Former U. S. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland has died in Minnesota. He was 90.
ROSEAU, Minn. — Former U. S. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland has died in Minnesota. He was 90.
Bergland’s daughter, Linda Vatnsdal, says he died Sunday at a nursing home in Roseau in northern Minnesota
As Agriculture Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, Bergland had the difficult job of defending to Midwest farmers Carter’s unpopular decision to embargo grain sales to the Soviet Union after the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
