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A farm crisis is an American term for a time of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes. The Interwar farm crisis was an extended period of depressed agricultural incomes from the end of the First to the start of the Second World War. The most recent US farm crisis occurred during the 1980s. [1] [2] [3]
The percentage of Americans who live on a farm diminished from nearly 25% during the Great Depression to about 2% now, [8] and only 0.1% of the United States population works full-time on a farm. As the agribusiness lobby grows to near $60 million per year, [ 9 ] the interests of agricultural corporations remain highly represented.
The 2014 federal farm bill provided the first opportunity for subdivision, within limits, but only after millions of preserved acres had already prohibited that. Many farmers are still crafting ...
Barn on tenant's farm in Walker County, Alabama, 1937. Tenant farming characterized the cotton and tobacco production in the post-Civil War South. As the agricultural economy plummeted in the early 1930s, all farmers were badly hurt but the tenant farmers and sharecroppers experienced the worst of it. [14]
An avian flu epidemic has driven them up 53% during the last year, with some stores running short and charging $10 or more for a dozen. The Agriculture Dept. expects egg prices to soar by another ...
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. It succeeded the Resettlement Administration (1935–1937). [1] The FSA is famous for its small but highly influential photography program, 1935–1944, that portrayed the challenges of rural ...
The United States experienced a major farm crisis during the 1980s. By the mid-1980s, the crisis had reached its peak. Land prices had fallen dramatically leading to record foreclosures. Farm debt for land and equipment purchases soared during the 1970s and early 1980s, doubling between 1978 and 1984.
The highways into Sioux City and Council Bluffs, Iowa, were blocked by pickets who dumped farm produce on the side of the road. [3] At Le Mars, Iowa some farmers dragged a judge out of his courtroom, placed a noose around his neck, and threatened to hang him unless he stopped approving farm foreclosures. The striking farmers were countered by ...