Economic research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has achieved its greatest recognition in periods when agriculture and farmers have experienced stress and change. In 1922 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) was set up in the Department to help rind solutions to the...

Current interest in experiences of World War II invites a report on the War Records Project of the Bureau, beginning with its establishment in the Department by the Secretary of Agriculture on December 31, 1941.