For Many Farmers, Retirement Is a Source of Dread - The New York Times
Christina Capecchi
MASONVILLE, Iowa — Lavern Kelchen stood in the back of a church hall in jeans and a shirt, tapped his left index finger on his leg and placed the winning bid on a farm here in eastern Iowa.
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