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
		2000	Russ Karow is Department head