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1868 |
formation of the Agricultural Division |
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1881 |
formation of the School of Agriculture |
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1888 |
Establishment of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station |
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1907 |
formation of the Agronomy Department - Henry Scudder is head |
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1909 |
formation of the Seed Testing Laboratory |
1909 |
formation of the Division of Drainage and Irrigation |
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1914 |
Specialization in soil irrigation and drainage is provided |
| 1916 |
formation of the Farm Crops Department George Hyslop is Department head
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1916 |
Department of Agronomy become the Department of Farm Crops (Hyslop), Soils and Farm Management (Scudder), Drainage & Irrigation (Powers), and Farm Mechanics (Gilmour). |
1916 |
Division of Drainage and Irrigation changed to being a Department. W.L. Powers is Department head
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1918 |
Department of Soils & Farm Management split. Scudder head of Farm Management. Soils and Drainage & Irrigation combined into Dept. of Soils. Deptartment head W.L. Powers |
| 1929 |
Hyslop Agronomy Farm was acquired |
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| 1943 |
Donald Hill is Department head
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| 1954 |
Seed Testing Laboratory was taken over by the state of Oregon |
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1952 |
H.B. (Ace) Cheney is Department head
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| 1959 |
Ritchie Cowan is Department head
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| 1963 |
The Schmidt Farm was acquired |
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1960 |
name changed to Department of Soil Science |
| 1971 |
name changed to Agronomic Crop Science Department |
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| 1976 |
E.E. Hardin is Department head
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| 1977 |
name changed to Department of Crop Science |
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| 1977 |
Dale Moss is Department head
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1978 |
Benno Warkentin is Department head
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| 1984 |
E.E. Hardin is Department head
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| 1985 |
Sheldon Ladd is Department head
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1990 |
Departments of Crop Science and Soil Science were merged -- Sheldon Ladd is Department head
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2000 |
Russ Karow is Department head
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