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The stock market crash caused prices of grains and other crops to plummet. Along with the bad prices the yields also plummeted due to bad weather and growing conditions
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Statistics show that between 1930 and 1940, it take drastically less manpower and time to create more food.
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Agriculture was hurt very much as crops, rivers, streams, and almost everything dried up. Cattle couldn't be fed, crops failed, and money was short. The average income of a farm dropped to almost a third of what it was supposed to be at one point.
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The government was trying to put together a plan to help droughts in the future to not be a severe. What the committee figured out was that the drought was caused by the destruction of natural cover and overgrazing. Basically the land was just tired and dried out so it could blow away.
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The USDA had programs that were designed to help farmers change the way they farmed in order to save the soil. The government provided the labor to help farmers plant native grasses and trees, and build ponds.
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Exports were closed which caused a high surplus of food in the US. This caused the prices to be about nothing and farmers were asked to only grow the food necessary.
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American farmers went on full production mood since the Lend Lease Act guaranteed the Allies food.
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The military purchased up to as much as 14 percent of the food farmers produced in the US.
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The demand for in other countries still stayed high after the war so farmers were still doing pretty well.
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All the inventions used for the war were now used to industrialize farming. From pesticides to fertilizers, chemical enhancements helped farms become more efficient.
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Farmers could raise cattle for cheaper if managed correctly and they could help save the land from blowing away.
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This act helped farmers by keeping prices stable.
