AAA

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AAA was a New Deal-era U.S. government agency created to regulate agricultural production and stabilize farm prices during the Great Depression.

Aliases (1)
  • AAA of 1933 ×1

Statements (33)
Predicate Object
instanceOf New Deal agency
United States federal agency
aimedToSolve falling agricultural prices
farm overproduction
rural economic distress
appliesTo agricultural producers
farmers
appliesToJurisdiction United States
country United States
declaredUnconstitutionalInCase United States v. Butler
dissolved 1936
fieldOfWork agricultural policy
farm relief
price stabilization
hasAbbreviation AAA
hasPurpose regulation of agricultural production
stabilization of farm prices
support of farm incomes
historicalPeriod New Deal era
inception 1933
isPartOf U.S. agricultural policy history
legalForm federal statute-based agency
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Washington, D.C.
namedAfter Agricultural Adjustment Act
operatedDuring Great Depression
partOf New Deal
regulates agricultural production in the United States
replacedBy Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
significantEvent declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1936
usedMethod crop acreage reduction
processing taxes
production controls
subsidy payments to farmers


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