Farmers who have always reacted politically and the dramatically whenever they felt that their economic interest would being negatively affected by external forces usually have to do with the with Farm price questions or with ratio of farm prices against the non Farm commodity prices. This goes back into the 19th century. Agrarian protest movements are given in American history and a constant in American history in the 19th century will have to do is just just enumerate them starting with the with the social movement of the Grange which moved directly into Political activity. Which resulted in railroad rate regulation both on the state? And then later on the federal level is one example, the movement towards the inflationary monetary standards Greenback party or through the People's Party populist party Farmers alliances both know the northern and southern alliances is a nineteenth-century phenomenon of farmers attempting to come to grips with the reality of agricultural capitalism and the kind of farm price problems where Farm commodity prices were always very very flexible. Breed of elastic and subject to major changes the consequence of of supply-demand Cycles. Whereas the Commodities which the farmer required to buy was required to buy particularly in becoming a form of capitalist agriculture technology and all that manufactured goods were always kept artificially high or at least a farmer thought so consequently the farmer struck out at what he thought were the the sources of the economic anomaly for him and thought it was some kind of conspiratorial group Wall Street railroads of the green exchanges. What have you and that it was this kind of of a feeling which led to the massive Farm revolts in the 19th century the continued into the twentieth century not only limited to the 19th of the 20th century as well except for a short. Of time during World War 1 when the ratio of farm commodity prices and the manufacturer good prices work in Balance parody, except for that. The farmers always been complaining and with good cause Farm prices have been low with ratio to other prices means that the farmer used to protest or political we saw in the 19th century and the 20th century discontinued in the nonpartisan League movement of North Dakota, which carried over into Minnesota into Western Minnesota then into the Twin Cities and led directly to the formation of the farmer labor party, which in fact dominated Minnesota politics at least in into the 30s and through the Third. And have an impact both in Iowa and Wisconsin as well that the nationally we find the other Farmer in the 1930s attempting to take matters into his own hands through a holding action strike action. The same kinds of activities will be find the nfo carrying out in the last decade and this New Movement attempting now the farm holiday Association of which was started by Milo Reno and was centered in the midwest Minnesota The Dakotas Wisconsin had as a major objective to withhold Farm Commodities from the market. So that prices would be pushed upward they became and milk their militancy consisted in dumping of milk and blocking roads kind of strike militancy that you find in person. In the urban industrial activities of 30s as well, but it didn't have any impact on their on their on their economic situation on the contrary. Their economic situation was not affected by it. But then got worse Farm tenancy increase in the 30s Farm mortgage foreclosures increased in the thirties, the number of farmers in the United States reduced in the thirties and continue to be reduced late invite to our present time. So it seems that the remedy has not been the remedy the most Farmers thought it would be a fact that had the opposite effect have any of the movements ever achieved any measure of success. Well, it's hard to say it by any standard. Yes, of course the farmers political activities did result in the 1920s and in the thirties in the creation of what we call the farm block. Congressman and Senators who pushed agricultural relief measures in the National legislature in the Congress. By the yard in the thirties and forties some of the ideas of the farmers were enacted into law Farm loan bank things of that nature Cooperative Farm Cooperative supports and stuff of that that kind a lot of the populist program was enacted into law, but the the benefits did not accrue to the farmers themselves by the farmers. Now I'm talking about the small family farmer the ones that we associate our minds with the the individual who works in the farm his wife and children, perhaps a couple of grandchildren may be a Hired Hand or two. I'm not talking about the large Farmers it. With the massive land and with the or corporate Farms or things of that nature. If it's the be interesting thing is it that even the farm blocks clout in the Congress in the 1920s was thwarted by the the Vito's of the the 1920 presidents Harding Coolidge and Hoover olvido. The measures of the farm block an effort to maintain a dual pricing system and international pricing system in the domestic pricing system, which was the basis of the mcnary-haugen bill mcnary-haugen ism is it was called this was vetoed by all of these three President Franklin Roosevelt came and of course different circumstances existed and a different set of of Remedies were proposed a reduction of production pay the farmers for not producing but the end result was the same reduction in the number of farmers in American society. Increase in the in the size of the typical Farm the furtherance of corporate agriculture the Sanibel the reason for that. It's absolutely essential today to have massive investment in order to make some kind of economic gain and Agriculture and although I may sound pessimistic two people listening. It seems that the trend is away from the family farm towards corporate Agriculture and things look Bleak for the family farmer.