Iowa, for example, lost nearly 5 percent of its population during the 1980's, as the farm crisis hollowed many small towns.

But then came the farm crisis, beginning in 1982, marked by high interest rates and low prices for hogs.

They suffered some rocky times in the farm crisis but came through with relatively few scars.

For the first time since the great drought of 1988, an American farm crisis might be in the making.

Since the farm crisis, states have directly or indirectly promoted economic development in some and let the weaker ones die.

The 1980s farm crisis and other economic pressures led to the closing of the plant in 1993.

The reader is given a very real glimpse of the current farm crisis, as seen from a child's perspective.

The farm crisis of the early 1980's knocked them down again, to a level about 20 percent below the average for all American families.

But since the farm crisis of the early 1980's, enrollment has fallen from about 120 students per session to 50.

Some consider the practice a way of recovering from the farm crisis.