FARMING IN THE 1920S AND 30S (SHIRE)

With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and '30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive. Jonathan Brown here examines the challenges that farmers faced and the ways in which they responded. It was hard work whichever direction was taken, but the effect of these innovations was to transform the farming landscape from what it had been in Victorian and Edwardian times.