For Generations to Come: The Cost of America's Farm Crisis

David Ostendorf is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He has worked since 1974 in rural organizing and advocacy and has worked specifically on the U.S. farm crisis since 1982 with Rural America and the Iowa Farm Unity Coalition. Ostendorf is director of Prairiefire Rural Action, a rural education, organizing, and advocacy group based in Des Moines, Iowa, that works with churches and farm organizations in Iowa and throughout the nation. He was interviewed by Danny Collum in June 1986. --The Editors