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  2. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural land and revenue boomed during World War I, but fell during the Great Depression and the 1930s. [43] [verification needed] The agricultural land most affected by the Dust Bowl was 16 million acres (6.5 million hectares) of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. These 20 counties that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Soil ...

  3. 1934–35 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    Excessive heat and drought problems affected the United States in 1934–35 from the Rocky Mountains, Texas and Oklahoma to parts of the Midwestern, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic states. These droughts and excessive heat spells were parts of the Dust Bowl and concurrent with the Great Depression in the United States.

  4. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

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    The Act also gave directives to conserve the soil in the "high plains"—soil that was being raised into huge dust bowls during the 1930s. This period, known as the Dust Bowl, coupled with the economic hardships of the Great Depression, hit farmers particularly hard. The act attempted to correct earlier government policy that encouraged farmers ...

  5. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    It hit Beaver, Oklahoma around 4 p.m., Boise City around 5:15, and Amarillo, Texas, at 7:20. [1] The conditions were the most severe in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, but the storm's effects were also felt in surrounding areas. [1] Drought, erosion, bare soil, and winds caused the dust to fly freely and at high speeds. [4]

  6. Agricultural Adjustment Act - Wikipedia

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    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. [8] "Farmers faced the most severe economic situation and lowest agricultural prices since the 1890s." [8] "Overproduction and a shrinking international market had driven down agricultural prices."

  7. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606–1860 (1925) Cronon, William. Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (2nd ed. 2003), excerpt and text search; Cunfer, Geoff. On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. (2005). 240 pp.

  8. Agricultural policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. agricultural policy reform was caused by the agricultural and budget pressures combined with the growth in the U.S. economy level and the developments in the agricultural sector. [15] The Crop Insurance Program was first proposed in the 1930s to assist agriculture recover from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. [16]

  9. Texas Farm Bureau - Wikipedia

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    During the Great Depression, Texas Farm Bureau was reorganized as the “Texas Agricultural Association” on March 6, 1934, in Dallas. In 1938, Texas Agricultural Association members voted to move the headquarters 90 miles (140 km) south to Waco. The organization operated for seven years under that name until members voted to restore the ...