Farm Crisis, 1979–1987
Bibliography
Amundson, Roland C., and Lewis J. Rotman. "Depression Jurisprudence Revisited: Minnesota's Moratorium on Mortgage Foreclosure." William Mitchell Law Review 10, no. 4 (1984): 805–850. https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2614&context=wmlr
Associated Press. "FmHA Foreclosures Down Sharply, but Future is Uncertain." Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 15, 1985.
Associated Press. “Minnesota Schools, Businesses to Close for Farmers' Protest.” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1985.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-21-mn-14201-story.html
Bayles, Fred. “America's Farmers: Hard Times Turning Farmers Into Activists.” AP News, March 8, 1985. https://www.apnews.com/e73d2a019af21ab987093c70ea1422c5
Boehlje, Michael. "Farm Crisis Will Cost Public, Now or Later." Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 11, 1985.
Brandt, Steve. "Farm Woes May Require Extreme Remedies." Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 17, 1985.
Brandt, Steve. "Foreclosures of Farm Mortgages by State Banks Triple in Two Years." Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 14, 1985.
Calomiris, Charles W., R. Glenn Hubbard, and James H. Stock. "The Farm Debt Crisis and Public Policy." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2 (1986): 441–479. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stock/files/the_farm_debt_crisis_and_public_policy.pdf
Downs, Donna, Matthew G. Smith, and Philip M. Raup. "The Minnesota Rural Real Estate Market in 1983." Minnesota Agricultural Economist, no. 645 (January 1984).
Dudley, Kathryn Marie. Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Franklin, Robert. "Fulda Couple Bet the Farm, Eventually Won Some of It." Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 23, 1989.
Groundswell organization records, 1984–1993
Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00534.xml
Description: Minutes and agenda packets, correspondence, newsletters, brochures, and other materials reflecting the activity of a nonpartisan organization of rural Minnesotans dedicated to ensuring the survival of the family farm.
Iowa Public Television. 1980s Farm Crisis.
http://www.iptv.org/mtom/classroom/module/13999/farm-crisis?tab=background&page=1
Klauda, Paul. "Advocates Lend Advice, Sympathy to Troubled Farmers." Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 29, 1984.
Levy, Paul. "Foreclosures on Minnesota Farms Still Remain Uncommon Happenings.”
Minneapolis Tribune, March 27, 1983.
Lucier, Gary, Agnes Chesley, and Mary Ahearn. “Farm Income Data: A Historical Perspective.” United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service Statistical Bulletin Number 740. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, [1985?].
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/154593/files/sb740.pdf
Mangum, Kathy. "Project Support Tackles Rural Problems in Minnesota." From: "Farm Crisis Response: Extension and Research Activities in the North Central Region." Ames, IA: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, [1987?].
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED286706.pdf
McGrath, Dennis J. "Farmers Get Sympathy, But No Foreclosure Guarantee." Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 27, 1982.
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. “About the Minnesota Ethanol Program.” http://www.mda.state.mn.us/renewable/ethanol/about.aspx
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. “Agriculture…Biennium: A Report to the Legislature.” St. Paul: The Department, 1976–1978, 1979–1980, 1981–1982, 1982–1983, 1984–1986.
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Minnesota Farm Advocates.
https://www.mda.state.mn.us/about/commissionersoffice/farmadvocates
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Minnesota's Corporate Farm Report.
https://www.mda.state.mn.us/licensing/licensetypes/corpfarmreport.aspx
Minnesota Legislature. 2017 Minnesota Statutes: Property and Property Interests, Chapter 500, Section 500.24, Farming by Business Organizations.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=500.24
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1983, Chapter 215.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/?year=1983&type=0&doctype=Chapter&id=215
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1984, Chapter 474.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/?year=1984&type=0&doctype=Chapter&id=474
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1985, Chapter 19, Senate File No. 546.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1985/0/Session+Law/Chapter/19/
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1986, Chapter 398.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/?year=1986&type=0&doctype=Chapter&id=398
Minnesota Tax Study Commission. "Property Taxation of Agriculture in Minnesota."
https://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/pre2003/other/841457.pdf
Mold, Doris E. and Glen D. Pederson. "Minnesota's Farmer-Lender Mediation Program: Case Characteristics and Results." Staff paper P89–39, University of Minnesota, October 1989.
Olson, Allen H. “Federal Farm Programs—Past, Present and Future—Will We Learn from our Mistakes?” National Agricultural Law Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/bibarticles/olson_federal.pdf
Originally published in Great Plaines Natural Resources Journal, 2001.
Roby, Marguerite. “Tractorcade.” Smithsonian Institution Archives blog, February 21, 2012.
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/tractorcade
Robbins, William. “Economic Troubles Spawn Fear, Despair in Rural United States." New York Times, February 17, 1985.
Rural Storm: Minnesota's Farm Crisis. Minneapolis: School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, 1985.
Stam, Jerome M., and Bruce L. Dixon. Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. “Farmer Bankruptcies and Farm Exits in the United States, 1899–2002.” Agriculture Information Bulletin 788 (March 2004): 1–36.
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/33689/1/ai040788.pdf
Wilson, Betty, and Associated Press. "Foreclosure Freeze Boosted in State Senate." Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 20, 1982.
