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American Agriculture by Doug Hurt on WBAA

July 1st, 2010

Award-winning interviewer, Mike Loizzo of WBAA Public Radio, has recently interviewed R. Douglas Hurt, head of the Department of History at Purdue and author of American Agriculture: A Brief History, published in a revised edition by Purdue University Press in 2002. The book provides a broad overview of the development of American agriculture from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, and is a ready reference for the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming. The broadcast is on Friday July 2 at 7.30 am and 4.30 pm on AM-920 and FM 101.30. The full interview is then archived in the WBAA news archive, as part of the series of interviews that WBAA has been airing in celebration of Purdue University Press’s fiftieth anniversary. 

WBAA-AM, AM-920, is Indiana’s longest continuously operating radio station, having received its broadcasting license in 1922. In 1993, WBAA-FM, 101.3 FM, began broadcasting.