Part 2 of the story on how a secretive potato deal with a farming cooperative in Honduras scandalized North Dakotans, shook the state's government and made headlines for years.
Part 2 of the story on how a secretive potato deal with a farming cooperative in Honduras scandalized North Dakotans, shook the state's government and made headlines for years.
Part 1: How a secretive potato deal with Honduras shook North Dakota, sent two people to prison, forced the Honduran Army to collect a debt and made state leaders look like a "bunch of idiots."
In May 1994, I interviewed Fern (Renner) Welk, wife of Lawrence Welk, during the grand opening of the Lawrence Welk Champagne Theater in Branson, Missouri.
From 1932 until 1940, the milk wars stretched across the Great Plains and beyond, claiming lives and leaving a path of destruction as dairy workers and farmers struggled to survive.