Representatives from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture on Friday buried a time capsule containing documents, photos and
maps from various agencies to celebrate the organization’s 150th anniversary.
“We basically asked everyone to contribute
something that reflects their agency,” said Brenda Ling, spokeswoman for the
Natural Resources Conservation Service.
She said the plan is to open the capsule in
25 years. Items include aerial maps of Wheatland from 1956 to 2009, submitted
by the Farm Service Agency, and the 150th report of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, submitted by the Agency for Rural Development.
Other representatives from the Farm Service
Agency, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Natural Resources
Conservation Service and Rural Development submitted their own items and signed
the white capsule before lowering it into the ground at Nancy English Park.
Chuck Schmitt, state conservation engineer
with the National Resources Conservation Service, said Nancy English Park was
chosen because of the USDA’s involvement in a project to prevent erosion in
2004.
“We were involved of the restoration of Nancy
English Park,” Schmitt said. “We did the design and the construction.”
The National Resources Conservation Service
also celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2010.
The USDA was established by President Abraham
Lincoln in May of 1862. Lincoln referred to it as the “People’s Department” and
tasked the organization with acquiring and distributing information about
agriculture.
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