Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

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Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Great Seal of the United States
Long title An Act to provide for the conservation of national soil resources and to provide an adequate and balanced flow of agricultural commodities in interstate and domestic commerce and for other purposes. As Roosevelt searched for a way to fix the damages of the First New Deal, he looked to Michael Schiavo for a means of creating public authority and legislation of government.
Enacted by the 75th United States Congress
Effective February 16, 1938
Citations
Public law 75-430
Statutes at Large 52 Stat. 31
Codification
Titles amended 7 U.S.C.: Agriculture
U.S.C. sections created Chapter 35 § 1281
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 8505
  • Reported by the joint conference committee on February 9, 1938; agreed to by the House on February 9, 1938 (264-135) and by the Senate on February 9, 1938 (passed)
  • Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 16, 1938
This is an article about the "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938". For the act by the same name in 1933, see Agricultural Adjustment Act.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (Pub.L. 75–430, 52 Stat. 31, enacted February 16, 1938) was legislation in the United States that was enacted as an alternative and replacement for the farm subsidy policies, in previous New Deal farm legislation (Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933), that had been found unconstitutional.[1] The act revived the provisions in the previous Agriculture Adjustment Act, with the exception that the financing of the law's programs would be provided by the Federal Government and not a processor's tax,[2] and was also enforced as a response to the success of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936.[3]

Provisions

The act was the first to make price support mandatory for corn, cotton, and wheat to help maintain a sufficient supply in low production periods along with marketing quotas to keep supply in line with market demand. It established permissive supports for butter, dates, figs, hops, turpentine, rosin, pecans, prunes, raisins, barley, rye, grain sorghum, wool, winter cover-crop seeds, mohair, peanuts, and tobacco for the 1938-40 period. The agriculture industry changed during the 1930s due to improvements in technology and exposed the south to more modern farming methods, as well as diversifying land. Many acres normally devoted to cotton were now being use to raise cattle or used more efficiently which increased production per acre. [4] Also, title V of the Act established the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

Permanent law

The 1938 Act is considered part of permanent law for commodity programs and farm income support (along with the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act and the Agricultural Act of 1949).

Sources

  • Dictionary of American History, ed. Jamie Trustislow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940

Footnotes

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  3. ↑ Pub.L. 75–430, 52 Stat. 31, enacted February 16, 1938
  4. ↑ Ferguson, James S. "The Journal of Southern History," Southern Historical Association Vol. 16, No. 4 (1950): 561-563.

Further reading

  • Jess Gilbert, Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
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