In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
On Oct. 11, 1941, the first wheels of Maytag Blue Cheese were formed when production of the cheese…
In 1940, the FDA transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Federal Security Agency, with Walter G….
In 1936, the USDA’s 1936 and 1937 Yearbooks of Agriculture not only sound the first alarm over the…
In 1933, the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State was established as the first research and consulting institute of…
In 1930, the name of the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration was shortened to Food and Drug Administration…
In 1930, the U.S. Congress passed the Plant Patent Act, recognizing for the first time that plant breeders’…
In 1930, Garst & Thomas Hybrid Corn Company was founded in Coon Rapids, Iowa, and from 1930-1945, U.S….
In 1929, the John W. Beaumont Memorial Tower on the Michigan State University (MSU) campus was completed. The…
In 1928, Embryo rescue (ER) was first used to obtain hybrids from wide crosses in crop plants known…
In 1928, Dr. Georgy Karpechenko at the botanical institute at Detskoje Selo, in Russia crossed radishes and cabbages,…
In 1927, George Washington Carver invented a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans, and was issued…
In 1927 an alliance was formed between Roswell Garst and Henry Wallace to develop and promote hybrid seed…
In 1927, The Danforth Foundation was a private, independent foundation established in 1927 by William H. Danforth founder…
On Nov. 14, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents filed the charter for the Wisconsin Alumni…
On Jun. 22, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents officially established the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation…
In 1923, more than 50,000 foreign plants had been introduced into the United States since 1862 by the…
On Jul. 8, 1921, the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association (Land O’Lakes) was founded in Saint Paul as a…
In 1920’s, Oregon State University (OSU) professor of horticulture Ernest H. Wiegand developed the modern method of manufacturing…
On Jan. 20, 1912, a group of 11 northern Illinois farmers, bankers and county officials laid the foundation…
In 1911, Lue Gim Gong, aka the ‘Citrus Wizard of Florida’, successfully produced a new orange hybrid, known…
In 1910, the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine’s first building, Connaway Hall, was built to house…
On Apr. 1, 1909, Arkansas State University was founded by Act 100 of the 37th Arkansas General Assembly….
In 1897, Lonza Electricity Works was established on the banks of river Lonza in Switzerland. The electricity was…
On Feb. 27, 1906, Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle was published. The book gave graphic descriptions of the…
In 1905, the Arkansas Industrial University (University of Arkansas) college of agriculture was created. Classes began at the…
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In 1904, Charles Van Hise, president of the University of Wisconsin, declared that ‘the beneficent influence of the…
In 1903, the nation’s first cooperative agricultural extension program was launched when Iowa State professor Perry Holden, a…
In 1902, Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., a chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced the formation of…
In 1897, the tea Importation Act passed, providing for Customs inspection of all tea entering U.S. ports, at…