Nation hears Farm Aid plea from Massey family in Champaign
A television Farm Aid appeal featuring Jim Massey and his family from Illinois was broadcast nationwide. Massey, described as a state farm woman relative, is linked to Ken Massey, a cousin to a country figure, as the Champaign concertheld Sunday.
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Average Wisconsin Family Farm Day at Swenson Farm
The Wisconson Rural Development Center selects the 415 acre Swenson dairy farm in Iowa County for the Wisconsin Family Farm Day event. Residents will tour the farm on Saturday with exhibits, tours, an ecumenical service, chautauqua and barn dance amid a fund raising drive to support family farms.
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Group forms to grade politicians on farm aid effort
A bipartisan group of legislator farmers announced the Mid west Emergency Action League MEAL to push a strong federal Farm Bill and reform agricultural policy to ease the farm crisis. Senator Tom Vickers of Nebraska said the group will meet in Washington next week with Farm Credit Administrator Donald Wilkinson congressional leaders and Reagan administration officials to push farm relief as FarmAid drew attention to farmers’ plight.
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