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their livestock at deflated prices while feed cost skyrocketed with the lower supply. Beef and veal prices were down .7 percent in August, pork was down .(> percent, the most recent monthly dip in a continuing trend.
This year’s drought combined with dry spells in other recent years, high production costs and low cash flow have created a financial situation of "crisis proportions” according to the VFBF report to congress. Farmers facing long-term high interest loans incurred (luring the 1977 and 19KU droughts are not able to meet their obligations. (Continued on Page 2)
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