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'Agriculture today is a big industry, requiring the co-operation of scientists, engineers, chemists and government officials to help ordinary farmers. The film shows how Britain is training farmers and specialists at one of the many agricultural colleges in Britain for the future needs of this great industry.'
Seale-Hayne College, 3 miles from Newton Abbot, was an agricultural college in Devon, England, which operated from 1919 to 2005. It was established in accordance with the will of Charles Seale Hayne (1833-1903), a Liberal politician who was a Devon land-owner. The college was built between 1912 and 1914, but its opening was delayed by the start of WW1. It was the only agricultural college in the United Kingdom whose buildings were purpose designed and built.
Oxford: The Institute of Agricultural Economics was established, as the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, with the aid of a Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Development Commission grant in 1913. Until 1945 it formed a part of the School of Rural Economy. An Advisory Sub-Committee of the Committee for Rural Economy was established in June 1912 to be responsible for the selection of the Director of the Institute and to supervise the teaching, examination and research of agricultural economics in the University.
There are a number of common farming practices in this film that are shown but not discussed, such as pasteurisation and sheep dipping.
Seale-Hayne College, 3 miles from Newton Abbot, was an agricultural college in Devon, England, which operated from 1919 to 2005. It was established in accordance with the will of Charles Seale Hayne (1833-1903), a Liberal politician who was a Devon land-owner. The college was built between 1912 and 1914, but its opening was delayed by the start of WW1. It was the only agricultural college in the United Kingdom whose buildings were purpose designed and built.
During the war it served as a training centre for Land Girls, and in 1918 and 1919 it operated as a military neurasthenic hospital for the treatment of soldiers suffering from shell shock. The first students arrived in 1920. During WW2 the college was used for the training of the second Women's Land Army.
After the war the college was significantly expanded, and by 1986 there were over 1,000 students. In 1989 the college merged with Plymouth Polytechnic to form the Seale-Hayne Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Land Use, Polytechnic South West. (Polytechnic South West became the University of Plymouth in 1992). In 2005 the university closed the college and staff and students were transferred to Plymouth.
1928-44 Agricultural Economics Research Institute
1945-70 Institute for Research into Agricultural Economics
1970-86 Institute of Agricultural Economics
Horticultural science research in the early twentieth century exhibited marked diversity and horticulture included bees, chickens, pigeons, pigs, goats, rabbits and hares besides plants. Horticultural science was characterised by various tensions arising from efforts to demarcate it from agriculture and by internecine disputes between government organisations such as the Board of Agriculture, the Board of Education and the Development Commission for control of the innovative state system of horticultural research and education that developed after 1909. Both fundamental and applied science research played an important role in this development.
Efforts made by the new Horticultural Department of the Board of Agriculture and by scientists and commercial growers raised the academic status of horticultural science and the professional status of its practitioners.
Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour, OBE (16 July 1898 – 16 January 1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the institution now known as the University of Reading. At the age of 17, she enrolled, as one of the first women students to do so, at Reading University College for the Diploma of Agriculture. After obtaining her Diploma in 1917, she completed a year's practical farming, living in 'digs' at 102 Basingstoke Road, Reading. During this time she worked at Manor Farm ploughing fields. The Living Soil (1943) is regarded as a seminal classic in organic agriculture and the organic movement. The book is based on the initial findings of the first three years of the Haughley Experiment, the first formal, side-by-side farm trial to compare organic and chemical-based farming, started in 1939 by Balfour (with Alice Debenham), on two adjoining farms in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England.
Top ten ranking agriculture, Forestry & Food universities in the Guardian University Guide 2021:
Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour, OBE (16 July 1898 – 16 January 1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the institution now known as the University of Reading. At the age of 17, she enrolled, as one of the first women students to do so, at Reading University College for the Diploma of Agriculture. After obtaining her Diploma in 1917, she completed a year's practical farming, living in 'digs' at 102 Basingstoke Road, Reading. During this time she worked at Manor Farm ploughing fields. The Living Soil (1943) is regarded as a seminal classic in organic agriculture and the organic movement. The book is based on the initial findings of the first three years of the Haughley Experiment, the first formal, side-by-side farm trial to compare organic and chemical-based farming, started in 1939 by Balfour (with Alice Debenham), on two adjoining farms in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England.
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- Aberystwyth University IBERS
- Askham Bryan College
- Berkshire College of Agriculture
- Bicton College
- Brooksby Agricultural College (Melton Mowbray)
- Capel Manor College
- Clinterty Agricultural College
- College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise, Northern Ireland (CAFRE)
- Downton Agricultural College
- Easton & Otley College
- Hadlow College
- Harper Adams University
- Hartpury College (an associate faculty of the University of the West of England)
- Kingston Maurward College
- Lackham College (part of Wiltshire College)
- Moulton College
- Myerscough College
- Newton Rigg College (part of Askham Bryan College)
- Oaklands College
- Plumpton College
- Reaseheath College
- Rodbaston College (part of South Staffordshire College)
- Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester
- Scotland's Rural College (SRC)
- Scottish Agricultural College (SAC)
- Shuttleworth College (part of Bedford College)
- Sparsholt College Hampshire
- University of Nottingham
- University of Reading
- Writtle College
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