Rural Life

Agriculture during the 1930's was affected by the depression and by the great droughts. Many farmowners became tenants. The general trend was from some form of land-tenure status to farm wage hand, to nonfarm employment, or to unemployment. During this same period, however, there was a tremendous increase in the farm use of electricity and in the development and adaptation of new methods of animal and agricultural production. The increase in federal services and aids to farm and rural people made for tremendous changes in rural life. These changes were a accompanied by other cultural changes which were caused in part by mechanized farming. It would appear that there has been an increase in the economic and social stratification of the farmer, accompanied by a realization of farm people of their interrelation with the Great Society

Agricultural economics · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Nonfarm payrolls · Political science · Production (economics) · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Unemployment · Wage · Wage labour · Agricultural Economics and Policy