Older readers have, no doubt, heard first-hand stories about the Great Depression which gripped America in the early 1930s. Families, both rural and urban, struggled during the times of economic ...

The Agricultural Adjustment Act sought to do something that to this day remains controversial: pay farmers not to grow crops in an effort to boost prices.

That original bill, known as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, was passed in 1933 during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era. Its purpose was to establish a baseline of policies to support farm ...

The Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act both included significant tax provisions, but neither changed the basic structure of the federal revenue system.

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This radically changed during the Great Depression after the original Farm Bill – the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 – led to a steady expansion of the USDA's role.

Little more than seven months later, in a 6 to 3 ruling, it annihilated his farm program by determining that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional.

This policy became the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA), and led to depressing scenes as farmers were forced to kill their pigs and burn their corn.

Every five years Congress passes legislation that sets national policy on agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry. The first real farm bill was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, part ...