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New Directions and Opportunities for Animal Sciences Research¹

Abstract

Development of colleges of agriculture and agricultural experiment stations, beginning with the passage of the Land-Grant Act in 1862, was based upon a public need. This need was developmental in nature: to develop a people who were primarily rural and an industry which was primarily agricultural. The ultimate success of the Land-Grant movement involved science, technology and economic growth. The results are well known, as illustrated by the plentiful supply of food in the United States. Technological improvements based upon the application of science to agriculture made possible in the 1940's an increase in food production per unit of land or per animal which heretofore had not been possible. (Durost, 1960).

The reasons for the magnificient contributions of the agricultural experiment station are less well known. (Rosenberg, 1971). Rosenberg implies that experiment station scientists had to balance the expectation of the agricultural public and at the same time develop a professional environment in which the scientist, using both pure and applied science, was able to provide an understanding of the principles required for the success of agricultural technology.

¹ Presented as part of a Symposium on Support for Research in Animal Sciences Annual Meeting of American Society of Animal Science, Davis, California, August 2, 1971.

² University of California, Davis 95616.