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  • Kansas farmers face debts and drought

    Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle|Mar 24, 2017

    INMAN, Kan. (AP) — The 1980s are still seared in the minds of farmers: crushing debts, foreclosure auctions and the loss of generations-old family farms. Now, those bad old days may be staging a comeback in Kansas farm country. It's not just that wildfires scorched more than 700,000 acres and killed thousands of cattle in southwest and central Kansas, amid the return of drought in much of the state. It's that most farmers in Kansas and nationwide haven't been able to make much, if any, money farming for more than two years. It's not at c...