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Even though farmers suffered from low prices, many were still in better shape than city dwellers. Farmers could at least grow their own food unlike people in the cities. Farmers banded together like a labor union to prevent various products like milk from reaching towns and cities in order to raise the prices. The effort did not really have any effect on prices. The government stepped in to pass a bill to help the farmers to reduce production and surplus products. Limits on sizes of crops and herds that farmers could produce were set and farmers that agreed to limit production were paid subsidies.