Source: Jeff Daniels, CNBC, 12/27/17



Like a lot of corn farmers in America's heartland, Don and Barb Batie in Nebraska are struggling to make ends meet and worry next year may bring another year of limited profitability or even losses. "The farm crisis in the 1980s was much worse than what we currently have," said Don Batie, a fourth-generation farmer. "But we're headed in the same direction."

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