The result was considerable ill will and a loss by grain farmers of an estimated $350 million.
Despite enduring problems for America's grain farmers, the cattle industry is experiencing its first real economic boom in 20 years.
The town services the grain farmers and graziers in the area.
When the open range came to an end most of the areas cattlemen became the first grain farmers of the district.
The agreement today on many farm issues represents a victory for large-scale Midwestern grain farmers.
And here all along she'd been thinking of a boost for the grain farmers!
And Government programs intended to help financially ailing grain farmers are helping the more prosperous ones as well.
Yet the pressure on grain farmers to trade independence for customer satisfaction is bound to grow, industry leaders say.
Witnesses came forward, so did accountants and merchants, not to mention grain farmers.
Cattle ranchers and grain farmers made up the first Europeans to settle the area in the 1880s.