Don Muhm

Tough economic times spawned a radical new kind of farm organization in the wake of the Korean War, a time when the combination of drought and depressed farm prices gripped the rural midlands. In this scenario the National Farmers Organization (NFO) was born. No one sensed then that this new farm...

As the storm clouds of farm crisis loom on the horizon fueled by a precipitous drop in farm income, it seems the forecast couldn't be worse. Yet today's farmers need only look to their roots for models of strength reflected in the 80-year history of the Farmers Union in Minnesota and recounted in...