How were farmers affected by the Great Depression?
Similarly, it is asked, what were some of the problems that farmers faced during the Depression?
Some of the problems that people faced during the depression were that because they were unemployed they did not have enough money to pay their bills and debt. Some families were forced to split up so they could find work. To help pay for food some children had to drop out of school and take very low paying jobs.
Regarding this, why did farmers destroy their crops during the Great Depression?
In May 1933 the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed. This act encouraged those who were still left in farming to grow fewer crops. The AAA paid farmers to destroy some of their crops and farm animals. In 1933 alone, $100 million was paid out to cotton farmers to plough their crop back into the ground!
National farm income fell from a high of $16.9 billion in 1919 to only $5.3 billion in 1932. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933 paid farmers to reduce the number of acres they planted in crops such as tobacco, peanuts, and cotton. By restricting production, the law was intended to boost prices.