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"I just like to watch things grow," is the way J.O. Cross Jr., 58, explains his decision to follow his father's vocation. He bought his own 360-acre spread in central Georgia's Dooly County in 1953 and planted a variety of crops (soybeans, cotton, peanuts, wheat) to hedge...
The profits were steady enough so that by 1977 Ruth decided to stop teaching. That same year a drought hit much of the South. "We didn't make anything that year," says Cross. "We decided that the only way to hold on was to go into debt for an irrigation...
By 1982 the production credit association advised Cross to get longer-term financing so that his yearly payments would be lower. He got a loan from the Federal Land Bank. "We had to borrow from here," says Cross, pointing to one of his fingers, "to pay here." He touches another...
Anderson, an avuncular man who is active in Texas Republican politics, is worried because he has been hit by what he calls "two whammies." A few years ago, his land was worth $1,400 an acre. Now he figures it runs at best $1,000 an acre. Where he once...
% Delbert Kahoun, 57, and his cheery wife Christine, 60, like to tell how their 600-acre dairy farm near the southeastern Minnesota town of Rushford (pop. 1,500) has survived through six generations, beginning in 1864. "All the timber on this farm, every acre here, was cleared by my great...