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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The first Farm Bill targeted wheat, cotton, corn, hogs tobacco and milk because the changes in prices of these items effected the prices of other important commodities. These commodities also had a great surplus and require human processing. -
AAA Increasing Income
Income was 50% higher than the year prior, partly due to farm programs. -
Soil Conservation Act
This act was to fund farmers who began to establish soil conservation practices to protect our land. The Dust Bowl spanned from 1930-1936. This act was the beginning of an awakening to protect our soils. -
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment
During this time people were becoming aware of the importance of soils. This Farm Bill became established after the Soil Conservation Act of 1935. After the effects of the dust bowl it became apparent that we needed to protect our soils and land for the future. -
Barn in Walker County, Alabama
This photo was taken by Arthur Rothstien for the Farm Security Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act#/media/File:Walker_County_Alabama_Barn.jpg -
Agriculture Act of 1956
This Farm Bill dealt with the surpluses of crops by creating the Soil Bank, which was about 29 million acres of production fields. These fields were taken out of production because of the quantity of commodities that were being grown at the time.
The programs set in place helped not to grow too much food, but also reduce erosion. The government payed farmers to not use their land during this time as an act of conservation. -
Food and Agriculture Act
This Farm Bill provided a 4 year comedy programs for wheat, grains a and cotton. During this time the government continued payments and diversion programs to farms which needed feed grains and cotton. Known as the Emergency Feed Grain Act.
Also during this time, the government still tried to take control of the supply levels. They continued to make payments to farmers to convert their cropland to conserve the soil and water life and even prevent pollution in the air or water. -
Farm Assistance Programs
The graph shows the number of farm assistance programs during particular times and the farm household income. -
Agriculture and Food Act
This Farm Bill wasn't very supportive to the fair industry and lowered support and freeze dairy loans.
It also modified the commodity programs which give financial support payments to farmers of various crops such us wheat, corn, soybeans, oats and others!
