Being a farmer in 1920’s America was a hard life because The Great Depression started sooner for them than many Americans. This was caused by the overgrowth of certain crops that made the prices spiral downward so finally the federal government decided they would pay farmers to grow less of certain crops and animals to make the prices of them go back up to where they were before the First World War. This started to turn into a good thing for these farmers because they were able to get themselves out of their debt and start being able to provide for their families what they hadn’t been able to do before. The press and the public didn’t think this was an entirely good thing because it at a time when a lot of people were out of work and starving
