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Century of Service: The First 100 Years of the United States Department of Agriculture

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  • Baker, Gladys L.
  • Rasmussen, Wayne D.
  • Wiser, Vivian
  • Porter, Jane M.

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Excerpts from the report Foreword: Agriculture in the United States has progressed from an economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance in the space of a hundred years. This profound change may be measured in a number of ways. For example, less than 9 percent of our labor force is engaged in agriculture today, as compared with 20 to 40 percent in much of Western Europe, over 45 percent in the Soviet Union, and 70 to 80 percent in some parts of the world. Agriculture has contributed labor and capital to the other parts of the American economy, and has been a major force in our economic growth. Three laws adopted by this Nation in 1862—the act creating the Department of Agriculture, the Homestead Act, and the Morrill Land Grant College Act—have helped the American farmer make invaluable contributions to our agricultural productivity. Illustrations of contributions by the Department of Agriculture appear in After A Hundred Years: The Yearbook of Agriculture 1962. Other examples appear in this volume. However, the basic purpose of this history is to outline the Department's organizational development and its response to changing conditions—national and international, scientific and economic.

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  • Baker, Gladys L. & Rasmussen, Wayne D. & Wiser, Vivian & Porter, Jane M., 1963. "Century of Service: The First 100 Years of the United States Department of Agriculture," Miscellaneous Publications 316027, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersmp:316027
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.316027
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    1. Rasmussen, Wayne D. & Porter, Jane M., 1981. "Strategies For Dealing With World Hunger Post-World War Ii Policies," 1981 Annual Meeting, July 26-29, Clemson, South Carolina 279272, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    2. Henneberry, T. J., 2008. "Federal Entomology: Beginnings and Organizational Entities in the United States Department of Agriculture, 1854-2006, with Selected Research Highlights," Agricultural Information Bulletins 309846, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Vernon Ruttan, 1980. "Bureaucratic productivity: The case of agricultural research," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 35(5), pages 529-547, January.
    4. Glauber, Joseph W. & Effland, Anne, 2016. "United States agricultural policy: Its evolution and impact:," IFPRI discussion papers 1543, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    5. Patricia Allen, 1999. "Reweaving the food security safety net: Mediating entitlement and entrepreneurship," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 16(2), pages 117-129, June.
    6. Sharon Raszap Skorbiansky & Suzanne Thornsbury & Anne Effland, 2022. "Specialty crops and the farm bill," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 44(3), pages 1241-1260, September.

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