1980s farm crisis Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/1980s-farm-crisis/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:27:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png 1980s farm crisis Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/1980s-farm-crisis/ 32 32 Sarah and the Two Jims https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/sarah-and-the-two-jims/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:02:08 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1372 The 1980s were hard times for agriculture, the worst hard times since the Great Depression. When you look at the raw data, it is truly staggering.  Real U.S. net farm income fell over 40% from the  early 1970s to early 1980s.  Well over a quarter of a million farms were lost in the 1980s. Those lost farms were overwhelmingly family […]

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