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  AllRefer.com - Agricultural Adjustment Administration (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), former U.S. government agency established (1933) in the Dept. of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal program.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 empowered the AAA in years of good crops to make loans to farmers on staple crop yields and to store the surplus produce, which it could then release in years of low yield.
It was renamed (1942) the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, and in 1945 its functions were taken over by the Production and Marketing Administration.
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 United States Department of Agriculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ellsworth's interest in aiding agriculture was evident in his annual reports that called for a public depository to preserve and distribute the various new seeds and plants, a clerk to collect agricultural statistics, the preparation of statewide reports about crops in different regions, and the application of chemistry to agriculture.
In 1887, the House and Senate passed bills creating a Department of Agriculture and Labor, but farm interests objected to the inclusion of labor, and the bill was killed in conference.
The USDA is administered by the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
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 Agricultural Adjustment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Agricultural Adjustment Act The United States Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) (P.L. 73-10 of May 12, 1933) restricted production by paying farmers to reduce crop acreage.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), former U.S. government agency established (1933) in the Dept. of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as part of...
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was an agency set up under the New Deal to raise prices of goods sold by paying farmers not to produce.
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 List of United States federal legislation - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Encyclopedia article on United States Department of Agriculture [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government.
Its purpose is to develop and execute policy on farming, agriculture, and food.
It aims to meet the needs of farmers and rancher, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources, foster rural communities, and end hunger in America and abroad.
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