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WAERC
Western
Agricultural Economics Research Council
Western Agricultural
Economics Research Council Records
1947-1973
5 microfilm reels
The Western Agricultural Economics
Research Council (WAERC) Records document the activities of the Council which
was established in 1947 for the purpose of cultivating research relationships
in the field of agricultural economics with particular focus on issues facing
western states.
Materials inEnglish.
Historical Note:
The Western Agricultural Economics Research Council (WAERC) was
organized in 1947 under a memorandum of agreement between the agricultural
experiment stations of the eleven western states and the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture. The general purpose
of the Council was to facilitate, strengthen, and integrate "research
relationships in the field of agricultural economics, with particular reference
to those economic and marketing problems of special concern to the western
states."
During the early years, the council concentrated its efforts on
evaluating research projects and making recommendations for funding of regional
projects. In the late 1970s or early 1980s several changes occurred: The name
was changed to the Western Agricultural Economics Council (WAERC). The Council
ceased to be sanctioned and supported by the Western Directors of Experiment
Stations, but department chairs met under their own auspices. The Council
addressed questions of research, teaching, and extension in agricultural
economics as well as support for agricultural economics work and overall
departmental organization and management.
These records include allocations and authorizations, budgets, committee
records, correspondence, and minutes.
Collection open for research.
Western Agricultural Economics Research Council Records, Oregon State
University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
These materials were microfilmed on contract in 1974 during the time
that Oliver Wendell Holmes, a courtesy faculty member at Oregon State
University, was secretary of the Council. See central file for additional
information.
See the College of Agricultural Sciences Records (RG 158) (series 3) for
additional materials pertaining to WAERC.
United
States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Western
Agricultural Economics Council
Agriculture--Economic
aspects--West (U.S.)
Agriculture and state--West
(U.S.)
Agriculture
Colleges and Universities
Water
and Water Rights
California
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Washington (State)
1
1
Allocations
1
2
Authorizations
1
3-11
Budgets
1949-1970
1
12
Commercial Agriculture
Committee
1
13-14
Committee on Human and Community
Resource Development
1
15-20
Farm Management
Committee
1952-1968
1
21-22
Marketing Research
Committee
1956-1970
2
22-28
Marketing Research
Committee
1956-1970
2
29
Committee on Economics of Natural
Resources
2
30
Outdoor Recreation
2
31-35
Range Committee
1952-1970
2
36-42
Water Committee
1950-1968
2
43
Correspondence
1947-1973
3
44-49
Correspondence
1947-1953
3
50
WE-59, Economic Study of Demand
for Outdoor Recreation. Las Vegas meeting
23-24 March 1972
3
51
WE-61, Western Regional Research
Marketing. Las Vegas
2-4 December 1970
3
52
WE-62, Livestock
3
53
W-104
3
54
W-113
3
55
W-114
3
56
W-115
3
57
W-118
3
58
W-120
3
59
W-125
4
60-65
Council General
1948-1971
4
66-87
Council Minutes
1948-1972
5
88-91
Council Minutes
1948-1972
5
92-96
Research Proposals
1951-1966
5
97
Treasury
5
98
Western Directors
Meeting
April 1952
5
99-100
Writing Workshop
1952-1955