The root cause of the american farmers problems after 1880 was the overproduction, the fall in the prices of food items below the cost of production is a sign that this evolution was perhaps too fast, leading to farmers' discontent and a series of concerns in the economic and political field. However, with the rise in prices of agricultural products and the value of the land from 1899 to 1914, and with better roads and agricultural machinery, the farmer's economic situation improved and rural life became less unpleasant.