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The origins of the FSA start with several earlier agencies starting in the 1930s, with several programs and agencies developed during the Great Depression.The Resettlement Administration of 1935 was an early attempt to relocate entire farming communities to more profitable locations, but this was ultimately abandoned as it proved too controversial, expensive, and showed no signs of success. [3]
The Kuhrt Ranch in Shermanville Township in Sherman County, Kansas, near Edson, Kansas, dates from 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] Its main house was built around 1907 and was modified in 1934. It is termed to be Spanish Colonial-inspired. [2]
The Rise of the Wheat State: A History of Kansas Agriculture, 1861- 1986 (1987) 16 topical essays by experts. online; Hurt, R. Douglas. "The Agricultural and Rural History of Kansas." Kansas History 2004 27(3): 194–217. ISSN 0149-9114 Fulltext: in Ebsco; Larson, Henrietta M. The wheat market and the farmer in Minnesota, 1858–1900 (1926 ...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is a state agency in Kansas, responsible for the state's public health system, medical records, and environmental sustainability. [ 1 ] References
The other preserves in Kansas, are the 17-square-mile (44 km 2) Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in northern Chase County near Strong City, [7] [8] the Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie Preserve east of Cassoday, "the Prairie Chicken Capital of the World", [9] and the Konza Prairie, which is managed as a tallgrass prairie biological research ...
Collinsville is a city in Rogers and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and a part of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area.It was named for Dr. A. H. Collins, an engineer and surveyor who first surveyed the land that became this community. [4]
Oil discovered at Red Fork, near Tulsa, starting oil boom. [2] [6] George D. Blakey becomes the fourth mayor. [7] 1902 – Tulsa chartered as a city. [4] 1903 Telephone system sold to Indian Territory Telephone Company. Original 3-story Brady Hotel constructed. George Mowbray becomes Mayor of Tulsa (1903-4) [7] 1904 Tulsa annexed North Tulsa. [11]
The agency was redesignated as the Economic Research Service by secretarial order of October 1, 1981. [4] Under the Trump administration, the ERS and another USDA agency, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture were directed to move from the USDA's headquarters in Washington, D.C. to the Kansas City metropolitan area. Two-thirds of the ...