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Neil Dahlstrom

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Jul 7, 2026

7:04
How did events like the Dust Bowl, the droughts, and the Depression impact how non-farming America thought about farmers and rural residents, would you say?
7:16
Yeah, I think especially that era, the Great Depression, it kind of – people returned to the farm.
7:25
You know, there was a huge loss of, of jobs, of course, um, across the United States.
7:31
And so there was a return, um, to, to the farm for a lot of people, not necessarily new investment in, in farming, but I'm going to return to the family farm and I'm going to help out because there's work to do every day.
7:43
There's outcome.
7:45
Um, I, I can grow the food again that I'm, that I'm, I'm going to eat.
7:50
Um, And then when things start to pick up again in the mid-30s, the government gets involved through some agricultural subsidies for the first time.

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14:01
I think

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