Across
- 2. the countryside
- 3. low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
- 4. weather in a particular area
- 5. the first Kansas farmers
- 7. a place where farmers come together to sell produce directly to consumers, usually off the back of their trucks
- 9. prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.
- 11. gather a crop
- 13. Kansas throughout the 20th century became known as the
- 15. the loose surface material that covers most land
- 16. machinery used to plow crops
- 18. growing crops
- 19. a market structure where a single seller or producer assumes a dominant position in an industry or a sector
- 20. the practice of farming
Down
- 1. the production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed.
- 6. plant that is the most important kind grown in temperate countries
- 8. "The _______ twenties"
- 10. horses eat
- 12. cereal crop used as food.
- 14. the study of how people allocate scarce resources for production, distribution, and consumption, both individually and collectively
- 16. number one crop in Kansas
- 17. a plant or plant product that can be grown and harvested for profit or subsistence