HIST-UA 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Samuel Insull, National Recovery Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act
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The agricultural adjustment act made it so that growers of crops such as wheat, corn, hogs, tobacco, and dairy products have to decide on a limit to how much to grow their crops. This act would try to fix the agricultural surpluses and lowering of farm prices. Adjustment association (aaa) would help out the farmers by telling them how much the farmers should produce and then the leftover crops should be just left for personal use or for idle use. The aaa helped make sure that the farm prices rose over the next few years, and eventually the supreme court had to take action because they felt that the government wasn"t allowed to limit the production of crops. However, the government passed the soil conservation and domestic allotment act which allowed the government to pay the farmers to conserve the use of the soil.
