From the beggining of the 20th century to the start of World War II there was a huge rollercoaster happening in the wheat business.
The prices climbed sharply before World War I and peaked after its end. European farm production was able to guarantee years of low prices and the American agriculture was deemed to a great depression even before the stock market crash of 1929. The prices climbed in the mid-1930s and then plunged again. Not until World War II did America sustained increases in price and demand.
