Keeping them on the farm getting tougher

Monday, October 8, 2001

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- In recent years it has become more difficult for Missouri farmers to tend their crops and raise their livestock and still produce a profit. The nation's recent era of high technology, while boosting the incomes of virtually every one involved, also served to point up the contrast between so-called "techies" and the state's tillers of the soil.

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