2011 Event The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that world food prices have reached a record high 1997 Event U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18 1976 Event Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke 1945 Event UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence 1943 Death Folkert E Posthuma, Minister of Agriculture, dies 1935 Birthday John R Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1981 - 1986 1933 Birthday Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture and land and fishing, CDA 1926 Birthday Jan de Koning, minister of Agriculture/Social Businesses, CDA 1918 Birthday Orville Freeman, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Governor-D-Minnesota 1955 - 1961, Secretary of Agriculture, 1961 - 1969 1916 Death Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52 1909 Birthday Earl Butz, born in Indiana, served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and Ford administrations 1909 Birthday Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers 1893 Event Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture 1874 Birthday Folkert E. Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry 1864 Birthday Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, Work Law of 1911 1862 Event Department of Agriculture created 1860 Event Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st U.S. superintendent of agriculture 1855 Birthday Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance 1820 Death Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies 1794 Death James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64 1785 Event Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
