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The Department of Farm Organization and Management was created June 9, 1914, on the recommendation of Dean Eugene Davenport,
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.
The stated mission of the department "is to improve the economic and environmental well-being of producers, consumers, and families."
1. Transactions of the Board of Trustees, 27th Report, June 9, 1914, p. 766.
2. Transactions of the Board of Trustees, 35th Report, September 18, 1929, p. 356.
3. Transactions of the Board of Trustees, 36th Report, October 30, 1931, p. 461.
4. Transactions of the Board of Trustees, 37th Report, May 22, 1934, p. 526.
5. Board of Trustees Transactions, 68th Report, May 11, 1995, p. 277-8.
6. Board of Trustees Transactions, 68th Report, May 11, 1995, p. 277-8.; University of Illinois, Faculty and Student Senate, Urbana-Champaign Senate, meeting minutes, March 27, 1995, EP 94.33, p. 35; SEE Human and Community Development Department, University of Illinois Archives RG 8/11.
7. Programs of Study 2001-2003, p. 204.
8. Ibid., p. 204.
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Agricultural Economics and Farm Organization and Management (1927-32)
Departmental Seminar Minutes showing the date, time and place of meetings; the total number and names of graduate students, faculty and visitors in attendance; brief outlines or descriptions of the papers, book reviews, research progress reports or talks presented and discussed; the names and backgrounds of participants, and the name of the acting secretary taking the minutes. Major topics discussed include the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, Agricultural Adjustment Acts, federal farm adjustment and price policies and national economy recovery programs, banking, mortgages and farm foreclosures, cooperative marketing, crop insurance, farm management and cost accounting practices, farm organizations, freight rates and distribution costs, Illinois agriculture and horticulture, land use adjustments, land tenure and farm tenancy, marketing grain, livestock and fluid milk, rural sociology research trends, tariffs and their effect on farm prices and production, taxation, title and property law, types of farming and variations in crop yields, USDA bureaus, programs and research and the scope of agricultural economics as a research field. Ivan Wright (1922-24), Charles L. Stewart (1924-27, 1928-42) and Harold M. Case (1927-42) served as seminar chairmen. Prominent participants or visitors include James B. Andrews, Oliver E. Baker, Howard D. Doane, Harold W. Hannah, Paul E. Johnston, Gustav W. Kuhlman, David E. Lindstrom, Herbert W. Mumford, Martin L. Mosher, Lawrence W. Norton, Charles B. Shuman, Henry C. Taylor and Elmer J. Working.