Hiram Drache, professor emeritus of history at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., died Oct. 17, 2020, at age 96. Drache had a regional and national impact for his authorship of agricultural history books. He was a controversial advocate of larger-scale corporate-style farming business, including that of his former student Ron D. Offutt Jr., of Fargo, who became a world titan of potato production and farm equipment retailing.
