Posted by MarkB_MI on September 04, 2009 at 02:50:50 from (166.203.111.164):
In Reply to: Re: Re dust bowl posted by TVB on September 03, 2009 at 19:40:24:
TVB,
That's not really true. It sounds like you're trying to paint the image of today's federal government (highly regulatory) onto the federal government of the '20's, which we all know was pretty much lassez faire.
The government of the '20s did not dictate how farmers tilled their land. But what the government did do was to set the homesteading policies: one quarter section of land, which was a lot in the eastern and midwestern states, but not much out west. So most homesteaders had little choice but to farm in order to survive on 160 acres. It didn't help that these farmers brought farm practices from the midwest and Europe to the arid Great Plains. Or that railroads promoted the absurd concept that "rain follows the plow".
As for the government driving the price of wheat up, that's not really true, either. There was a worldwide shortage of grain after the first world war. Market forces, not the federal government, were responsible for high prices.
Pretty much the entire US farm program, particularly price supports and soil conservation, are a direct result of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. They did not exist prior to the Dust Bowl, and to blame the Dust Bowl on non-existent farm programs is nonsensical.
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