April Hemmes began farming soybeans in Iowa in the mid-1980s, just as the agricultural economy was in crisis and many farms ...

The former dairyman said it without emotion, like someone remarking that one-half inch of rain fell the night before. He and I, his wife and two teenage children, were seated at the kitchen table, ...

The economic environment that we are in today is very similar to the 1970s and into the mid-80s. During that time many farmers went broke and, in the process, learned two lessons. Before I get to the ...

The woman who filled her bathtub with milk and bathed in it earned a certain amount of notoriety in our neighborhood. She did so as part of a National Farmers Organization withholding action in the ...

The farm crisis in the 1980s left a deep mark on the ­Midwest. It was the worst downturn in farming since the Depression. After an unprecedented boom in demand for wheat ended, thousands of farmers ...

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