The Role Of Agriculture In The 1920's

Though US agriculture seemed strong, it did not share in the prosperity of the booming 1920s. U.S. farmers were overproducing food, and they had done so since The Great War. At that time, Herbert Hoover was the federal government's food administrator. He pushed for a large increase in American agricultural production since European agricultural production was weak and Hoover wanted Americans to supply them with food. The wheat production in the US was growing considerably by the end of the war, before the war U.S. farmers were making around 690,000 bushels of wheat per year and by the end they were making almost a million bushels. Farming was able to improve considerably with the emergence of machinery. During the 1920s, agriculture employed