arms and left lender without uncorrectable debts". (USA Today) This shows us how hard it is for farmers to receive credit, to keep the operation of a farm working. And without this credit, many farmers face the inevitable, that is, closing and selling their farmland.
Farmers, however, do receive aid from the Government, to help them with competing prices. According to an article in the Philadelphia Tribune, it says that if "the Congressional Budget Reconciliation Act now awaiting presidential action is enacted, the historical American farm family will finally vanish". The Reconciliation Act mandates a $13.4 billion cut in agriculture over
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