Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 was a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that established long-term farm price and production controls, including acreage quotas, to stabilize agricultural markets.

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Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf New Deal legislation
United States federal statute
administeredBy Commodity Credit Corporation
United States Department of Agriculture
aimsTo maintain parity prices for farmers
prevent surpluses of basic agricultural commodities
appliesTo farmers in the United States
containsProvision Section 22 import quotas
marketing quota referenda by farmers
country United States of America
surface form: United States
coversCommodity corn
cotton
peanuts
rice
tobacco
wheat
enactmentDate 1938-02-16
enactmentYear 1938
era New Deal
establishes acreage quotas
loan rates for certain crops
marketing quotas
price support mechanisms
historicalSignificance created a permanent framework for U.S. farm programs
foundation for mid-20th-century U.S. agricultural policy
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: United States federal government
legalBasisFor federal marketing quotas for basic commodities
legislativeBody United States Congress
longTitleIncludes An Act to provide for the conservation of national soil resources and to provide for the orderly marketing of agricultural commodities
mechanism nonrecourse loans to farmers
parity price system
policyType farm price support policy
production control policy
presidentAtEnactment President Franklin D. Roosevelt
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt
purpose control agricultural production
stabilize agricultural markets
support farm income
regulates agricultural production in the United States
relatedTo Agricultural Act of 1949
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
replaces Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
requires farmer approval of marketing quotas by referendum
responseTo Supreme Court invalidation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
signedBy President Franklin D. Roosevelt
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt
subjectArea agricultural law
economic regulation
farm policy

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Wickard v. Filburn hasStatuteInvolved Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 relatedTo Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 replacedBy Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Roscoe C. Filburn associatedWith Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Agricultural Act of 1949 relatedTo Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 amends Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Agricultural Act of 1948 precededBy Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938