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Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)
This was a law signed by President FDR during the New Deal era. This program reduced surplus and raised crop prices to help farmers. Farmers could receive subsidy payments in exchange for agreeing to reduce the production of certain commodity crops. -
United States v. Butler
This was a Supreme Court case that focused on if the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was constitutional and if the federal government had the power to tax and spend money for "general welfare." SCOTUS ruled in favor of Butler and the AAA was ruled unconstitutional. Therefore the federal government could not force the states to adopt it Act due to a lack of jurisdiction. -
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
This AAA Act was signed because the previous AAA Act was ruled unconstitutional. So this Act was the replacement. This Act also saw improvement in soil conservation. It also created a flow of agricultural commodities in interstate and domestic commerce -
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938
This Act was signed to make sure that foods are safe to eat, drugs safe to take, and cosmetics safe to use. The food had to be wholesome safe to eat and produced in sanitary conditions. Drugs had to be safe and effective for their intended uses. And finally, cosmetics had to be safe and not have any dangerous ingredients, and all labeling and packaging be informative and not deceptive -
Agricultural Act of 1948
This Act was signed by President Harry S. Truman. This law created multiple agricultural policy reforms. Which included mandatory price supports for basic commodities at 90% of parity. Then it also mandated that in 1950, parity would begin to incorporate price averages of the previous ten years and the 1910-14 base period.
Parity is defined as, "a fair exchange value for agricultural products." -
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954
This was the biggest part of the Agricultural Act of 1954. Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This created the Food for Peace, the primary and first permanent US organization for food assistance to foreign nations. -
Food Stamp Act of 1964
This Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. And it gave legislative authority to the Food Stamp Program, which had been administratively implemented on a pilot basis in 1962. -
Food and Agricultural Act of 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. Created a farm bill that continued JFK's programs of voluntary acreage reductions and expansion of markets without the mandatory controls that JFK wanted as well. The bill also expanded both the Food Stamp Program and the Food for Peace Program. -
Agriculture Act of 1970
This Act was signed by President Richard Nixon
"This act moves away from the strict control structure of past farm legislation. It is designed to protect and improve farm income, and it gives producers a greater opportunity to expand and improve their farming operations. It also extends Public Law 480, the Food for Peace program; the [National] Wool Act [of 1954]; and several valuable dairy programs." -
Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980
This Act was signed by President Jimmy Carter. And its purpose was to encourage participation in the expanded crop insurance program, the 1980 Act authorized a subsidy equal to 30 percent of the crop insurance premium limited to the dollar amount at 65 percent coverage. -
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
This was a 5-year farm bill that ]established a Rural Development Administration (RDA) in the USDA to administer programs relating to rural and small community development. It extended and modified the Food Stamp Program and other domestic nutrition programs and made major changes. It also created and add several other programs as well -
The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
The act directs approximately 16.5 billion dollars of funding toward agricultural subsidies each year. These subsidies have a dramatic effect on the production of grains, oilseeds, and upland cotton. -
Agricultural Act of 2014
The 2014 Farm Act makes major changes in commodity programs, adds new crop insurance options, streamlines conservation programs, modifies some provisions of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and expands programs for specialty crops, organic farmers, bioenergy, rural development, and beginning farmers and ranchers. -
Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018
The 2018 Farm Bill was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump. The Bill continues funding for USDA’s major programs in addition legalized "hemp production for all purposes within the parameters laid out in the statute." It is composed of 12 key titles: commodities, conservation, nutrition, credit, rural development, research, forestry, energy, horticulture, crop insurance, & miscellaneous.