Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine, 1953-2016

Collection Overview

Title: Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine, 1953-2016

ID: PUB 006-22a

Primary Creator: Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station

Extent: 1.0 cubic feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine is arranged in 4 series: 1. Individual Issues, 1953-2016; 2. Bound Volumes, 1958-1974; 3. Research Publications Supplement, 1984-1986; and 4. Website, 2016.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

Abstract

Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine is a report to the taxpayers of Oregon from Oregon State University's Agricultural Experiment Station demonstrating how agriculture contributes to the economy, environment, and social structure of Oregon and the world. The print magazine was first published in 1953.

Items from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

Scope and Content Notes

Oregon’s Agricultural Progress magazine is a report to the taxpayers of Oregon from Oregon State University’s Agricultural Experiment Station. Through engaging stories and photographs, the magazine shows how agriculture contributes to the economy, environment, and social structure of Oregon and the world. Oregon’s Agricultural Progress is presented as a print magazine, a multi-media online magazine, and an app for tablets. Extension and Experiment Station Communications produces the magazine in all its forms.

The magazine explores a wide range of public issues pertaining to food systems, ecosystems, water, innovations, economics, health, and people from all regions of Oregon. In addition to agricultural topics pertaining to farming and ranching in Oregon, Oregon's Agricultural Progress includes articles on the nursery industry and ornamental horticulture, flea prevention in pets, chemical and environmental hazards, pesticides, sport fishing, seafood and fisheries, nutrition, international agriculture, and the wine industry in Oregon.

In addition to the print magazine, this archival collection includes the multi-media online magazine which is captured annually using Archive-It. Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive for harvest and preservation of digital content presented online.

Items from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

Biographical / Historical Notes

Oregon's Agricultural Progress began publication in 1953. Two to four issues have been published per year since that time. As of 2017, the magazine is published twice per calendar year -- in the winter and summer. The Fall 2003 issue of the magazine includes a retrospective article about the first 50 years of Oregon's Agricultural Progress.

The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was established under the provisions of the federal Hatch Act of 1887, which provided grants of $15,000 to each U.S. state and territory for experimentation in the "principles and applications of agricultural science." Agricultural experimentation began at Oregon Agricultural College in 1888 under Edgar Grimm, the Station's first director, and in 1889 state legislation was approved formally establishing the Experiment Station.

Author: Elizabeth Nielsen

Administrative Information

More Extent Information: 3 boxes; 1.1 Gbytes

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The printed magazine was received on distribution from the 1960s through 2016. Annual capture of the website began in 2016.

Related Materials: The Agricultural Experiment Station (RG 025) and Extension Service (RG 111) Records provide extensive documentation of the impact of agriculture and agricultural research in Oregon. The Extension and Experiment Station Communications Records (RG 069) include materials on the development and distribution of Experiment Station and Extension publications. The Special Collections and Archives Research Center holds dozens of collections of university records, faculty papers, organizational records, photographs, maps, and publications documenting agriculture and agricultural research in Oregon.

Preferred Citation: Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine (PUB 006-22a), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Creators

People, Places, and Topics

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Oregon.
Agriculture--Oregon--Periodicals
Agriculture--Oregon.
Agriculture--Research--Oregon.
Coastal ecology--Oregon.
Coastal zone management--Oregon.
Fisheries--Oregon.
Food industry and trade--Oregon.
Food security--Oregon.
Natural Resources
Oregon State College--Faculty.
Oregon State University--Faculty.
University History
Water--Oregon.

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Individual Issues, 1953-2016

Series 1 consists of individual, unbound issues of the magazine, beginning with the first published magazine in Fall 1953. Several individual issues from the 1950s and 1960s are missing from this series. All issues of the magazine from 1953 to the present are available online in Oregon Digital.

Box-Folder 1.01: 1953-1959

Item 1: Fall 1953
Item 2: Spring 1954
Item 3: Fall 1954
Item 4: Winter 1955
Item 5: Spring 1955
Item 6: Summer 1955
Item 7: Fall 1955
Item 8: Winter 1956
Item 9: Spring 1956
Item 10: Summer 1956
Item 11: Spring 1957
Item 12: Summer 1957
Item 13: Winter 1958
Item 14: Winter 1959
Item 15: Spring 1959

Box-Folder 1.02: 1960-1965

Item 1: Winter 1960
Item 2: Summer 1960
Item 3: Fall 1960
Item 4: Winter 1961
Item 5: Spring 1961
Item 6: Summer 1962
Item 7: Winter 1963
Item 8: Fall 1963
Item 9: Spring 1965
Item 10: Summer 1965

Box-Folder 1.03: 1966-1969

Item 1: Winter 1966-1967
Item 2: Spring-Summer 1967
Item 3: Winter 1967-1968
Item 4: Spring 1968
Item 5: Summer 1968
Item 6: Winter 1969
Item 7: Spring 1969
Item 8: Summer 1969

Box-Folder 1.04: 1970-1974

Item 1: Winter 1970
Item 2: Summer 1970
Item 3: Fall 1970
Item 4: Spring 1971
Item 5: Fall 1971
Item 6: Winter 1972
Item 7: Spring 1972
Item 8: Summer 1972
Item 9: Fall 1972
Item 10: Winter 1973
Item 11: Spring 1973
Item 12: Summer 1973
Item 13: Fall 1973
Item 14: Winter 1974
Item 15: Spring 1974
Item 16: Summer 1974
Item 17: Fall 1974

