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Historical Timeline of the Department of Crop and Soil Science
Crops
Combined
Soils
1868
formation of the Agricultural Division
1881
formation of the School of Agriculture
1888
Establishment of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station
1907
formation of the Agronomy Department - Henry Scudder is head
1909
formation of the Seed Testing Laboratory
1909
formation of the Division of Drainage and
Irrigation
1914
Specialization in soil irrigation and drainage
is provided
1916
formation of the Farm Crops Department
George Hyslop is Department head
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
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
1943
Donald Hill is Department
head
1954
Seed Testing Laboratory was taken over
by the state of Oregon
1952
H.B. (Ace) Cheney
is Department head
1959
Ritchie Cowan is
Department head
1963
The Schmidt Farm was acquired
1960
name changed to Department of Soil Science
1971
name changed to Agronomic Crop Science
Department
1976
E.E. Hardin is Department
head
1977
name changed to Department of Crop Science
1977
Dale Moss is Department
head
1978
Benno Warkentin is
Department head
1984
E.E. Hardin is Department
head
1985
Sheldon Ladd is Department
head
1990
Departments of Crop Science and Soil Science were merged
-- Sheldon Ladd is Department head