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Passed by President Roosevelt, this bill launched a program that aimed to help farmers with the low price of crops by paying them to limit production. By not over-producing, they could help stabilize the market -
This program was a result of the 1933 Farm Bill. This program paid farmers to replace crops with grass to help with soil conservation. The AAA also included the earliest nutrition assistance.
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After Supreme Court ruled the first Farm Bill unconstitutional in 1936, they passed a second farm bill in 1938. They added the requirement that the bill be updated every 5 years
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Food stamps were first created in 1939, as part of the 1933 Farm Bill, however these ended in 1943. President Kennedy launched another program, The 1964 Food Stamp Act, but it was largely separate from the current farm bill
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This farm bill included food stamps, since then food stamps and farm bills have been discussed together and not kept separate like in the past
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Congress had voted to slowly eliminate farm subsidies, however, in 1997 crop prices dropped. The following year Congress relaunched subsidies, but this time they offered farmers direct payments based off how much land they had, rather than limited crop production. This bill was also referred to as The Freedom to Farm Act and the FAIR Act -
This bill brought major changes such as changes to the farm payment program, and pushed for conservation of land and environmental practices on farms
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This bill greatly increased spending. It was originally vetoed by President Bush, but that was overridden by Congress. Highly controversial due to the uneven distribution of money to farmers
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Originally the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act, the bill written in 2012 was pushed back to 2013, when President Obama signed it into law as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act -
signed by President Trump and is most recent Farm Bill. This bill allows the USDA to continue to carry out mission of assisting rural America