Reminiscences of Robert Bergland, 1982.

Biographical Note

Congressman, Secretary of Agriculture

Scope and Contents

Congressional tenure, 1970-77: creation of Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Soviet grain sales, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the oil embargo, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, surplus dumping programs; Secretary of Agriculture, 1977-81; intelligence gathering, Food Stamp program, Farmer-owned Grain Reserve Program, budgeting prodecures, soil erosion control, American Agricultural Movement, 1978-79, Food for Peace Program (Public Law 480), embargo on Soviet grain sales, 1979-80, issuance of nutritional guidelines, school lunch program, pest and predator control, loan and insurance programs; Presidential campaign, 1980; Equal Opportunity; views on: farm income and price support plans, crop subsidies, large vs family farms, farm workers, market orders, foreign and minority farm ownership, the Green Revolution, foreign agriculture, organic farming; impressions of Jimmy Carter, other officials

Subjects

• Agriculture--Economic aspects.
• Agriculture and state.
• Bergland, Bob, 1928-2018--Interviews.
• Cabinet officers--United States--Interviews.
• Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Green Revolution.
• Interviews.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
• United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.
• United States--Politics and government--1974-1977.
• United States--Politics and government--1977-1981.
• United States. Congress.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.