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Long title: An Act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes.
Agricultural Adjustment Act Amendment of 1935; Other short titles: Potato Control Act of 1935: Long title: An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes. Enacted by: the 74th United States Congress: Effective: August 24, 1935: Citations; Public law: 74-320: Statutes at Large: 49 Stat. 750: Codification; Titles amended ...
This is an article about the "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938". For the act by the same name in 1933, see Agricultural Adjustment Act.. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (Pub. L. 75–430, 52 Stat. 31, enacted February 16, 1938) was legislation in the United States that was enacted as an alternative and replacement for the farm subsidy policies, in previous New Deal farm legislation ...
Some of the agencies still exist today, while others have merged with other departments and agencies or were abolished. The agencies were sometimes referred to as alphabet soup. Libertarian author William Safire notes that the phrase "gave color to the charge of excessive bureaucracy."
The purpose of the agency was to divert agricultural commodities from the open market, where prices were depressed by surplus farm products, to destitute families. [1] As of 2012, the federal purchase and distribution of surplus food still continues, now under the auspices of the Emergency Food Assistance Program.
Back in 1933, during the height of the Great Depression, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was built out as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The purpose of the program ...
The act attempted to correct earlier government policy that encouraged farmers to use their land without concern to the repercussions. The result of these agricultural methods (mostly the way farmers plowed their land) made it vulnerable to the winds. The dry ground, now exposed, rose up to create the "black storms".
Another predecessor of the FSA was the Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933, which was intended as a program to help stabilize farm prices via price support loans to create crop reduction. The initial act was ruled unconstitutional in 1936 by United States v.