Grain Production
For a time yields were high, but a combination of the dry conditions and poor agricultural practices turned the area into a Dust Bowl in the 1930s, helping plunge Canada into the Great Depression. Modern farming techniques and a series of rainy years helped to reestablish the area as an important farming region; however, farming has always been precarious, and to this day the area's farmers often receive large government subsidies to deal with drought conditions.
Palliser was right, as a number of people who have lived in this area will attest.
Read more about this topic: Palliser's Triangle
Famous quotes containing the words grain and/or production:
“With a grain of salt.”
—Pliny The Elder (23–79)
“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)