Farmer's Holiday Association

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The Farmer's Holiday Association is a group started in the summer of 1932 by Milo Reno. The group endorsed the withholding of farm products from the market- basically a farmers' strike. The leader was Milo Reno. One person was killed when farmers began to blockade roads. Also farmers got together to resist foreclosure. They rallied to destroy and burn their crops, thus lowering supply and rising costs. In one account, the farmers used torpedoes to halt a train carrying livestock into Iowa. The highways into Sioux City and Council Bluffs were blocked by pickets who dumped any farm produce on the side of the road. At Le Mars, Iowa a bunch of angry farmers actually dragged a judge out of his courtroom, placed a noose around his neck, and threatened to hang him unless he stopped approving farm foreclosures.