Finding Aid for Departmental Minutes, 1918, 1920-1933 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Departmental Minutes, 1918, 1920-1933

ID: 8/6/1

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Crop Sciences

Extent: 0.3 cubic feet

Arrangement: By type of meeting and chronologically thereunder

Subjects: Corn, Crops, Marketing, Plant Breeding, Soils, Soybeans

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Department of Agronomy Minutes, correspondence and reports of Agronomy Conferences (1918, 1920-27), Division Heads Conferences (1921-27), Soil Investigation Committee meetings (1922-23), Crop Conferences (1925-27) and Marketing Group meetings (1925-27) concerning departmental administrative procedures and operations, professional meetings and conferences, shows, courses, projects, experiment field techniques, soil plots, extension work, publications, soil studies, soil physics, soil biology, soil fertility, land use, soil survey work and county reports, fertilizers, phosphates, cropping systems, plant breeding, crop physiology, crop production, naming of corn, wheat and soybean strains, marketing and shipping associations and related subjects.

The Agronomy Department was established in 1899 as a division of the College of Agriculture.¹ The department is concerned with the utilizing of fertile soils to their fullest advantage, and with bettering the social and economic position of the owner and tiller of the soil.²

On May 11, 1995, the Board of Trustees approved the renaming and reorganization of the College. It was renamed the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences and several changes were made in the organization of departments and divisions.³ The Department of Agronomy, except for soil scientists, was combined with the Department of Plant Pathology to create the Department of Crop Sciences.⁴ The Department's areas of study are plant breeding and genetics, biotechnology and genetic engineering, crop evaluation, crop protection, plant pathology, design of field experiments, weeds and their control, and production and pathology of cereals, corn, soybeans, and forage crops.⁵ Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees are available through graduate study and course work.⁶

1. Richard G. Moores, Fields of Rich Toil, (Urbana: 1970), p. 235. n. 33 and p. 222. Board of Trustees Transactions, 20th Report, August 16, 1899, p. 140. See also Through the Years with the Department of Agronomy, Special Publication No. 1, University of Illinois College of Agriculture, May, 1960, p. 6.

2. Through the Years with the Department with the Department of Agronomy, p. 7.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 68th Report, May 11, 1995, p. 277-8.

4. University of Illinois, Faculty and Student Senate, Urbana-Champaign Senate, meeting minutes, March 27, 1995, EP 94.33, p. 35.

5. Programs of Study 2001-2003, p. 46.

6. Ibid., p. 221.

Corn
Crops
Marketing
Plant Breeding
Soils
Soybeans

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: October 16, 1963

Other Note: 1 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0806001.pdf

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