BY JAMES M. DECKER
“[The farmer] is, after all, the only man in our economy who must buy everything he buys at retail—sell everything he sells at wholesale—and pay the freight both ways.”
This is a famous (and mostly accurate) line about the difficulties of farm economies. It comes from a speech by then-Senator John F. Kennedy at a Democratic campaign gatherin...
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