The Farmers Wife
The Farmers Wife
In the documentary “The Farmers Wife” we meet Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter. They are rural area farmers that live in Lawrence, Nebraska with their three daughters, Abby, Audrey and Whitney. The documentary shows the hardships on the couple and there family as they juggled the daily responsibilities of running the farm. Darrel and Juanita wear themselves out trying to make ends meet when there is not enough money. Some people in this world do not realize what farming entails. From waking up before dawn, doing back breaking work until dark , never having a holiday, and barely making ends meet some find it challenging and rewarding while some find it exhausting and relentless.
Darrel and Juanita are both able to find outside ways to try to make things better financially. Darrel found a full time job pushing steel, and Juanita found a part time job cleaning houses for wealthier people. Darrel doesn’t approve of Juanita going outside the house to find a job, but bills had to be paid. Both still had to find time to take care of the farm and the children, putting even more stress on there marriage. Over the past few decades, the decline of farmers and farm land has been intensified by the changing world economy. This affects the seed, gas, fertilizer, food processing, farm implement and energy monopolies. This tightening squeeze comes on top of the inflation, tax burden, war danger and other social problems facing not only farmers but all people working and struggling to feed, clothe, and provide a place to live for themselves. Family farmers are being forced out of business at an alarming rate. Every week farmers leave the land they worked so hard for, to take a second job in the city. As a result, there are now fewer farms in the U.S. than there were in the early 20th century. Of the remaining farms, only a few are family operations. As established family farms are shut down, they are not being replace by new farms...
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