Agriculture in the 1930s by Natalie Nelson https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i Made with a curious mind en-us 2016-10-31 19:30:51 UTC 2025-10-02 19:32:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png Who: Farmers nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134340088 Total population: 122,775,046; farm population: 30,455,350; farmers 21% of labor force; Number of farms: 6,295,000; average acres: 157; irrigated acres: 14,633,252]]> 2016-10-31 19:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134340088 What: Crops & Tools nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342270 All-purpose, rubber-tired tractor with complementary machinery popularized.

Use of hybrid-seed corn becomes common in the Corn Belt.

13% of all farms have electricity.

15-20 labor-hours required to produce 100 bushels (2 1/2 acres) of corn with 2-bottom gang plow, 7-foot tandem disk, 4-section harrow, 2-row planters, cultivators, and pickers.]]> 2016-10-31 19:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342270 When: The Dust Bowl/Great Depression nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342330 While most Americans enjoyed relative prosperity for most of the 1920s, the Great Depression for the American farmer really began after World War I. Much of the Roaring '20s was a continual cycle of debt for the American farmer, stemming from falling farm prices and the need to purchase expensive machinery. When the stock market crashed in 1929 sending prices in an even more downward cycle, many American farmers wondered if their hardscrabble lives would ever improve.]]> 2016-10-31 19:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342330 Where: The Great Plains nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342379 During World War I, farmers worked hard to produce record crops and livestock. When prices fell they tried to produce even more to pay their debts, taxes and living expenses. In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.]]> 2016-10-31 19:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342379 How: Direct Cause of the Dust Bowl nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342496 Some 750,000 farms were lost between 1930 and 1935 through bankruptcy and foreclosure.
Then, to add to the misery in the Midwest, in 1934 the heat started – and kept on and kept on – with central Nebraska suffering through more than 20 days of temperatures higher than 100 degrees. All those acres that had been plowed up turned to dust and crops burnt up, and that was just the beginning.

In 1935 the dust storms started. 
]]> 2016-10-31 19:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342496 Works Cited nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342658 “The Farming Problem.” Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association, http://www.ushistory.org/us/49c.asp.
“Historical Timeline — 1930.” Agriculture in the Classroom, https://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/1930.htm.
Publications, Inc. Ogden. “U.S. Farmers During the Great Depression - Farm Life - Farm Collector.” Farm Collector, https://www.farmcollector.com/farm-life/u-s-farmers-during-great-depression?slideshow=5.
“Video » The Great Depression Hits Farms and Cities in the 1930s » Overproduction Leads to Low Prices « Iowa Pathways.” Video » The Great Depression Hits Farms and Cities in the 1930s » Overproduction Leads to Low Prices « Iowa Pathways, http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/artifact_detail.cfm?aid=a_000757&oid=ob_000064.]]> 2016-10-31 19:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134342658 Farm to Market Roads  nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134343092 Farmers started using roadways to transport large amounts of grain to sell. ]]> 2016-10-31 19:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134343092 How: The Dust Bowl nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134343726 After trying to keep up the rate of farming results from the 1920's, farmers directly caused the Dust Bowl to occur with the perfect combination of over-farming and drought.]]> 2016-10-31 19:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134343726 Why: Innovation was needed nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134344174 Much innovation was used with the government attempting to save farmers and their land. Many new programs were started including the Farm Act which is still a part of legislation today.]]> 2016-10-31 19:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134344174 Additional Resource nnelson8 https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134344572 Overproduction was a major cause of the downturn with farming. Agriculture took a huge turn when farmers started practicing rotation farming and irrigation. Much focus turned to farmers using better soil practices to protect the land.]]> 2016-10-31 19:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nnelson8/ntfr79wwf91i/wish/134344572