In 1933 a federal law from the New Deal era was put into place. This was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933. The act reduced production by paying farmers subsidies to not plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. This was to reduce any surplus in crops and to increase the market value of crops.
One of the task that the Roosevelt administration was given was to decrease the surpluses in milk, tobacco, wheat, field corn, rice, cotton, and hogs. This list expanded in the following two years, 1934 & 1935, to include potatoes, sugar cane, peanuts, grain sorghum, flax, sugar beets, barley, rye, and cattle. These products were focused on because: 1) Changes in prices of these commodities played a crucial role in deicind the
One of the task that the Roosevelt administration was given was to decrease the surpluses in milk, tobacco, wheat, field corn, rice, cotton, and hogs. This list expanded in the following two years, 1934 & 1935, to include potatoes, sugar cane, peanuts, grain sorghum, flax, sugar beets, barley, rye, and cattle. These products were focused on because: 1) Changes in prices of these commodities played a crucial role in deicind the