The harvest is plentiful but the money is slim. At $0.33 cents a bushel, the price for wheat has dropped further than ever before and even a bumper harvest like this years is only going to bring a paycheck of $977 before expenses. You are going to need to pinch pennies to buy the necessities.

Farmers were constantly hopeful for a good crop at planting time of every new year. However, no crop, no matter how big, could compete with the plummeting prices of the Great Depression. Farmers were growing bushels upon bushels of wheat yet there was no place to sell it for a good price and not enough people who would buy it anyway.