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Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was the very first Farm Bill. This is where it all began! The AAA was a federal law that passed in 1933 under the presidency of Franklin D Roosevelt, it was a part of his New Deal.
Simply the law had asked farmers to plant a limited amount of crops, if they, complied they would receive a federal subsidy. The subsidies were paid for by tax on the companies that processed the crops. By limiting the supply of crops the government had hoped to increased prices -
2008 Farm Bill: The Food Conservation and Energy Act
Congress enacted this law which contains various provisions that affect food stamp eligibility, benefits, and program administration. It contains 15 titles covering support for commodity crops, horticulture, livestock production, foresty, and more.
The bill added new titles containing provisions to address horticulture and livestock issues adding funding for specialty crop funds. Yjr bill's nutrition sector increased food stamp benefits and set new standards to make households more eligible. -
2012-2013 Farm Bill Expired
During 2012-2013 the previous Farm Bill had expired which then had to be recreated and revised It took a while for the new bill, 2014 bill, to be created and passed but, in 2014 the new bill was passed. -
2014 Farm Bill
This bill reshaped the structure of farm commodity support, expanded crop insurance coverage, reauthorize/revise nutrition assistance, and extend authority to appropriate funds to the USDA.
This bill restructured farm support for traditional program crops via eliminating direct payments, the CCP, and the ACRE program. The savings from this was used to offset costs of revising the remaining programs.
It also restructured and revised the SNAP and LIHEAP, and more areas of the bill. -
2018 Farm Bill
Since it is now 2017, Congress is beginning to start looking at the Farm Bill (2014) to see where it can be revised and where they can see what programs need more help, where cuts can be made to save money, and see how they can do the best to benefit farmers as well as lower the cost of the bill all together.
