25TH ANNIVERSARY
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AGWEEK / Monday, August 2, 2010 – PAGE 5
Rep. Collin Peterson, DMinn., changed the Northern Plains impact on farm policy when he became chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. In concert with Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., in the Senate Agriculture Committee, the region was well represented in the 2008 farm bill debate and likely will be in 2012.
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tural history. A look back reminds us how varied things were. But it seems challenges are nothing new and aren’t likely to end. The first issues of Agweek were published in 1985, and farmers and agribusinesses in the Red River Valley were coming into some of the most difficult financial situations they’d faced since the 1930s. The region’s agriculture community had gone through the “go-go 1970s,” with government calls to plant “fencerow-to-fencerow,” and now were suffering with double-digit interest loan rates and then collapsing farm prices. Many “young tiger” farmers of the previous decade were humbled and struggled through the darkness. Some who had kept more of their equity in reserve benefitted with the help of more sophisticated information. Agweek came into its powers as a powerful light, shining a spotlight on market factors and governmental support policies trying to stabilize the hemorrhaging ag economy and flush market-depressing government grain supplies out of the system. Much of the region suffered another blow during the drought of 1988 to ’90 as the industry regained its footings. Agweek shifted its focus to a regional level in the 1990s and has EVOLVE: See Page 6
Mikkel Pates, Agweek staff
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