NATS 1560 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4 : Organophosphate, Rodenticide, Insecticide
16 Mar 2017
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Machinery had two main effects on farms: it made farming more efficient, it made farmers borrow more money because machinery is so expensive. Farmers often took out second mortgages on their already paid for farms to pay for machinery. Thousands of farms were lost during the great depression because the prices of their commodities dropped during this time. Dust bowl of 1930"s in canada led to many farmers going out of business because most of the top soil was blown away. Machinery also made farms require less workers: many people who previously worked on farms often went to the city for work. Many farmers often sold or rented their land to nearby larger scale farms. Family owned farms usually divided the land among married children, but this led to some farms being too small to be economically viable: this led to many people looking for other work. In the 1950"s, farms that reached 100+ acres became common.
