Farmers' Daughters

September, 1986

First there was Farm Aid and then there was Farm Aid II. Now here's the best-kept secret in the back 40We come and go, but the land is always there. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while." The words are those of a farmer's daughter, Willa Cather, in the days before price supports, agri-business and a national farm debt of 212.5 billion dollars. The 1986 Cather update should read, "The land belongs to the people who hold the bank note...