Which chair would you choose to sit in? Discover what that says about your personality

meetings when George wanted a second opinion.Open Bank Account

Ezoic

And I was there in 1985.

The farm crisis.

Discover more

News

news

Order Calendars

If you didn’t live through it, you can’t understand it. Interest rates went through the roof. Land prices crashed. Farmers who’d borrowed money in the good years couldn’t pay it back. All over Iowa, all over the Midwest, banks were calling in loans. Foreclosing on farms that had been in families for a hundred years.

Men were losing everything. Some of them couldn’t take it. That winter, three farmers in our county took their own