Agricultural Adjustment Act

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era. it was designed to raise agricultural prices by having fewer surpluses. The Government bought livestock to kill, and they paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. The money for these subsidies was generated through a tax on companies which processed farm products. The Act created a new agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to oversee the distribution of the subsidies.Agricultural Adjustment Act, , , enacted May 12, 1933.Hurt, R. Douglas, Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century, (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), 69.

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Other websites

 Bill in its entirety
 http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1639.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080409194401/http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/browse.cfm?MainCatID=34
 Public Law 73-10, 73d Congress, H.R. 3835, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
 A Message from FDR to Congress on the AAA


Category:New Deal
Category:United States federal legislation