Farmers in North Carolina prepare a field in preparation for the 1936 spring planting season.

A tenant farmer and his family outside of Danville, Virginia, prepare to plant tobacco.

In this photograph from 1936, a farmer plants corn in Lancaster County, Nebraska.

A man sows seed by hand at the American Colony in Jerusalem in the early 1900s.

A New Hampshire farmer sorts his beans in preparation for spring planting in 1940.

A farmer in a U.S. federal rural rehabilitation program prepares to plant corn in Jefferson County, Kansas.

Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress