Our daughter (history major) sent me a book on the Dust Bowl. The price of wheat was good in the late 1920's
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Toss that book in the Dumpster.
Wheat hit $2.45 a bushel in 1918, then collapsed shortly afterward. It was down to a $1.00 a bushel in 1923 then rose to $1.50 in 1926 before it began a steady decline (back to a $1.00 in 1928). By the time the dust bowl started (in 1931) wheat was at .55 a bushel.
It wasn't the high prices that drove farmers to break out more land to plant but lack of income that drove them to attempt to raise any kind of cash crop they could put in. Corn prices took a similar price ride over the same years.
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