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Plowing up a Storm
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[Description from the original press release] In Nebraska and across the Midwest, the number of family farms is decreasing steadily. Prices for farm land and for farm produce are declining and farm debt is high. There is a sense of despair in many rural areas that the family farm and its way of life may be a thing of the past, a sentiment popularized and confirmed in movies like Country. In times like these, American farmers throughout history have organized in protest—against low crop prices, monopolies, bankers, politicians and government policies. These uprisings, sometimes resulting in unplanned violence, have been small American revolutions involving hundreds of men and women. At the heart of all these movements is the preservation of the family-owned farm. A Nebraska ETV Network documentary recounts the history of the various farm movements since the Civil War and compares them with today's volatile farm situation. "Plowing Up a Storm," which is being broadcast nationally by Public Broadcasting Service, will air Wednesday, June 19, at 8:30 p.m. on all stations of the Nebraska Educational Television Network. A modern-day foreclosure sale sets the stage for this historical revi…
Directors & creators
Nebraska Public Media
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Nebraska ETV Network, The Grange, Farmers Alliance, People's Party, Nonpartisan League, Farmers Holiday Association, family farms, agricultural economics, farm foreclosures, rural crisis, farm protest movements, populism, Midwestern agriculture, agricultural history
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