The Nation - News from Jan. 2, 1985
American Agriculture Movement founder Jerry Wright has agreed to peacefully leave within 10 days the 320-acre wheat and milo farm near Campo, Colo., auctioned to pay off overdue loans, Baca County Sheriff Willard Goff said. At the first auction of Wright’s farm in January, 1983, about 300 angry farmers caused a near-riot on the Baca County Courthouse steps in Springfield. Last week, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane Jr. refused to issue an order that would have stopped the sheriff from enforcing a state court order to remove Wright. The southeast Colorado farm was sold at auction to the Federal Land Bank of Lamar, Colo., last year when Wright failed to pay back more than $500,000 in government loans.
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