Missouri Historical Documents Browser: Agriculture

1842-1843

• State legislative Committee on Agriculture gave a short report in the journal for the 12th General Assembly. See pages 626-628.

1850

• Agricultural Census available. See microfilm at State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia.

1850-1851

• State legislative Committee on Agriculture report on hemp inspection in the journal for the 16th General Assembly. See pages 217-218.

1852-1853

• State legislative Committee on Agriculture report in the journal for the 17th General Assembly. See pages 273-282.

1854

• Report of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Fair of the Missouri State Agricultural Society
• The same report is available in the journal for the 18th General Assembly. See pages 339-373.

1860

• Agricultural Census available. See microfilm at State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia.

1863-64

• State Board of Agriculture Annual Reports

1865-1872

• State Board of Agriculture Annual Reports
• 1870 Agricultural Census available. See microfilm at State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia.

1873-1879

• State Board of Agriculture Annual Reports, 1873-1877 and 1878-1879 also available in Hathi Trust

1880-1914

• State Board of Agriculture Annual Reports
• 1880 Agricultural Census available. See microfilm at State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia.
• Monthly Bulletin, (1901-1945).

1915-1922

• Monthly Bulletin
• Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report
• Missouri annual crop and livestock production, by counties, (1919-1940).
• Missouri Farm Census by Counties

1923-1940

• Missouri Farm Census by Counties
• Monthly Bulletin
• Missouri annual crop and livestock production, by counties, (1919-1940).
• Missouri Department of Agriculture Biennial Reports, 1933-present.

1941-1960

• Missouri annual crop and livestock production by counties
• Monthly Bulletin, until 1945.
• Missouri Department of Agriculture Biennial Reports
• Missouri Farm Census by Counties

1960-Present

• Missouri Department of Agriculture Biennial Reports
• Missouri crop and livestock production by counties and districts, 1960-1970.
• Missouri Farm Census by Counties, until 1965.
• Missouri Farm Facts, 1966-present.

Current

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At the time of reorganization in 1933, “In addition to consolidating and combining the duties and activities previously under the Board of Agriculture . . . . the 1933 Legislature transferred the (a) ‘egg licensing and inspection law’ and (b) the ‘ice cream permit and inspection law’ from the former Food and Drug Department (volumes for 1912-1916 and 1917  available in Hathi Trust) to the new State Department of Agriculture.”¹

The organizational structure as of 1933 with the reorganization, was as follows² :

-The Governor of Missouri
---Commissioner of Agriculture
------The State Department of Agriculture
----------Feed Officer
----------State Veterinarian
----------Assistant Commissioner
----------Plant Law
----------State Fair

For more information, see the history page on the MO Department of Agriculture website.

Sources:

1. Official Manual of the State of Missouri [1933-34] page 615.
2. Ibid., page 616.

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