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Agriculture Adjustments Act
Part of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. -
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Farm Acts
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Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973
To extend and amend the Agriculture Act of 1970 for the purpose of assuring consumers of plentiful supplies of food and fiber at reasonable prices. -
Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973
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Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
provides for grants covering up to 30% of the cost of developing and building demonstration-scale biorefineries for producing "advanced biofuels", which essentially includes all fuels that are not produced from corn kernel starch. -
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
$288 billion, 5 year ag policy bill that was passed into law by the US Congress in 2008. The bill was a continuation of the 2002 Farm Bill. It continues the US long history of ag subsidies as well as pursuing areas such as energy, conservation, nutrition, and rural development. Some specific initiatives in the bill include increases in Food Stamp benefits, increased support for the production of cellulosic ethanol, and money for the research of pests, diseases and other ag problems.