Railroads in the west got rights of way for as much as ten miles on either side of the tracks. Towns sprang up where steam locomotives had to stop to get water. In those towns, the railroads built storage silos to accumulate the farmers' crops until a quantity was sufficient to load grain cars in an economical way. If a farmer did not use the railroad silos and the railroad cars, the crops would spoil before they could be transported in any other way to processing plants. There was no alternative, there was no competition. Whatever the railroad charged was the monopoly cost of getting that season's crop to market.
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Strikes by the farmers took place throughout the United States in 1932. These strikes were to protest the low prices they received for the products they were selling such as corn, wheat, and livestock.
The political goal of farmers was lower prices for grain storage.
The Farmers' Alliance was designed to promote higher commodity prices through collective action by groups of individual farmers. It grew out of the Grange Movement.
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