New Deal agricultural programs

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New Deal agricultural programs were a series of U.S. federal initiatives in the 1930s that sought to stabilize farm prices, reduce surpluses, and support farmers through subsidies and production controls during the Great Depression.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal government program
agricultural policy initiative
appliesToJurisdiction United States of America
surface form: United States
basedOn parity price concept
country United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizedFor destruction of crops and livestock to raise prices
unequal benefits for large landowners over tenants and sharecroppers
endTime late 1930s (as original New Deal phase)
focusesOn corn production
cotton production
dairy production
hog production
rice production
rural credit
rural electrification
soil conservation
sugar production
tobacco production
wheat production
hasEffect expansion of federal role in agriculture
increase in farm income
reduction in agricultural overproduction
hasPart Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 NERFINISHED
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 NERFINISHED
Agricultural Adjustment Administration NERFINISHED
Bankhead Cotton Control Act NERFINISHED
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act NERFINISHED
Commodity Credit Corporation NERFINISHED
Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933 NERFINISHED
Farm Credit Act of 1933 NERFINISHED
Farm Credit Administration NERFINISHED
Farm Security Administration NERFINISHED
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation NERFINISHED
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation NERFINISHED
Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act NERFINISHED
Jones-Costigan Act NERFINISHED
Resettlement Administration NERFINISHED
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 NERFINISHED
Rural Electrification Administration NERFINISHED
Soil Conservation Service NERFINISHED
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 NERFINISHED
Sugar Act of 1937 NERFINISHED
Tennessee Valley Authority agricultural initiatives
extension and education programs for farmers
implementedBy Franklin D. Roosevelt administration NERFINISHED
United States Department of Agriculture NERFINISHED
inception Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 NERFINISHED
influenced long-term U.S. agricultural policy
postwar U.S. farm subsidy system
legislatedBy United States Congress NERFINISHED
mainGoal reduction of agricultural surpluses
stabilization of farm prices
support for farmers
opposedBy some business interests
some conservative politicians
partOf New Deal NERFINISHED
significantEvent Supreme Court invalidation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
enactment of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
passage of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
startTime 1933
targetPopulation American farmers
sharecroppers
tenant farmers
temporalLocation Great Depression NERFINISHED
uses acreage reduction contracts
farm subsidies
marketing quotas
parity pricing
price supports
production controls

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Charles F. Brannan influencedBy New Deal agricultural programs