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Far from improving, the conditions faced by Oklahoma's small-holding and tenant farmers remained abysmal into the first years of the 20th century. Farmers continued to suffer greatly unfavorable terms for credit or rent while receiving extremely low prices for the cotton, corn, and wheat which they produced. [21]
The Farm Bureau has heard from hundreds of Ohio farmers who don't know what they're going to do this coming winter when they don't have anything left to feed their animals. A few can't even keep ...
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
Oklahoma farmers considered their political activity during the early twentieth century due to the outbreak of war, depressed crop prices, and an inhibited sense of progression towards owning their own farms. Tenancy had been reportedly as high as 55% in Oklahoma by 1910. [63]
Nancy Crow and her husband, John Stitzlein, live on a 218-acre farm in Liberty Township in northern Fairfield County, one that grows thick with hay and corn and soybeans and memories.. A 1,000 ...
This planting season, Ohio crop farmers are worried about the weather as always, but also low commodity prices. New ethanol markets offer some hope. With 'record droughts' in income predicted ...
Farmers in high protest states faced high price variability due to the pattern of prices that was influenced by the railroad network that linked the states. Although, there is evidence that the drop in transportation costs caused farmers with suitable soils to diversify their crops in order to take advantage of relative farm gate prices.
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