By 1932, with the Depression worsening, the Farmer-Labor Party platform was proposing a state income tax, a graduated tax on nationwide chain stores (such as J.C. Penney and Sears, Roebuck and Company), low-interest farm loans, and a state unemployment insurance program.
Founded in 1915 by A.C. Townley, who became a Socialist Party organizer after he went broke raising flax in western North Dakota, the NPL advocated state-owned banks to provide low-interest farm loans, along with state flour mills, grain elevators, meatpacking houses and hail insurance.
Do the business interests, farm interests, liberals, Latinos, and other advocates of cutting a deal believe President Obama is willing to spend large amounts of political capital on this?
We include three general categories of agriculture-related entities that represent agricultural interests: "farm groups," the "farm press," and "agribusiness companies" (Table 1).
The farms of interest were farms with cattle, pigs, sheep and goats.
He continued sketching and loved the climate, but showed little interest in farm management.
The questionnaire comprised five areas of interest: (1) farm characteristics, (2) calving and care of the newborn, (3) calf housing, (4) calf feeding, and (5) calf disease and mortality in pre-weaned calves.
According to agricultural professor at Van university, Adnan Yavic, it is the image of ageing and unproductive smallholder farmers, still reliant on traditional farming methods, that deter younger generations from showing an interest in farming.
Snowden's interest in farming extends beyond it being a subject; she's wanted to have her own home farm since the 1970s.
When wild cod populations crashed, interest in farming cod increased.
Nassar's interest in farming goes back to his childhood.
