Farmers had already been struggling before the Great Depression. During the 1920s, the modernisation of farming, including the use of new fertilisers and farm machinery, had led to overproduction.

The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains ... ultimately leading to the Great Depression. One of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history, Seabiscuit was the long ...

Tariffs have raised concerns in the U.S. and other countries for centuries, including during the Great Depression. Here's why ...

He introduced monetary stimulus programs designed to ease the Great Depression, including Social Security. Workers received unemployment benefits, farmers were given assistance for failed (or ...

It was so dry in the summer of 1976 that Wisconsin’s farmland broke into pieces. The earth fragmented, the choking fields warning of a barren harvest and so much more. America’s small family ...

Federal farm programs are fragmented and often ineffective, leaving farmers vulnerable to economic hardship. Recent spending cuts by the Trump administration have highlighted the precarious position ...

Farmers had also been encouraged to take ... Hoover had completely underestimated the length and the severity of the Great Depression. It wasn’t the normal cycle of ‘boom and bust’, but ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is blamed for deepening the Great Depression. Don’t tell that to the Trump administration ...

President Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as his exemption of North American trade agreement-protected goods, has led to a hands-off approach from Congress, which has been ...