How were farmers in USA affected by the Great Depression?
farmers were affected on a basic level due to the drop in prices. Crops were worthless and could not be sold for enough money to sustain their families. They were also affected on a more physical level, at least throughout the plains. During the “Dirty Thirties,” the Dust Bowl wreaked havoc across the plains, creating monstrous dust storms that ravaged crops, killed livestock and caused farmers to leave in droves, inspiring novels such as the Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. The country was devastated by speculative bust and boom of the great depression, an erosion of a sense of the economy, and the land was devastated by the unnatural erosion of sand by farmers who ripped up the natural grasses of the plains to plant their crops. This left the area vulnerable to the high winds of the plains.
