From left: seated: Wanihiko Hasegawa, managing director, Nippon Flour Milling Co.; Akio Maru, executive director, Nishin Flour Milling Co.; Buichi Oishi, vice minister of agriculture and forestry; Nobuo Kuwahara, chief, 2nd operation division food ministry; Ryoichi Sugama, Oregon Wheat Growers league assistant in Japan; and Dr. D. D. Hill, head of Farm Crops at Oregon State College. Standing (left) F. E. Price, dean and director of agriculture, OSC; Wilson Foote, research agronomist, OSC; Dick Baum, Oregon Wheat Growers league; and Jack Ross, extension farm crops specialist, OSC.
John R. Hardison was a Research Pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Corvallis from 1944 until 1980. In 1950-1955, he had a joint appointment with the USDA and the Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1981, he was appointed to a part-time research faculty position in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Hardison earned his BS in 1939 from Washington State College and his MS (1940) and Ph.D. (1942) from the University of Michigan. Hardison's research on field burning as a means to control diseases in grass seed production began in the 1940s and continued until the early 1980s.