Box-Folder 1.05: 1975-1977

Item 1: Winter 1975
Item 2: Spring-Summer 1975
Item 3: Fall 1975
Item 4: Winter 1976
Item 5: Spring 1976
Item 6: Summer 1976
Item 7: Fall 1976
Item 8: Winter 1977
Item 9: Spring 1977
Item 10: Summer 1977
Item 11: Fall 1977

Box-Folder 1.06: 1978-1979

Item 1: Winter 1978: Mis-labeled as Winter 1977.
Item 2: Spring 1978
Item 3: Summer 1978
Item 4: Fall 1978
Item 5: Winter 1979
Item 6: Spring 1979
Item 7: Summer 1979
Item 8: Fall 1979

Box-Folder 1.07: 1980-1983

Item 1: Winter 1980
Item 2: Spring 1980
Item 3: Summer 1980
Item 4: Fall 1980
Item 5: Winter 1981
Item 6: Spring 1981: Annual index issue.
Item 7: Summer 1981
Item 8: Fall 1981
Item 9: Winter 1982
Item 10: Spring-Summer 1982
Item 11: Fall 1982 - Winter 1983
Item 12: Spring 1983
Item 13: Summer 1983
Item 14: Fall 1983

Box-Folder 1.08: 1984-1987

Item 1: Winter 1984
Item 2: Spring-Summer 1984
Item 3: Fall 1984
Item 4: Winter 1985
Item 5: Spring-Summer 1985
Item 6: Spring 1986
Item 7: Summer 1986
Item 8: Fall 1986 - Winter 1987
Item 9: Spring-Summer 1987

Box-Folder 1.09: 1988-1989

Item 1: Winter-Spring 1988
Item 2: Summer 1988
Item 3: Fall 1988 - Winter 1989
Item 4: Spring-Summer 1989
Item 5: Fall 1989

Box-Folder 1.10: 1990-1993

Item 1: Winter 1990
Item 2: Spring-Summer 1990
Item 3: Fall 1990 - Winter 1991
Item 4: Spring-Summer 1991
Item 5: Fall 1991 - Winter 1992
Item 6: Spring 1992
Item 7: Summer-Fall 1992
Item 8: Winter-Spring 1993
Item 9: Summer-Fall 1993

Box-Folder 2.1: 1994-1997

Item 1: Winter-Spring 1994
Item 2: Summer-Fall 1994
Item 3: Winter 1995
Item 4: Fall 1995
Item 5: Spring 1996
Item 6: Fall 1996
Item 7: Winter 1997
Item 8: Spring-Summer 1997
Item 9: Fall 1997

Box-Folder 2.2: 1998-2002

Item 1: Spring-Summer 1998
Item 2: Fall-Winter 1998
Item 3: Spring 1999
Item 4: Winter 2000
Item 5: Spring-Summer 2000
Item 6: Fall 2000 - Winter 2001
Item 7: Summer-Fall 2001
Item 8: Winter-Spring 2002

Box-Folder 2.3: 2003-2005

Item 1: Winter 2003
Item 2: Summer 2003
Item 3: Fall 2003
Item 4: Summer 2004
Item 5: Fall 2004
Item 6: Summer 2005
Item 7: Fall 2005

Box-Folder 2.4: 2006-2009

Item 1: Spring 2006
Item 2: Fall 2006
Item 3: Summer 2007
Item 4: Fall 2007
Item 5: Summer 2008
Item 6: Winter 2009
Item 7: Fall 2009

Box-Folder 2.5: 2010-2013

Item 1: Summer 2010
Item 2: Winter 2011
Item 3: Fall 2011
Item 4: Summer 2012
Item 5: Winter 2013

Box-Folder 2.6: 2014-2016

Item 1: Winter 2014
Item 2: Summer 2014
Item 3: Winter 2015
Item 4: Summer 2015
Item 5: Winter 2016
Item 6: Summer 2016

Series 2: Bound Volumes, 1958-1974

Series 2 consists of 2 bound volumes of the Oregon's Agricultural Progress beginning with the Winter 1958 issue (v. 5, no. 1) and continuing through Winter 1974 (v. 20, no. 3). The bound volumes include reprints of articles from some issues of the magazine that were printed for separate distribution.

Box-Folder 3.1: Bound Volume for 1958-1962
Box-Folder 3.2: Bound Volume for 1963-1974

Series 3: Research Publications Supplement, 1984-1986

Series 3 consists of annual supplements to Oregon's Agricultural Progress that list publications by the departments of the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences and by branch Agricultural Experiment Stations. These include circulars, bulletins, reports, and papers. All of the items in this series are available online in Oregon Digital.

Box-Folder 3.3: 1984-1986

Item 1: 1984 Research Publications
Item 2: 1985 Research Publications
Item 3: 1986 Research Publications

Series 4: Website, 2016

Series 4 consists of the multi-media online magazine as captured annually using Archive-It. The captured site can be viewed here. It consists of the Summer 2016 issue of the online magazine, previous issues from Spring 1996 to Winter 2016, and some of the associated video content.

Sub-Series 1: Captured videos

Item 1: Personal Passive Samplers with Kim Anderson, Professor of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, 2016: Watch this video.
Item 2: Kitten Training and Socialization Classes, 2016: Watch this video.
Item 3: Emily Ho, Professor, Moore Famnily Center Endowed Director, 2016: Watch this video.
Item 4: Zebrafish Treadmill at Sinnhuber Aquatic Lab, 2016: Watch this video.