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Agriculture and The Great Depression

  During the Great Depression, people had to suffer by trying to find food and shelter for their families. Agriculture played an extremely important role in helping the economy get back on its feet. The agriculture programs provided jobs to the unemployed and helped to give families food and adequete homes. These programs included the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). and finally the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Below is a brief summary of all the programs that were in effect.

The Civilian Conservation Corps helped plant millions of trees. This was especially important to the Dust Bowl because the trees helped keep the soil together and this programs helped employ thousands of unskilled men.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act basically allowed the government to controll crops such as wheat, cotton,corn, rice, and peanuts by giving the farmers money for a peice of their land. This land would be idle, and the rest of the crops would have a higher price. This increased income for three years.

The Soil Conservation Service was created to help find out ways to decrease soil erosion for better farming and planting. They would set out "stations" and experiment there. 

The Rural Electrification Administration helped provide inexpensive electricity and phone service. They also provided interest free loans for farmers and gave others jobs by hiring those who knew how to work with electricity.

The Farm Security Administration helped improve the life styles of poor living farmers and resettle them into group farms that had better, suitable land.

By the following chart, you could see how the umemployment rate peaked during 1933. The significance of this chart is that on the source containing this, about 1/2 were farmers or any other work related to agriculture. Now, due to the five programs, you can see the decrease in this rate as the years went on with the programs still active.

The above speech was given by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on September 6,1936. He describes the farmers and laborers and the hardships they were enduring.

 This song from Bing Crosby - Brother, Can You Spare A Dime, was song to describe the hardships of the Great Depression. In the song, it protrays everything from farming and how it affected everyone.

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