Our Purpose Is to Serve: The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station

A lively and insightful account of the station's advances in agricultural research.David Danbom's "Our Purpose is to Serve" is a probing, insightful and lively history of the first hundred years of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. The NDAES began in 1890 as one of a national network of state research facilities created by Congress in the Hatch Act of 1887. Through the years the NDAES has been an important part of the national as well as an international scientific community. But, as the author relates, it is also an integral part of the state of North Dakota. It is unique because it is the only research institution in the world devoted to North Dakota agriculture and its problems. As such, its story is closely intertwined with the story of the state and its agricultural tradition.The NDAES has devoted itself throughout its history to improving agriculture in the state and to enhancing the well-being of North Dakota farmers. This book is the story of how it has attempted to reach these goals, the difficulties it has encountered and the successes it has achieved along the way.