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During 1910 horse and mule power was heavily used for pulling farm implements for things like planting, cultivating, and harvesting. -
During the 1920s The quality of rural homes were far lower than city families. Due to rural homes lacking indoor plumbing or electricity many farmers became to envy city life. -
In 1900 industrial technology had brought widespread improvements to to farmers. Dams supplied irrigation water for dried fields/land and the USDA scientists introduced new lands to farmers -
American's surplus increased and Europe because American's largest customer. Congress passed the Pure Food & Drug Act so then the USDA had to inspect the cleanliness of agriculture goods. -
Many communities in the early 1900s were looking about how to improve farming and farm life. The Binghamton Chamber of Commerce suggested a demonstration farm be established but that idea wasn't favorited. Then second idea was to employ a "country agriculture expert" and that idea stuck. -
While the war was still looming and an industrial revolution that moved more people out of rural areas and into the cities it became necessary that more people still needed to continue with food and fiber production. The US government supported collages for land grand collage programs to educate farmers and future farmers. -
Farmers purchased nearly 50,000 tractors and put 40,000,000 acres of new land into production with the money they had for expanstion. -
In 1918 The WLAA was an organization from a need for food production during World War 1. Since the men have been protesting there was a shortage of farm workers which slowed the food production down. The woman that have also been protesting for the right to vote have been showing the willingness to work on farms. By December The women of the WLAA and other oganizations got through to the "Chairman of Potatoes" and then women were finally allowed to work on farms. -
In the 1920s were far below families in the city. Farmers were so desperate for workers that in fact over one million farmers actually went to go seek employment in the cities. Unfortunately this was only the beginning of the Great Depression. -
While Europe was recovering from the war wartime markets disappeared and created a surplus for products and prices went plummeting. Many producers could not make payments on loans because of this, banks started to foreclose of them. -
The impact of the stark market crashing in 1930 made the prices of food drop a lot. Bushels of wheat and corn plummet more than 25 percent in a single year but prices began to drop even further for agriculture products as the depression continued. -
Agriculture was devastated and fields and streams dried up. Cattle couldn't be fed, crops failed, money was short, and there was less food on the table. Agriculture exports crashed and also reduced billion dollars a year.