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...alarm is such that Willard Treu, a wheat, milo and corn grower, rushed up to TIME Correspondent Barbara Dolan when he heard her asking about farm problems at the John Deere store in Quinter, Kans. "I'm scared," he said. "I'm 61 years old and 41 years a farmer, and this is the worst time I've been through...
...Many farmers admit that they plunged too heavily into debt in the heyday of the 1970s, planting their fields from fence post to fence post. But they argue that that was precisely what federal bureaucrats and local bankers urged them to do. They reject the argument of Budget Director David Stockman that they are to blame for their troubles. "I'd like to get about 15 minutes behind the barn with that dude," says Tom Kersey, 45, a Georgia farmer who helped lead "tractorcade" protests to Washington...
...things change, the uncertainty of their futures concerns many California farmers. "This is the worst it's ever been," complained Irwin Effird, 64, who raises mostly grapes on his 2,000-acre spread near Clovis. "I came through the '30s and can remember the problems. But back then the whole country was in the same position, not just farmers." Now there is a glut of domestic raisins and Effird's farm is worth half what it was just three years ago. Pat Ricchioti, 65, a grape and fruit farmer with 3,000 acres near Madera, was also gloomy. "I never...
Under the Government program, if a farmer could not unload his leaf at auction, he could still consign it to a "pool," a farmers' cooperative that borrows money from the Government. The pool would then try to sell the tobacco. If it succeeded, the loan was repaid, but if it failed, the Government ate the difference. The cost to taxpayers was small, at least compared with other farm subsidies: $600 million total between 1938 and 1982. Yet increasingly, foes of tobacco began asking why any tax funds should go to a product that the Government itself says is a health...
...hours are long and the work back-breaking. There always seems to be too much of something: rain, sun, insects, sometimes even crops. The whole way of | life almost seems an anachronism in a land of expressways and glass skyscrapers. But somehow the farmer managed to get by, helped by his own skill and, for the past half-century, a sympathetic Government that kept a floor under the prices of major crops through fat years and lean...