What were the working conditions of farmers in the 1930's?

Life was very hard for the farmers during the 1930's. Most had been in a downward economic spiral since the end of the first world war. Government programs helped them to make it through the Depression. However, farmers in the Plains states suffered a devastating drought known as the Dust Bowl, which resulted in many of them abandoning their farms, and heading to California to work as itinerant farm workers.