Farmers problems increase during the late 1970s and through the 1980s as interest rates continue to skyrocket, land prices plummet, and farmers find themselves over-leveraged.

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The Farm Crisis is a 90-minute film produced by Iowa Public Television that examines the economic and personal disasters that afflicted the agriculture sector in the 1980s. Watch the full documentary online at http://www.iptv.org/iowastories/story.cfm/farm-crisis/10632/frc_20130701/video