Excerpt from the report Introduction: The report on farm labor in the United States which follows is the work of several agencies of the Department of Agriculture, particularly the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Farm Security Administration. The main purpose of the cooperating agencies has been to assemble in a single study the most important facts about the highly varied conditions of farm employment. Much has been written on the subject already but most of this has covered isolated or special aspects of the many problems in the farm labor field. It was felt, therefore, that an over-all study would be of value.