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Some farmers have used social media to share their frustrations about the weather, showing images of flooded fields and stuck tractors.

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Alicia Harvie, director of advocacy and farmer services at Farm Aid, runs a hotline that works with dozens of farmers a month. Harvie said the flooding could create a crisis for American farmers on par with the 1980s, when a large number of family farms closed.

She said the flooding and trade issues causing problems now are hitting farms already strained by declining prices and mounting debt.

\"The average farm family last year made a negative number for their salary,\" she said. \"What other job do we have where we expect somebody to lose money to do their job every day?\"

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PHOTO: Corn grows in a saturated farm field on May 29, 2019 near Emden, Ill.
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Hurst said there's also been an emotional toll on farmers who watched their fields fill with rainwater around the same time U.S.-China trade talks broke down.

Hurst, who operates his farm with his dad, brothers, nephews and sons-in-law, said his family still has 2,400 acres of soybeans and a greenhouse, but they haven't decided yet what to do with their flooded land.

\"The change in mood,\" he said, \"has been pretty drastic in the last 30 days.\"

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