These developments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1930s. In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized.

这些发展被大萧条恶化了，它始于1929年，一直延续到20世纪30年代。1929年，在赫伯特·胡佛总统的领导下，联邦农业委员会成立了。