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Fanners Owe 14.2%
Of Total Wealth
Farmers owe 14.2 per cent 3f their total net worth. These rigures come from the United States Department of Agri:ulture (USDA). The Department says that it the end of 1964 farmers in :he United States owned land, Duildings, livestock and equipnent worth more than $237.6 Dillions. This is up four per :ent over a year before and tp 16 per cent since 1960. Farm debt is $37.5 billion. Farmers’ equities in their igricultural assets are in:reasing rapidly. In 1940 they
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