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.
The collection consists of release notices for plant species, dating from 1975 to 2000, plus meeting minutes of Washington State University Cooperative Extension's Cereal Variety Release Committee from 1997 to 2004.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Each box covers about five years, with the releases organized alphabetically within them. Box 1 covers 1975-1985, box 2 holds 1986-1991, box 3 holds 1992-1996, and box 4 holds 1997-2000. The Cereal Variety Release Committee minutes are in the back of box 4.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Agricultural Research Center Plant Variety Releases, 1975-2004 (UA2011-14)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by Sheila Brooks of the Agricultural Research Center on November 29, 2011 and retained as UA2011-14.
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