Articles tagged under: Bob Bergland
UMC to Host Bergland Lecture Series
Published November 27, 2024
The University of Minnesota-Crookston is launching the Bergland Lecture Series to promote new ideas to enhance agriculture and rural communities. This program is named for Bob Bergland, who served as the agriculture secretary during the Carter Administration and served in…Vilsack Advocates for a Different Approach to Farm Policy
Published May 15, 2024
In a speech at a rural communities event at the White House, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack delivered a farm policy history lesson. The USDA leader said the United States moved away from supply management in the 1970s to a model…500,000+ Farms Lost Since ’81
Published February 16, 2024
Farm policy went through a noteworthy change in the 1970s. Rather than managing supply, the focus was put on maximizing productivity and exporting that production around the world. At the USDA Ag Outlook Forum, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack shared a…Former Ag Secretary Reflects on His Time at USDA
Published June 10, 2021
After 18 years in Congress representing a district in Kansas, Dan Glickman served as Agriculture Secretary from 1995-to-2001. Glickman has authored a new book that looks back on his career. Capitol Hill is a much more partisan place today than…Agriculture Loses a True Statesman
Published December 10, 2018
Bob Bergland, 90, who was agriculture secretary in the Jimmy Carter Administration, died Sunday. Bergland farmed at Roseau, Minnesota, served in Congress from 1971-to-1977 and was a member of the cabinet during Carter’s four years in office. That was a…