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The Farm Crisis

The Farm Crisis

Explore why the farm crisis of the 1980s happened, meet the farm families who struggled and the men and women who fought so long and so loyally to help them, and examine how agriculture changed as a result of the crisis.

The Farm Crisis is a local public television program presented by Iowa PBS

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