Agricultural Adjustment Act

**Agricultural Adjustment Act**
Enacted by the	73rd United States Congress
Effective	May 12, 1933
Citations
Public Law	73-10
Stat.	48 Stat. 31
Codification
Title(s) amended	7 U.S.C.: Agriculture
U.S.C. sections created	Template:Usc-title-chap § 601 et seq.
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as Template:USbill by on; Passed the House on March 22, 1933 (315-98); Passed the Senate on April 28, 1933 (64-20); Reported by the joint conference committee on May 10, 1933; agreed to by the House on May 10, 1933 (passed) and by the Senate on May 10, 1933 (53-28); Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 12, 1933;
Major amendments
Relevant Supreme Court cases
	United States v. Butler

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.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Agricultural Adjustment Act Media

A Roosevelt County, New Mexico, farmer and a County Agricultural Conservation Committee representative review the provisions of the AAA farm program to determine how it can best be applied on that particular acreage in 1934.
Barn on tenant's farm in Walker County, Alabama, 1937
Senator Elmer Thomas (left) with Claude M. Hurst and John Collier, members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and unassociated (directly) with the Thomas Amendment.

References

↑ Rasmussen, Wayne D., Gladys L. Baker, and James S. Ward, "A Short History of Agricultural Adjustment, 1933-75." Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 391 (March 1976), pg. 2.
↑ Agricultural Adjustment Act, Pub.L. 73-10, 48 Stat. 31, enacted May 12, 1933.
↑ Peters, Gerhard. Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Statement on Signing the Farm Relief Bill" May 12, 1933. The American Presidency ProjectUniversity of California – Santa Barbara. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
↑ Hurt, R. Douglas, Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century, (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), 69.

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
Roosevelt, Franklin D.. "New Means to Rescue Agriculture" — The Agricultural Adjustment Act - March 16, 1933. Internet Archive (March 16, 1933)National Archives and Records Administration. p. 74-79.

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[1] Rasmussen, Wayne D., Gladys L. Baker, and James S. Ward, "A Short History of Agricultural Adjustment, 1933-75." Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 391 (March 1976), pg. 2.

[2] Agricultural Adjustment Act, Pub.L. 73-10, 48 Stat. 31, enacted May 12, 1933.

[3] Peters, Gerhard. Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Statement on Signing the Farm Relief Bill" May 12, 1933. The American Presidency ProjectUniversity of California – Santa Barbara. Retrieved July 4, 2013.

[Hurt2002.2C_p69-4] Hurt, R. Douglas, Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century, (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), 69.

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