Chronology
1971
1976
1976
1977
1979
1979
1979
1979
1980
1983
1983
1984
1986
1986
1987
Bibliography
Amundson, Roland C., and Lewis J. Rotman. "Depression Jurisprudence Revisited: Minnesota's Moratorium on Mortgage Foreclosure." William Mitchell Law Review 10, no. 4 (1984): 805–850. https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2614&context=wmlr
Associated Press. "FmHA Foreclosures Down Sharply, but Future is Uncertain." Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 15, 1985.
Associated Press. “Minnesota Schools, Businesses to Close for Farmers' Protest.” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1985.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-21-mn-14201-story.html
Bayles, Fred. “America's Farmers: Hard Times Turning Farmers Into Activists.” AP News, March 8, 1985. https://www.apnews.com/e73d2a019af21ab987093c70ea1422c5
Boehlje, Michael. "Farm Crisis Will Cost Public, Now or Later." Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 11, 1985.
Brandt, Steve. "Farm Woes May Require Extreme Remedies." Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 17, 1985.
Brandt, Steve. "Foreclosures of Farm Mortgages by State Banks Triple in Two Years." Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 14, 1985.
Calomiris, Charles W., R. Glenn Hubbard, and James H. Stock. "The Farm Debt Crisis and Public Policy." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2 (1986): 441–479. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stock/files/the_farm_debt_crisis_and_public_policy.pdf
Downs, Donna, Matthew G. Smith, and Philip M. Raup. "The Minnesota Rural Real Estate Market in 1983." Minnesota Agricultural Economist, no. 645 (January 1984).
Dudley, Kathryn Marie. Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Franklin, Robert. "Fulda Couple Bet the Farm, Eventually Won Some of It." Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 23, 1989.
Groundswell organization records, 1984–1993
Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00534.xml
Description: Minutes and agenda packets, correspondence, newsletters, brochures, and other materials reflecting the activity of a nonpartisan organization of rural Minnesotans dedicated to ensuring the survival of the family farm.
Iowa Public Television. 1980s Farm Crisis.
http://www.iptv.org/mtom/classroom/module/13999/farm-crisis?tab=background&page=1
Klauda, Paul. "Advocates Lend Advice, Sympathy to Troubled Farmers." Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 29, 1984.
Levy, Paul. "Foreclosures on Minnesota Farms Still Remain Uncommon Happenings.”
Minneapolis Tribune, March 27, 1983.
Lucier, Gary, Agnes Chesley, and Mary Ahearn. “Farm Income Data: A Historical Perspective.” United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service Statistical Bulletin Number 740. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, [1985?].
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/154593/files/sb740.pdf
Mangum, Kathy. "Project Support Tackles Rural Problems in Minnesota." From: "Farm Crisis Response: Extension and Research Activities in the North Central Region." Ames, IA: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, [1987?].
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED286706.pdf
McGrath, Dennis J. "Farmers Get Sympathy, But No Foreclosure Guarantee." Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 27, 1982.
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. “About the Minnesota Ethanol Program.” http://www.mda.state.mn.us/renewable/ethanol/about.aspx
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. “Agriculture…Biennium: A Report to the Legislature.” St. Paul: The Department, 1976–1978, 1979–1980, 1981–1982, 1982–1983, 1984–1986.
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Minnesota Farm Advocates.
https://www.mda.state.mn.us/about/commissionersoffice/farmadvocates
Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Minnesota's Corporate Farm Report.
https://www.mda.state.mn.us/licensing/licensetypes/corpfarmreport.aspx
Minnesota Legislature. 2017 Minnesota Statutes: Property and Property Interests, Chapter 500, Section 500.24, Farming by Business Organizations.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=500.24
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1983, Chapter 215.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/?year=1983&type=0&doctype=Chapter&id=215
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1984, Chapter 474.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/?year=1984&type=0&doctype=Chapter&id=474
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1985, Chapter 19, Senate File No. 546.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1985/0/Session+Law/Chapter/19/
Minnesota Legislature. Laws of Minnesota 1986, Chapter 398.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/?year=1986&type=0&doctype=Chapter&id=398
Minnesota Tax Study Commission. "Property Taxation of Agriculture in Minnesota."
https://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/pre2003/other/841457.pdf
Mold, Doris E. and Glen D. Pederson. "Minnesota's Farmer-Lender Mediation Program: Case Characteristics and Results." Staff paper P89–39, University of Minnesota, October 1989.
Olson, Allen H. “Federal Farm Programs—Past, Present and Future—Will We Learn from our Mistakes?” National Agricultural Law Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/bibarticles/olson_federal.pdf
Originally published in Great Plaines Natural Resources Journal, 2001.
Roby, Marguerite. “Tractorcade.” Smithsonian Institution Archives blog, February 21, 2012.
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/tractorcade
Robbins, William. “Economic Troubles Spawn Fear, Despair in Rural United States." New York Times, February 17, 1985.
Rural Storm: Minnesota's Farm Crisis. Minneapolis: School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, 1985.
Stam, Jerome M., and Bruce L. Dixon. Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. “Farmer Bankruptcies and Farm Exits in the United States, 1899–2002.” Agriculture Information Bulletin 788 (March 2004): 1–36.
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/33689/1/ai040788.pdf
Wilson, Betty, and Associated Press. "Foreclosure Freeze Boosted in State Senate." Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 20, 1982.