Agricultural Adjustment Administration

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The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was a New Deal agency that sought to raise agricultural prices and support farmers by reducing crop surpluses through government intervention and subsidies.

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instanceOf New Deal agency
United States federal agency
alsoKnownAs AAA
appliesToJurisdiction United States of America
surface form: United States
beneficiary American farmers
country United States of America
surface form: United States
createdByAct Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
criticizedFor benefiting large landowners over tenant farmers
destruction of crops and livestock to raise prices
dissolved 1942
documentedIn United States farm policy history
fieldOfWork agricultural economics
economic planning
foundedBy United States government
surface form: United States federal government
hasEffect expansion of federal role in agriculture
increase in farm prices
reduction of agricultural surpluses
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
historicalPeriod New Deal
surface form: First New Deal

Great Depression
implementedUnder President Franklin D. Roosevelt
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
inception 1933
influenced later U.S. farm subsidy programs
jurisdiction federal
legalBasis Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
legalEvent key provisions declared unconstitutional in 1936
mainActivity controlling agricultural production
implementing crop reduction programs
paying subsidies to farmers
namedAfter agricultural adjustment policies
notablePolicyArea crop control
farm subsidies
parentOrganization United States Department of Agriculture
partOf New Deal
purpose raise agricultural prices
reduce crop surpluses
support farm incomes
relatedCase United States v. Butler
replacedBy Agricultural Adjustment Administration self-linksurface differs
surface form: Agricultural Adjustment Agency

Production and Marketing Administration
sector agriculture
subsidyType payments for leaving land fallow
payments for reducing livestock herds
usedPolicyInstrument acreage reduction contracts
price supports
production quotas

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New Deal hasPart Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Administration replacedBy Agricultural Adjustment Administration self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 administeredBy Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 createdAgency Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Public Law 73-10 relatedTo Agricultural Adjustment Administration
New Deal Democrat supportsProgram Agricultural Adjustment Administration