Crisis+In+The+Farm+Sector

media type="youtube" key="gplaqa2yRgg" height="344" width="425" Farm prices of most types dropped even lower with the onset of the Depression. As city people trimmed back meat purchases, a relative luxury item, the markets for finished pigs and cattle dropped to the point where in some case a farmer got less money for their livestock than it cost to ship the livestock to market. Even nature was an enemy throughout the Depression. Severe droughts of the era and resulting dust storms destroyed crops and stripped topsoil."**
 * "The roots of the depression on the farms actually began in the 1920's when low commodity prices led many farmers to borrow money to fill the void. Some also borrowed heavily to keep pace wiht the times with new mororized equipment, especially tractors and trucks. Then, with the Depression, as bankers became fearful of repayment, many began to demand loans repaid, but many farmers could not repay. In many cases they were evicted off what had been their land. The famous book, "Grapes of Wrath" outlines the tragic nauture of this in a mythical Oklahoma community. The novel also describes how new farm machinery of the era could do so much more with less workers, and this also pushed people into unemployment.