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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a law that was a part of Roosevelt's New Deal Era that was created in order to amend the prosperity of agriculture by raising prices and reducing surpluses. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) and Commodity Credit Corporation
The goal of AAA was to repair the prices paid to farmers for their goods to a equal level of purchasing power similar to that of 1909-1914. Additionally, the Commodity Credit Corporation was established to make price-supporting loans and purchases of specific commodities -
Agricultural Act of 1956
The Agriculture Act of 1956 created the Soil Bank Program, addressed the disposal of Commodity Credit Corporation inventories of surplus stocks, contained commodity support program provisions, and contained forestry provisions. -
Farm Bill of 1985 - The Food Security Act
The Food Security Act of 1985 allowed lower commodity price and income supports and established a dairy herd buyout program. This farm bill made changes in a lot of other USDA programs. Several enduring conservation programs were created, one of which was the Conservation Reserve Program. -
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
The CRP a rental payment program where the government can pay farmers to take specific croplands out of production and in turn convert them to vegetative cover,The purpose of this program is to decrease land erosion, improve water quality, and affect wildlife benefits. -
Agricultural Act of 2014
The Farm Bill of 2014 was signed February 7, 2014 and it made some big changes in commodity programs, added new crop insurance options, streamlined conservation programs, modified some provisions of SNAP, and expanded programs for things like specialty crops, organic farmers, bioenergy, rural development, and beginning farmers and ranchers. -
Projected Outlays of 2014 Agricultural Act
At the time the bill had been signed, the Congressional Budget Office had projected that 80% of outlays under the Act would fund nutrition programs, 8% would fund crop insurance programs, 6% would fund conservation programs, 5% would fund commodity programs, and the remaining 1% would fund all other programs (things like trade, credit, research and extension, forestry, energy, etc.)
