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Farm bankruptcies running 23 percent ahead of a year ago
Reprinted from The Rural Blog (irjci.blogspot.com)
Chapter 12 bankruptcies of family farming operations in the last year are 23 percent higher than they were for the previous year, John Newton, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, reports on Feed and Grain Blog.
“Given the challenges to the farm economy in recent years, i.e., low commodity prices, retaliatory tariffs, and…