Langer later is indicted, convicted and ultimately acquitted on charges of illegally trying to obtain political funds from federal employees. They also kept members informed on rationing, bond sales, salvage drives and Red Cross fund drives. In 1943, Extension recruits 33,000 students and 18,105 adults into the Victory Farm Volunteer program, with similar numbers in 1944 and 1945. The agency is responsible for transportation, placement and supervision. Specialists and agents recruit from elsewhere and accompany workers on trains.
Extension also promotes labor-saving devices and custom harvesting.
In 1943 alone, imported workers shock 450,000 acres of grain in 29 counties. Another 5,600 U.S. Army airmen and soldiers awaiting equipment and assignments are brought in. In the late 1940s, extension workers helped organize emergency hay lifts into western North Dakota due to tough winters. Agents help farmers with soil bank a new strain of wheat stem rust. Livestock is on the upswing because of automation.