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Harvest war crops, 1945 (Historic Poster Collection, NAL’s Special Collections)
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In 1943, the Extension Service, War Food Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, developed the Women’s Land Army in its Farm Labor Program. One purpose of the WLA was to recruit and place inexperienced nonfarm women who were willing to help wherever they were needed. Women did almost every type of farm work and proved to be an important factor in the United States’ record food production in 1944.
Find an overview of the program's structure and administration in Women and wartime farm work : a study of eight midwest states, 1944.
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