Preface by T. W. Schultz. Under contract with Iowa State Press for a revision, 2004. A 9-chapter book (about 200 pages) that documents the evolution, development, and economic impacts of public agricultural research, especially the state agricultural experiment stations over the past 150 years....

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This 474-page book provides much greater detail and documentation supporting the book "Science for Agriculture." It is available through 10 university research libraries and the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD. Second printing 2000.

This paper examines the impact of public and private agricultural research andextension on agricultural total factor productivity at the state level. We test the hypothesis thatthe composition of agricultural experiment station funding—share of funding from impact offederal competitive grants...

This paper presents new econometric evidence on state government’s demand for resources to support local agricultural experiment station research. The econometric model consists of a complete-demand system covering four major resource sources, and it is fitted to annual observations on 48...