When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s Riney-Kehrberg Pamela
When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s Riney-Kehrberg Pamela Tucked into the files of Iowa State University's Cooperative Extension Service is a small, innocuous…
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When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s Riney-Kehrberg Pamela
Tucked into the files of Iowa State University's Cooperative Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the title Lenders: Working through the Farmer-Lender Crisis. Iowa State published this pamphlet in April of 1986. Cooperative Extension Service intended this publication to improve bankers' empathy and communication skills, especially when facing farmers showing "Suicide Warning Signs." After all, they were working with individuals experiencing extreme economic distress, and each banker needed to learn to "be a good listener." What was important, too, was what was left unsaid.
The unwritten subtext of Just four months earlier, farmer Dale Burr of Lone Tree, Iowa, had killed his wife, and then walked into the Hills Bank and Trust company and shot a banker to death in the lobby before taking shots at neighbors, killing one of them, and then killing himself.