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1906
Forgein demand for food surplus increased. Congress passed a pure food and drug act -
1910
Machiens drasticaly changed the amount of manpower needed on farms. Increased productivity -
1914
People were needed to continue in the producton of food and fiber -
1916
President Woodrow Wilson signed the Farm Credit Loan Act to provide long-term loans to farmers. -
1926
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.