Why did Agriculture not share in the 1920'S boom?

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Why did Agriculture not share in the boom?

In the 1920’s, farmers and people alike were struggling to keep up with the highly efficient Canadian wheat producers. Many European countries suffered great bankruptcy from World War one and could no long afford to ship things like grain to they’re countries. To add to this, the American population had been gradually falling so there were fewer mouths to feed.

        

New machinery and technology were being made ad farmers tried to take advantage of this. This backfired. Farmers started to produce a lot of food like wheat and grain that very few people wanted. Just as the farming efficiency raised to the Canadians level, there was no one to buy or nowhere to ship all this produce. This all led to farming families rapidly losing money and supplying goods at rock bottom prices and which yet became a struggle to sell. The boom was leading people away from basic farming food and to other chains available to them.

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Another important reason was the lack of demand from the European market. During the war, tons of grain had been shipped by America to Europe, which made Europe, America’s biggest customer of grain. But, because of the devastation in the war, many European countries had been vastly bankrupt and very few countries could afford to buy farming goods anymore. To add to this, the republicans made it worse by the high tarrifs put up to protect America industries. This led to make Europe poorer so still it could not afford the American prices.

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