Answer:
The correct answer is C. Farmers sought new technology to help with the workload.
Explanation:
During the second world war, there was a shortage of food because most of the farmers and their sons were forced to go in the war and because the more investment were on military weapons not on farming equipment.
So after and during the second world war, the government started many research programs in the agriculture department which results in the discovery of new technologies in the agriculture industry.
By, 1940 U.S governments started spending almost 40 % of total money in research and development to improve technology-based farming.
So, the correct answer is C. Farmers sought new technology to help with the workload.
