Title: Wisconsin. Board of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection: Minutes and Agenda Materials of the Board and Advisory Councils
Inclusive Dates: 1915-1959, 1982-1991

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Board of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection

Call Number: Series 732

Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (20 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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Abstract:

Minutes of meetings of Department of Agriculture division heads, 1915-1922; of the Agriculture Commissioners, 1935-1937; and of the Board of Agriculture, 1938-1959, 1982-1983; and advisory councils to the Department, 1984-1985, relating to the appointments of agricultural committees, policy, regulations, procedures, and hearings and decisions concerning the inspection, grading, marketing and promotion of agricultural products, and the operation of the State Fair. No records are present for 1923-1934. The records received for this series from 1983 on consist of agendas, minutes, and related material from the advisory councils and the Board. The related agenda material includes copies of testimony before legislative committees, position statements, proposed legislative correspondence supporting or opposing proposed legislation, and administrator reports.

Language: English

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Formed in 1915, the Department of Agriculture merged in 1929, with the Department of Markets, the Dairy and Food Commission, State Treasury Agent, State Humane Agent, Live Stock Sanitary Board, and the State Fair Advisory Board to form the Department of Agriculture and Markets. In 1939, it was renamed the Department of Agriculture. Chapter 29, Laws of 1977, renamed the agency the Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection, reflecting additional responsibilities. The Department was responsible for protecting consumers through food and trade regulation; for protecting human health and agricultural resources through animal disease and plant pest eradication programs; and for providing marketing services designed to disseminate economic information to agricultural producers and processors, increase demand for Wisconsin agricultural products, and assist producers and processors in developing more effective and efficient marketing methods.

	Meeting Minutes
Box   1	1915-1922, 1937-1945
Box   2	1943-1959
	Board of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection agendas
Box   3	1982
Box   4	1983
Box   5	1984, February-October
Box   6	1984, November - 1985, June
Box   7	1985, August - 1986, March
Box   8	1986, April-December
Box   9	1987, January-July
Box   10	1987, August - 1988, February
Box   11	1988, March-August
Box   12	1988, September - 1989, January
Box   13	1989, February-June
Box   14	1989, July-December
Box   15	1990, January-June
Box   16	1990, July-December
Box   17	1991, January-May
Box   18	1991, June-November
Box   19	1991, December
Box   19-20	Advisory Councils, 1973-1989
Box   20	Agricultural Resource Management and Conservation, Committee on, 1990, July - 1991, July
Box   20	Agricultural Services, Committee on, 1983-1986; 1991, July
Box   20	Consumer Protection and Health, Committee on, 1982-1987
Box   20	Fruit and Vegetable Industry Practices, Committee on, 1988, September - 1989, April