College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences papers 1970s-1990s

University of Minnesota. College of Agriculture

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Agricultural education was provided for in the organization of the University by the Minnesota territorial legislature in 1851. When the first state legislature convened in 1858, one of the items approved during the inaugural session was an unfunded proposal to establish an “Agricultural Experiment Farm and Agricultural College” at Glencoe. After a decade of inaction at the Glencoe site, the proposed college became part of the overall plan for the University of Minnesota, which co...

University of Minnesota. Dept. of Agriculture.

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University of Minnesota. Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics

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University of Minnesota. College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences

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Agricultural education has been an integral part of the University of Minnesota since its inception. The original University charter, passed by the Territorial Legislature in 1851, named a Department of Agriculture as one of the five major divisions of the University. Instruction in agriculture did not commence until 1869 with the establishment of the College of Agriculture. In 1871, it became an independent unit, the Department of Agriculture. The name was changed to th...