In Kansas, angry farmers spoke of a "tractor march" on Washington. Across the Midwest, the 250,000-member National Farmers Union planned to boycott auto and farm-equipment makers because of high equipment prices. In 25 states, farmers who earlier this month were selling off some of their breeding stock to avert a threatened oversupply of pigs and calves, last week began dumping milk to drive up prices by 20 a quart.
Untold Story. Caught between rapidly rising farm costs (up 2% in the past year) and declining prices for their products (down 7% in the same period), farmers are bitter and increasingly...
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