"Now that you’ve got a government check for your corn, you can buy us lunch." The farmer who shared a meal with us laughed and said that the one-cent per-bushel received through the USDA payment to ...

MOTT, N.D. — An ambitious man from Mott was an early victim of the 1980s farm credit crisis and would play a key government role in getting money back in the hands of farmers. Milton J. “Milt” Hertz ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is the final installment in a four-part series: "Farm Crises - The 1980s and now," comparing the economic and political conditions between what was known as the "farm credit ...