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Agriculture Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. -
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Agriculture administration act
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Farm Bill Ruled Unconstitutional
Ruled unconstitutional. On January 6, 1936, the Supreme Court decided in United States v. Butler that the act was unconstitutional for levying this tax on the processors only to have it paid back to the farmers. Regulation of agriculture was deemed a state power. -
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Pub.L. 74–461, enacted February 29, 1936) is a United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion. -
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1948
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is a wholly owned United States government corporation that was created in 1933 to "stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices" (federally chartered by the CCC Charter Act of 1948 (P.L. 80-806)). ... It issues payments in the form of commodity certificates. -
Food and Agriculture Act 1962
Food and Agriculture Act of 1962. An Act to maintain farm income, to stabilize prices and assure adequate supplies of agricultural commodities, to reduce surpluses, lower Government costs and promote foreign trade, to afford greater economic opportunity in rural areas, and for other purposes. -
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
DescriptionThe Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 — P.L. 101-624 was a 5-year omnibus farm bill that passed Congress and was signed into law. -
Agriculture Act of 2014
The Agricultural Act of 2014 (H.R. 2642; Pub.L. 113–79, also known as the 2014 U.S. Farm Bill), formerly the "Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013", is an act of Congress that authorizes nutrition and agriculture programs in the United States for the years of 2014-2018.
