Farmers had already been struggling before the Great Depression. During the 1920s, the modernisation of farming, including the use of new fertilisers and farm machinery, had led to overproduction.

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929 ... underconsumption by the public of their produce. Farmers had also been encouraged to take out loans ...

The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains ... long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression. During the Great Depression, Americans built the Hoover Dam, overcoming ...

Without such measures, the entire banking system was vulnerable: Deposits may have swelled during ... Great Depression, including Social Security. Workers received unemployment benefits, farmers ...

During the 1930s, drought and economic depression forced prairie farmers to abandon their farms to find work in the cities. Pictured here, settlers leaving farms in the "dry belt" areas in ...

The confrontation had been brewing for months as Iowa's bovine tuberculosis testing program met fierce resistance from dairy farmers who feared financial ruin during the Great Depression.