Times are tough in the farm industry, and there are similarities and differences in comparison with what was going on to ...

Facing tumbling commodity prices and livestock prices that are a mixed bag at best, American farm families are struggling to keep their heads above water. And the farm bill that is supposed to provide ...

Editor's note: This is the first part in a series looking at the farm crisis of the 1980s. FARGO, N.D. | Today’s older farmers remember the 1980s farm credit crisis, but the younger ones can barely ...

“I’ve definitely made mistakes and decisions that were expensive,” Klinefelter says. “So far, I’ve been able to get through to the other side of them.” Fall’s sun drapes across the sky in Nokomis, Ill ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Creighton University’s Rural Mainstreet Index shows economic conditions are certainly tightening across America’s Heartland. But the downturn so far has not reached anywhere near what ...

Indiana ag lender Joe Kessie graduated from Purdue University in 1983 with a degree in ag finance – during the height of the 1980s farm crisis. “I think only about 25% of the graduates in the ag ...

Echoes of the 1980 grain embargo against the Soviet Union, imposed by then-President Jimmy Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, remain in farm country. That embargo reshuffled global farm ...

A grim economic outlook for U.S. corn and soybean farmers is inviting comparisons with the devastating farm economy of the 1980s. While there are key differences, smaller and mid-sized farmers are at ...

The 1980s farm crisis didn’t just impact balance sheets, it changed people’s interest in being involved in agriculture. “The farm prices didn’t just hurt those in production, the ripple effect was ...