How did improved transportation affect farming? more people farmed because they could reach distant farmlands. fewer people farmed because they could travel to other jobs. more people farmed because they could transport crops easily. fewer people farmed because railways destroyed farmlands.

Improved transportation affected farming;

More people farmed because they could transport crops easily.

Improved transportation affect farming because more people farmed because they could transport crops easily. Option three is correct.

Farming industry was benefited by improved transportatio due to the fact that farmers who lived and worked in rural areas were able to ship their produce to urban market by using transportation such as the railroad. They could also receive the latest supplies  as well as tools and technologies required to farm.

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939