+"Iowa United States USA" +1939 stock footage and images

Corn and wheat harvesters at work, and poor tenant farmers line up for government distributed food in the United States.

Over supply of produce due to mechanization causes crisis for tenant farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. In Iowa: Farmland with a farm house, haystacks, cows and pigs. American farmer brings hay stacked in a wagon. A woman pulls a horse to haul the load up through an opening into the barn. Horses work on a farm, machines on a farm. A corn field. Farmers operate a corn harvester. A wheat harvester at work in a wheat field. Poor farmers and women of farm families wait outside a building to get government distributed food, due to Great Depression and glut in wheat and corn prices due to overproduction. Men, women and children stand in bread line seeing food aid. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women in need of relief. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.