New Deal agricultural programs

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New Deal agricultural programs were a series of U.S. federal initiatives in the 1930s that sought to stabilize farm prices, reduce surpluses, and support farmers through subsidies and production controls during the Great Depression.

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instanceOf United States federal government program
agricultural policy initiative
appliesToJurisdiction United States
basedOn parity price concept
country United States
criticizedFor destruction of crops and livestock to raise prices
unequal benefits for large landowners over tenants and sharecroppers
endTime late 1930s (as original New Deal phase)
focusesOn corn production
cotton production
dairy production
hog production
rice production
rural credit
rural electrification
soil conservation
sugar production
tobacco production
wheat production
hasEffect expansion of federal role in agriculture
increase in farm income
reduction in agricultural overproduction
hasPart Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Bankhead Cotton Control Act
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act
Commodity Credit Corporation
Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933
Farm Credit Act of 1933
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Security Administration
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act
Jones-Costigan Act
Resettlement Administration
Rural Electrification Act of 1936
Rural Electrification Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
Sugar Act of 1937
Tennessee Valley Authority agricultural initiatives
extension and education programs for farmers
implementedBy Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
United States Department of Agriculture
inception Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
influenced long-term U.S. agricultural policy
postwar U.S. farm subsidy system
legislatedBy United States Congress
mainGoal reduction of agricultural surpluses
stabilization of farm prices
support for farmers
opposedBy some business interests
some conservative politicians
partOf New Deal
significantEvent Supreme Court invalidation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
enactment of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
passage of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
startTime 1933
targetPopulation American farmers
sharecroppers
tenant farmers
temporalLocation Great Depression
uses acreage reduction contracts
farm subsidies
marketing quotas
parity pricing
price supports
production controls

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