Preliminary Estimate of Agricultural Conditions at the End of 1944, North Central States

Report Foreword: This statement is prepared by the Midwest Regional Committee on Post-War Programs of the United States Department of Agriculture, to serve as a current record of things happening to agriculture during the war period and a forecast of things that may need special attention after the war. Some agricultural problems have been temporarily solved or relieved by the "war boom". The solution to others has been merely delayed. New ones are in the making. This preliminary report proposes to record as clearly as we can see now the trend of happenings, and what stage they may reach by the end of 1944.