Oregon's Agricultural Progress Magazine, 1953-2016

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Processing Information:

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In this collection, the term “gypsy” refers to the “Asian gypsy moth” or “gypsy moth,” a group of invasive moth species that includes Lymantria dispar dispar, Lymantria dispar asiatica, L. d. japonica, L. albescens, L. umbrosa, and L. postalba. In 2021, the Entomological Society of America (ESA) voted to change the common names, and in 2022, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced new names for these species. Lymantria dispar dispar is now known as the “spongy moth,” and the rest are now the “flighted spongy moth complex.” There are no references to this term in the finding aid, but it does appear in materials that have been scanned and uploaded to Oregon Digital.

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[Date of Acknowledgement: November 2024]

Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station
Oregon State University. Extension and Experiment Station Communications

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.

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