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The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise - A System in Transition (Paperback)
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The State Agricultural Experiment Stations have played a
fundamental role in the development of science and agriculture in
the United States. From their inception in 1887, the experiment
stations have attempted to wed basic research with practical
application and have helped institutionalize a utilitarian approach
to agricultural science. Agricultural research and the new
technology it helped to generate were major factors in the
transformation of U.S. agriculture into a high technology,
mechanized, science-based industry. Moreover, the experiment
stations, as the first large-scale, publicly supported scientific
research institutions in the United States, have also long been
models for scientific institutions both here and abroad. Compiled
for the 1987 centennial of the State Agricultural Experiment
Stations, this volume critically examines past performance, current
issues, and future directions for public agricultural research in
the United States. Each of the authors, drawn from disciplines as
diverse as philosophy and agronomy, focuses on a central concern
for the scientific enterprise. Issues include priority setting,
maintaining and promoting disciplinary and interdisciplinary
effectiveness, supporting higher education for agriculture, and
efficacious dissemination of research findings. By setting these
issues in their historical and philosophical context, the volume
suggests new approaches for meeting the continuing challenge to
achieve equity, efficiency, sustainability, flexibility,
conservation, and consistency with other objectives of U.S.
society.
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