the farmers lost work because the could not sell anything because of the great depression.
The "Dust Bowl" was the loss of farmland to drought and erosion in the 1930s. Many farmers left the Great Plains during the height of the Great Depression (1934-1936) and migrated to other areas, especially California, where some found work as migrant laborers.
That was the Dust Bowl.
The Grapes of Wrath
the government dammed western rivers.
Cattle farming was too expensive, so many farmers moved out to the Plains for crop farming. There they had trouble with high interest in the banks, unfair railroad fees, and overproduction from other farmers.
During the Great Depression years, in the Dust Bowl states, located in the Great Plains, dust and dirt 'devoured' many crops leaving farmers without adequate earnings and crop yields.
The depression & drought hit farmers on the Great Plains Your Welcome ;D
inflation
Population declines during the Great Depression were primarily from...The plains states from Minnesota to Texas.
The nickname for plains farmers is okies.
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The "Dust Bowl" was the loss of farmland to drought and erosion in the 1930s. Many farmers left the Great Plains during the height of the Great Depression (1934-1936) and migrated to other areas, especially California, where some found work as migrant laborers.
They became the reluctant host to the Okies.
A problom that farmers faced during the last half of the 19Th century was cheating wifes.