(i) For the poorer farmers, machinery brought misery. It{any of them
deserted their farms and looked for jobs elsewhere.
(ii) But jobs were difficult to find. Mechanisation had reduced the need for
labour.
(iii) The boom of the late 19th century seemed to have come to an end by the
mid- 1920s.
(iv) After that, most farmers faced trouble. Production had expanded so
rapidly during the war and post-war years that there was a large surplus.
(v) Unsold stocks piled up, structures overflowed with grain and vast
amounts of corn and wheat were turned into animal feed.
(vi) Wheat prices fell and export workers collapsed. This created the
grounds for the great Agrarian Depression of the l930s that ruined
wheat farmers everywhere.