Barnes County Historical Society Annual Meeting and Final Season 23 Lecture by John Ikerd
Thu, Jun 13
|Valley City
The Annual Meeting of the BCHS is in the Riverside Room of the Valley City Eagles Aerie starting at 6:30. All Society members are encouraged to attend. There are organization reports and the election of two new board members. This is followed at 7:30 by Dr. John Ikerd.
Time & Location
Jun 13, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Valley City, 345 12th Ave NE, Valley City, ND 58072, USA
About the event
50 years that changed it all: Food, Farming and Community
Dr. John Ikerd will share his perspectives on food, farming and community as part of the Barnes County Historical Society’s 150 birthday celebration for the county.
A nationally and internationally known writer and speaker, he will be at the Valley City Eagles Club on Thursday, June 13 at 7:30.
Dr Ikerd is an emeritus professor at the University of Missouri who grew up as a dairy farm kid in Missouri, worked for the 3rd largest meatpacking company in America, then earned a PhD in agricultural economics at the University of Missouri. For years as a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, North Carolina State and then University of Georgia, he taught what he learned-“ go big or go home” and “farming is a business, not a way of life”. In Georgia as an extension livestock marketing specialist, he helped…