Klayton Lohr rolls up the barn door on his family’s farm in Devon, Montana. Outside, golden wheat fields stretch to the horizon in every direction.

“This back combine belonged to my great uncle, and the front one is my grandpa’s, and they’re from the early 40s,” Lohr points out.

Lohr, 30, is the fourth generation running this 3,000-acre grain farm. He says his deepest fear is that he’ll be the last.

“The tough thing is, you’ve got a 115-year-old farm, and I’m looking at the potential that it could end with me.”

Lohr says the price of fertilizer is the highest he’s seen in 11 years, and wheat prices keep dropping.

It’s been three weeks since the government shutdown began on October 1. Farmers like Lohr haven’t been able to get help from local federal Farm Service Agency offices. The ag

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