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No clear aid plan in sight as farm prices sink in Texas
A Texas reader laments three year price declines echoed by the August Agriculture Department report. Farm incomes shrink while farmers’ share falls from 12.6 percent in 1953 to 11.3 percent in 1954, with spillover effects hitting towns and cities as rural hardship grows. The writer seeks a workable national farm program beyond politics.
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