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When a Dream Dies - Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s (Hardcover)
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When a Dream Dies - Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s (Hardcover)
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Tucked into the files of Iowa State University's Cooperative
Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the
title Lenders: Working through the Farmer-Lender Crisis.
Cooperative Extension Service intended this publication to improve
bankers' empathy and communication skills, especially when facing
farmers showing "Suicide Warning Signs." After all, they were
working with individuals experiencing extreme economic distress,
and each banker needed to learn to "be a good listener." What was
important, too, was what was left unsaid. Iowa State published this
pamphlet in April of 1986. Just four months earlier, farmer Dale
Burr of Lone Tree, Iowa, had killed his wife, and then walked into
the Hills Bank and Trust company and shot a banker to death in the
lobby before taking shots at neighbors, killing one of them, and
then killing himself. The unwritten subtext of this little pamphlet
was "beware." If bankers failed to adapt to changing circumstances,
the next desperate farmer might be shooting.This was Iowa in the
1980s. The state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural
collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. In When a Dream
Dies, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg examines the lives of ordinary Iowa
farmers during this period, as the Midwest experienced the worst of
the crisis. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and
small-town Iowans watched and suffered, struggling to find
effective ways to cope with the crisis. If families and communities
were to endure, they would have to think about themselves, their
farms, and their futures in new ways. For many Iowan families, this
meant restructuring their lives or moving away from agriculture
completely. This book helps to explain how this disaster changed
children, families, communities, and the development of the
nation's heartland in the late twentieth century. Agricultural
crises are not just events that affect farms. When a Dream Dies
explores the Farm Crisis of the 1980s from the perspective of the
two-thirds of the state's agricultural population seriously
affected by a farm debt crisis that rapidly spiraled out of their
control. Riney-Kehrberg treats the Farm Crisis as a family event
while examining the impact of the crisis on mental health and food
insecurity and discussing the long-term implications of the crisis
for the shape and function of agriculture.
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