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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.
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 ...
Executive Order 11110 was issued by U.S. President John F. Kennedy on June 4, 1963.. This executive order amended Executive Order 10289 (dated September 17, 1951) [1] by delegating to the Secretary of the Treasury the president's authority to issue silver certificates under the Thomas Amendment of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended by the Gold Reserve Act.
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 Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-213) amended the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (P.L. 95–113), primarily to raise the target prices for wheat and corn. The H.R. 3398 legislation was passed by the 96th U.S. Congressional session and signed into law by the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter on March 18, 1980.
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is the United States Department of Agriculture agency that was formed by merging the farm loan portfolio and staff of the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) and the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS). The Farm Service Agency implements agricultural policy, administers credit and loan ...
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 ...
The 1934 version of the Jones-Costigan Act was overturned in 1936 when the Supreme Court ruled the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in United States v. Butler. The bill contained a subsidy for growers, supported by a tax levied on processors. In the case of sugar, the tax amounted to one half cent per pound.