“It’s more accurate,” Breimyer noted, “to say that Congress passed the new law because it was scared.” The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was just 33 pages long and appropriated $100 million to ...

That original bill, known as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, was passed in 1933 during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era. Its purpose was to establish a baseline of policies to support farm ...

The first real farm bill was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, part of the government’s New Deal response to the Great Depression, ... Over the 18 farm bills that have been passed since 1933, ...

By 1938, Congress passed a new Agricultural Adjustment Act, sans the offending tax. Farm bills have been passed about every five years ever since.

After the Supreme Court declared in January 1936 that the main mechanism of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, ... The Agriculture Act of 1961, enacted during the Kennedy administration, ...

The following year, Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The act paid farmers to destroy crops and livestock and leave land idle, thus ...

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) This body was set up by the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act. Its aim was to end overproduction and falling prices in farming. Farmers were paid to ...