The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise

Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy

Foreword -- Preface -- Historical and Philosophical Context -- From State Chemistry to State Science: The Transformation of the Idea of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 1875–1887 -- Policy Conflicts in Agricultural Research: Historical Perspective and Today's Challenges -- The Value Measure in Public Agricultural Research -- The Moral Factor in Innovative Research -- Policy Science in the Land Grant Colleges: Implications of Recent Developments in Public Choice Theory and the Philosophy of Science -- Research Priority Setting -- The Dynamic Tension Between the Scientific Enterprise and the Political Process: Priority Setting in Agricultural Research -- The CSRS Scientist: A Role in Transition -- Research Funding and Priority Setting in State Agricultural Experiment Stations -- The Emerging Role of the Computer in Managing for Excellence -- Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research -- The Pretechnology Agricultural Sciences -- A Century of Periodic Research on Soil Conservation -- Development of an Interdisciplinary, Interagency Integrated Pest Management Project in the Western United States -- Commodity Studies -- A Comparative Study of Rice Research in California, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi -- Tradition and Innovation in Agriculture: A Comparison of Public and Private Development of Hybrid Corn -- History of Wheat Research at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station -- The Experiment Stations and Science Education -- The Supply of New Agricultural Scientists by U.S. Land Grant Universities: 1920–1979 -- The Contribution of U.S. Universities to Training Foreign Agricultural Scientists -- Dissemination and Impact of Experiment Station Science -- U.S. Agricultural Research and International Agricultural Research Centers: An Institutional Comparison -- The Interrelationships of Agricultural Research and Farm Structure -- Future Directions -- Toward a New Covenant for Agricultural Academe -- Research and Technology Transfer Linkages in American Agriculture -- Industry/Land Grant University Relationships in Transition -- Conclusion -- A Second-Century Agenda for State Agricultural Experiment Stations: A View from the Twenty-First Century