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Agricultural Research Center Washington State Commodity Commission Reports, 1976-2011

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Washington State University. Agricultural Research Center
Title
Agricultural Research Center Washington State Commodity Commission Reports
Dates
1976-2011 (inclusive)
Quantity
8 Linear feet of shelf space, (20 Boxes)
Collection Number
Archives 361 (collection)
Summary
Washington State University agricultural project proposals hoping for research funding from state commodity commissions, as well as research progress reports for the funded projects.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English.
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Historical Note

The Washington State University Agriculture Research Center (ARC) is a part of WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS). The ARC began in 1892 as the Washington Agricultural Experiment Station, then an element of the Washington Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of Science, now Washington State University. Located near Pullman on a farm donated to the state, the station became the site of agricultural instruction and experimental work conducted by the staff of the station and the faculty of the College of Agriculture. It soon extended to branch stations across the state. In 1946 it became part of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, and in 1965 it was integrated into the newly-organized Agricultural Research Center (ARC) of the College of Agriculture.

Washington State’s commodity commissions are “industry-funded state agencies that promote and fund crop research and/or the marketing of crops.” The commissions are considered governmental agencies as they are state-mandated, but they are governed and funded by growers under the supervision of the state Director of Agriculture. The oldest Washington commodity commission, the Washington Apple Commission, dates to 1937.

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Content Description

The collection consists primarily of research proposals for agricultural projects seeking funding, and then of research progress reports for funded projects. Usually both the proposals and progress reports for a given year are combined in one document. Documents date from 1976 to 2011. Each report is addressed to one of the Washington State commodity commissions; a very few series may be addressed to other commissions.

The research covered in these documents generally comes from subsidiary departments to Washington State University’s College of Agriculture (later CAHE, still later CAHNRS).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions apply. Some materials were originally noted as privileged documents not for republication, but all such restrictions in this collection have expired.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]

WSU Agricultural Research Center’s Commodity Commission Reports, 1976-2011 (Archives 361)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically in series by the agricultural commodity covered in each report. A few series contain other types of reports besides the proposal and progress reports; those other report types will be in a subseries after the proposal and progress documents. Within all these subseries, materials are ordered chronologically. At the end of the larger series are a few small series which are not limited to one specific commodity; these are arranged by the committee they report to.

Acquisition Information

The majority of the documents in this collection were donated by the Washington State University Agricultural Research Center (ARC) to the WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) on July 28, 2011, and accessioned as UA2011-09. An ongoing file reorganization project in the ARC meant a slow steady stream of these continued coming in to MASC through April of 2015, when the project finished. All these materials were treated as part of the one initial accession (UA2011-09). Some materials from this accession were filed in the WSU Publications collections, and one small set of loose papers related to Horse Heaven Irrigation will be processed separately.

Processing Note

The collection was processed in April and May of 2016 by University Archivist Mark O’English.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Finding aid prepared by Mark O'English.
2016

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