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agriculture in the 1900s
During the 1900s people who lived in the industrial cities and towns benefited from the effects of mass production.However many people living in the agriculture side of areas could not afford to but the new goods and suffered from the effects of mass production.Before mass production farming techniques were based off muscle power.This involving hundreds of employees to plant and harvest crops. -
agriculture in the 1920s
in the 1920s farmers had been going through a rough time especially with income and with all the new farming equipment coming out it was hard for farmers to keep competition a lot of farmers couldn’t afford the financial billing and payments of the farming equipment and when they couldn’t keep up with billing and money flow they would get kicked off there land. -
agriculture in the 1930s
In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.Farmers who borrowed money for the boom couldn’t afford to pay their debts.It was a really hard time for people in the agriculture industry especially when the great depression hit and prices dropped so low almost half of Americans lost there farms due to going bankrupt and not being able to afford farming equipment to save their farm. -
how agricultural changes in 1940
in 1940 the war hit and it affected families,jobs and America,It also affected agriculture so much to where they were pulling farmers employees to come and serve an fight in the war so the only thing farmers could rely on was tractors and with prices it was just too much so a lot of farmers went out of business. -
the affect of the after war 1950 and how it affected agriculture
after the war in 1940 almost 26,000 farms in America lost employees to industrial jobs this was a very hard time for agriculture and farming but most farmers upgraded equipment and got tractors so not much employment was needed this is when farming was getting into more advanced farming equipment and farmers where able to get back up on there feet and grow crops -
how farming changed in1960s
science and technology had grown farming so much in the 1960s scientists made weed killers and chemical fertilizers and the tractors were advanced and add-ons were popular for different feilds this was a good time for agriculture and it was getting back up from the great depression it is still in the late years of the great depression. -
the farm crisis in 1980
the farm crisis was when intended to bring farm prices down brought them up instead to 60% and in some parts of the mid west in 1981-1985 and farm rates dropped -
100 years of agriculture mark 2000s
in the early 2000s the farm life was challenging but families were very self-sufficient.farmer were able to grow their own food including fruits, vegetables, eggs and meat. Summer produce was canned in order to feed the family during the winter months. -
agriculture in 2010
the farming life was getting better and easier a lot of newer machines and the market is running great at this time. -
2022 agricultural
the agriculture now is doing ok but considering gas prices and prices in general going up it is hard for farmers to make even cash flow but with the prices comes money so it is a win and a lose situation