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How did it do this? It paid farmers to make sure the supply did not exceed demand. The federal government guaranteed farmers a high enough price to remain profitable. This price support system lasted until the 1990s.

1938: The New Agricultural Adjustment Act remedied the 1933 AAA.

The Farm Security Administration replaced the Resettlement Administration to provide loans and training for farmers.

1937: The Farm Tenancy Act created the Farmers’ Home Corporation to provide loans for tenant farmers to buy their farms.

It also resettled farmers onto better land and taught them modern conservation and farming techniques. It bought 10 million acres of submarginal farmland and paid farmers to convert it to pasture, preserves, or parks.

1935: The Resettlement Administration trained farmers and adjusted farm debt payments.

The Rural Electrification Act provided loans to farming cooperatives to generate electricity for their rural areas.

1934: The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act paid farmers to plant soil-building crops, like beans and grasses, to counteract the drought.

The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act provided loans to save farms from foreclosure. It was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1936 because it taxed processors but gave funds to farmers.

1933: Congress signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

They were originally created to help farmers ravaged by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression of 1929. Roosevelt included farm subsidies in the New Deal. It became the Farm Credit Administration in 1933. It bought and stockpiled crops to limit supplies. It asked farmers to limit crops, which didn’t work. It tried to keep crop prices from crashing.

1929: The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 created the Federal Farm Board.

It made sure there was enough food during World War I. The Federal Farm Loan Act made government loans available to farmers. The Morrill Act of 1862 funded colleges of agriculture.

1862: The Homestead Act in 1862 granted land in the west to settlers willing to farm it.