Question

Which statement best explains the conditions on farms at the beginning of the Great Depression?

Farmers during this time were unable to reach the production levels of earlier years because of a smaller available workforce.

Farmers could not sell their crops because no one had money to buy them, so a barter system developed in rural areas.

As the federal government acted to improve the economy, farming was surpassed by industry as the nation's top economic sector.

Because of an increase in the amount of foreign-grown crops imported into the country, American crops decreased in value.

Has to be one of the answers above

Answer 1

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Farmers could not sell their crops because no one had money to buy them, so a barter system developed in rural areas.