The Great Depression modified the lives of individuals who lived on and cultivated the Great Plains and thus, changed America. Although farmers stumbled upon multiple farming obstacles during this time, the agriculture was more extensively impacted when the national economy declined in the 1920s. Amid this time period, agriculturists attempted to adapt to the low offering costs of their harvests. These lower costs implied that farmers expected to develop more real estate, including poorer farmlands, or change crop assortments to sufficiently deliver grain to meet their required hardware and homestead needs. Farmers’ income had declined steadily during the decade because of overproduction of cash crops, falling crop prices, rising farm costs,…