Worst of Farm Disasters was produced alongside the USDA's Rural Electrification Administration (REA) films Power and the Land and Bip Goes To Town.All three films document the life of an Ohio farm family, the Parkinsons, as they promote REA loans for modernization of small farms with electric service. Portrays the ever-present danger of fires on the farm resulting from reliance on kitchen cook stoves, kerosene lanterns and other traditional ways of farm life that would be improved through electrification. Narration conveys the message that "farms with electricity are more protected against fire loss than ever before, they are safer places to live for men and women."

]]> United States. Department of Agriculture. Rural Electrification Administration ]]> Kendall Foss]]> 1941]]> United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service]]> 1941]]> United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service]]> 1945]]> United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service]]> 1940]]> United States. Department of Agriculture. Extension Service]]> 1941]]> United States. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Adjustment Administration ]]> 1941]]> United States. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine]]> 1940]]> Distribution and sales catalog of 16mm and 35mm films and slidefilms produced by the United States Department of Agriculture.]]> United States. Department of Agriculture]]> United States. Department of Agriculture ]]> Wilding Picture Productions, Inc. : produced by]]> 1942]]> "Deals with the importance of oil production in America for purposes of warfare. Shows America producing billions of gallons of oil from flax, cotton seed, peanuts, and soybeans-now that import of oil from tropical trees has been cut off. Closing scenes show condensed foods and fats being sent to armies while numerous by-products are used in wartime industries" (Indiana University Extension Division Visual Aids Catalog Supplement, September 1945, 38). ]]> United States. Department of Agriculture]]> United States. Agricultural Adjustment Agency]]> 1943]]>