Bumper crop of farm stress: Toll mounts with late planting, low prices, rising costs and trade war

AMENIA — Brandon Lindstrom studied business in college. After graduating, he sold insurance and then electronic medical records systems before succumbing to family tradition and his inner impulses.

He and his brother are the fourth generation of Lindstroms to farm near the Rush River in Cass County outside this tiny farming community 32 miles northwest of Fargo. He decided to follow in his forebears' footsteps when he realized he kept going back to help out on the farm during his vacations.

“Initially I was a little concerned about my income being reliant on the weather,” he said, his tractor and corn planter waiting in the background. “But I enjoy it.”

And lately the weather hasn’t been cooperating — Lindstrom and his fellow farmers around North Dakota and Minnesota are getting a late start at spring planting, delayed because of the cold and wet spring.

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