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\nOne by one,in increasing numbers,farmers are losing their farms.This year,an estimated 10 to 20 percent are ex-pected to lose thir farms.In the next fewyears,say some experts,as many as 30percent of the nation's 2.3 million farm-ers could suffer the same fate.  \nWhy are so many farmers in trouble?The villain is not drought or flooding orany of the farmers'traditional naturalenemies.The villain is debt.Despiteseveral years of good harvests,a recordnumber of farmers now find themselvesfaced with bankruptcy.Bankruptcy is thecondition of not being able to pay one's  \ndebt s.  \nWhen a farmer goes bankrupt,the bankoften has no choice but to take away thefarm,auctioning off the farmer's land andequipment to the highest bidder.Suchauctions are not happy occasions.In someauctions,sheriffs have had to use forceto remove farmfamilies from their homes.Some farmers have handcuffed them-selves to farm equipment.Others haveeven held off auctioneers with guns.  \n# How They Got Into Debt\n\nThe fix that many farmers find them-selves in today has its roots in the 1970's.Those were prosperous years for farm-ers.Cheap U.S.farm products were beinggobbled up by a hungry world that seemed  \n一APWWad -UP  \neager to buy all the food the U.S.couldproduce.In 1978,the U.S.signed anagreement with the Soviet Union to sellthe Soviets millions of tons of grain.Totake advantage of the booming worldmarket,many U.S.farmers borrowedmoney to buy more equipment and land.  \nThen came 1980 and the Soviet inva-sion of Afghanistan.To protest the So-viet action,an angry President Carter cutoff grain sales to the Soviet Union.ManyU.S.farmers then found themselves stuckwith too much grain.They tried to sell itto other countries,but were only par-tially successful.In addition,hard eco-nomic times hit much of the world,andall U.S.farm products had a tougher timeselling.  \nPresident Reagan has resumed grainsales to the Soviets.But U.S.farmershave not yet recovered.Today,other food-exporting nations,such as Argentina andAustralia,give higher subsidies to their  \nContinued on Nexl Page  \nContinued from Page 1  \nfarmers than U.S.farmers get.This meansthat those governments pay their farmersthe difference between the prices at whichfarmers sell their products and the pricesthey need for a profit.A farmer sells abushel o wheat on the world market for  \n$1,for example.But he needed to sell itat $1.50 to make a profit.The govern-ment then subsidizes him by giving him50 cents a bushel.  \nAll this has put U.S.farmers in abind.They had borrowed money to expand.Yetthey can't sell enough of their productsto repay the loans.And the more cropsthey grow,the lower the prices go be-cause supply is much higher than demand.  \n(Prices are generally determined by thelaw of supply and demand.Supply is howmuch ofa product is available.Demand  \nEDPRE86  \nis how much of aproduct people are will-ing to buy.When demand is higher thansupply,prices tend to rise.But whensup-ply is higher than demand,as it 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