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Feeding the war effort: Agricultural experiences in First World War Devon

Agricultural History Review, (2010), 58(1), pp.95-112.

by

Bonnie White

Prepared by Michael Steer

Authors of studies of British agriculture in the First World War have argued that the labour crisis was not as severe as contemporaries believed, suggesting instead that replacement labour and greater access to farm machinery helped to offset the loss of agricultural labourers to the military. However, labour reports for Devon show a shortage of both men and horses on the land by late 1915 and the County War Agricultural Committee expressed concern that the continued removal of men from the land was in conflict with the need to increase home grown food. This article can be downloaded from British Agricultural History Society’s website (archived copy).