Jeremy Jack knows all too well what a farming economic crisis looks like.

His mother and father moved to Humphreys County from Canada in 1979 to farm the rich gold of Mississippi Delta land.

Unfortunately, soon after they arrived, the farming crisis of the 1980s hit, an economic disaster that devastated rural Mississippi and rural America. It forced thousands of farmers into bankruptcy as debt, plunging commodity prices, high interest rates, and government policy fueled the crisis, which many analysts believe was the most severe since the Great Depression.

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