AAA

=**Agricultural Adjustment Act**= = ﻿ =


 * ===The impact of this amendment was to reduce the amount of silver that was being held by private citizens.===
 * ===The Agricultural Adjustment Act enacted May 12, 1933.===
 * ===It restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. The purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby a portion of their fields are empty.[[image:agricultural-trade-Mexico.jpg width="673" height="385"]]media type="youtube" key="e09Hry-fbtQ" height="349" width="425"===


 * ===**Goal was to restore the purchasing power of American farmers to pre World War I levels** ===
 * ===**AAA also evened out the balance of supply and demand for farm commodities so that prices support a decent purchasing power for farmers** ===
 * ===**Farmers even got help during the Dust Bowl** ===
 * ===**In 1934, these storms destroyed farms in Oklahoma and Arkansas and throughout the 1930's farmers started heading for the west especially California due to the more friendly weather for farming** ===
 * ===**During WWI AAA turned its attention to increasing food production to meet war needs.** ===
 * ===**In 1942 it was renamed the Agricultural Adjustement Agency and in 1945 its function was taken over by the Production and Markerting Administration** ===
 * ===**Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of the time and the AAA was a part of his new deal program** ===



>>>>>> **﻿** >>>>>> **Agricultural Adjustment Act** >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> o Purpose of the AAA- Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby a portion of their fields lie fallow. >>>>>> o The AAA did not help the sharecroppers though. >>>>>> o These people, and there were three million sharecroppers, did not own their land. >>>>>> o Many sharecroppers were African American and they lived lives of poverty. In the immediate aftermath of the AAA, they got employment from farmers to destroy the farmers' crops. >>>>>> o Once this had been done, they had nothing to do and many left the land and moved to the ghettos in the cities where they faced similar poverty. >>>>>> o In 1934, the farmers who had benefited from the AAA, hit another major problem – dust storms. >>>>>> o AAA was to raise prices for commodities through artificial scarcity. >>>>>> o The AAA used a system of "domestic allotments", setting total output of corn, cotton, dairy products, hogs, rice, tobacco, and wheat. >>>>>> o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The farmers themselves had a voice in the process of using government to benefit their incomes. The AAA paid land owners subsidies for leaving some of their land idle with funds provided by a new tax on food processing. >>>>>> o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The AAA established an important and long-lasting federal role in the planning on the entire agricultural sector of the economy and was the first program on such a scale on behalf of the troubled agricultural economy. >>>>>> o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The AAA was replaced by a similar program that did win Court approval. Instead of paying farmers for letting fields lie barren, this program instead subsidized them for planting soil enriching crops such as alfalfathat would not be sold on the market. >>>>>> o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Federal regulation of agricultural production has been modified many times since then, but together with large subsidies it is still in effect in 2010. >>>>>> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> >>>>>> · <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] >>>>>> · <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] >>>>>> · <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] >>>>>> >>>>>> · [] >>>>>> · []
 * ===<span style="background-color: #c63ad4; color: #0a0b0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Controlled 7 main and "basic crops": corn, wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco and milk** ===
 * ===<span style="background-color: #c63ad4; color: #0a0b0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Even though the governement gave farmers money for growing crops some farmers still didnt take the money** ===
 * <span style="background-color: #c63ad4; color: #0a0b0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**In 1937 the Supreme Court said that the AAA was unconstitutional, but it was rewritten and again passed into law (source:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_11.html)]
 * ===**<span style="background-color: #c63ad4; color: #0a0b0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Impact it had on the American people: **===
 * ===**<span style="background-color: #c63ad4; color: #0a0b0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">$100 million was paid to the cotten farmers to plough their crop back into the ground **===
 * ===**<span style="background-color: #c63ad4; color: #0a0b0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This Act had made a big improvement for the farmers lives since the prises rose which made the farmers' income increase alot (source: [])[[image:http://www.money-top10.com/Data/Sites/1/Money/Make_Money_Online.jpg width="300" height="375" align="right"]] **===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The "AAA" is the estricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock.