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(118,665 posts) Fri Jan 31, 2020, 05:20 PM Jan 2020

Farm Bankruptcies Hit 8-Year High

Farm Bankruptcies Hit 8-Year High

January 31, 2020 at 8:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 198 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/31/farm-bankruptcies-hit-8-year-high/

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“U.S. farm bankruptcy rates jumped 20% in 2019 – to an eight-year high – as financial woes in the U.S. agricultural economy continued in spite of massive federal bail-out funding,” Reuters reports.

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