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Forgein demand for food surplus increased. Congress passed a pure food and drug act
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Machiens drasticaly changed the amount of manpower needed on farms. Increased productivity
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People were needed to continue in the producton of food and fiber
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President Woodrow Wilson signed the Farm Credit Loan Act to provide long-term loans to farmers.
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wartime market disappeared and created a surplus of products and plummeting prices. Many agricultural producers could not make the payments on loans they had taken out for machinery, land, and seed during the war, and banks began to foreclose on them. A nationwide agricultural depression set in.