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Angry farmers protest in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1985. With the rising costs of land, many farmers were unable to meet the financial demands of running their business. In the July 29, 1985, issue,U.S.News & World Report quotes Tim Davis, president of a 16-county production-credit association in the Mississippi Delta. "We see a lot of these guys just going further and further in the hole. . . . They've borrowed up to the equity in the land. At some point, you've got a moral obligation to say to that fellow, 'Look, you've got to get out and do something else. It's costing you too much money to farm.' "
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