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===History=== | ===History=== | ||
On May 15, 1862, [[Abraham Lincoln]] established the independent Department of Agriculture through the [[Morrill Land-Grant Acts|Morrill Act]] to be headed by a commissioner without [[Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet]] status. Staffed by only eight employees, the department was charged with conducting research and development related to "agriculture, [[rural development]], [[aquaculture]] and human nutrition in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms".<ref>{{Cite web |title=7 U.S. Code § 2201 – Establishment of Department |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/2201 |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=LII / Legal Information Institute |language=en}}</ref> Agriculturalist [[Isaac Newton (agriculturalist)|Isaac Newton]] was appointed to be the first commissioner.<ref>12 Stat. 387, now codified at [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/07/2201- 7 U.S.C. § 2201].</ref> Lincoln called it the "people's department", since over half of the nation, at the time, was directly or indirectly involved in [[agriculture]] or [[agribusiness]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Salvador |first1=Ricardo |last2=Bittman |first2=Mark |title=Opinion: Goodbye, U.S.D.A., Hello, Department of Food and Well-Being |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/usda-agriculture-secretary-biden.html |access-date=10 December 2020 |work= | On May 15, 1862, [[Abraham Lincoln]] established the independent Department of Agriculture through the [[Morrill Land-Grant Acts|Morrill Act]] to be headed by a commissioner without [[Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet]] status. Staffed by only eight employees, the department was charged with conducting research and development related to "agriculture, [[rural development]], [[aquaculture]] and human nutrition in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms".<ref>{{Cite web |title=7 U.S. Code § 2201 – Establishment of Department |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/2201 |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=LII / Legal Information Institute |language=en}}</ref> Agriculturalist [[Isaac Newton (agriculturalist)|Isaac Newton]] was appointed to be the first commissioner.<ref>12 Stat. 387, now codified at [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/07/2201- 7 U.S.C. § 2201].</ref> Lincoln called it the "people's department", since over half of the nation, at the time, was directly or indirectly involved in [[agriculture]] or [[agribusiness]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Salvador |first1=Ricardo |last2=Bittman |first2=Mark |title=Opinion: Goodbye, U.S.D.A., Hello, Department of Food and Well-Being |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/usda-agriculture-secretary-biden.html |access-date=10 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=4 December 2020}}</ref> | ||
In 1868, the department moved into the new Department of Agriculture Building in Washington, designed by famed D.C. architect Adolf Cluss. Located on the National Mall between 12th Street and 14th SW, the department had offices for its staff and the entire width of the Mall up to B Street NW to plant and experiment with plants.<ref>Evening Star – June 18, 1868 – page 4 – column 4</ref> | In 1868, the department moved into the new Department of Agriculture Building in Washington, designed by famed D.C. architect Adolf Cluss. Located on the National Mall between 12th Street and 14th SW, the department had offices for its staff and the entire width of the Mall up to B Street NW to plant and experiment with plants.<ref>Evening Star – June 18, 1868 – page 4 – column 4</ref> | ||