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In May 1933 the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed. This act encouraged those who were still left in farming to grow fewer crops. Therefore, there would be less produce on the market and crop prices would rise thus benefiting the farmers – though not the consumers. The AAA was enacted as an alternative and replacement for the farm subsidy policies, in previous New Deal farm legislation, that had been found unconstitutional. -
Agricultural Act of 1954 was signed into law on August 28, 1954. It established flexible price support for basic commodities (excluding tobac- co) at 82.5-90 percent of parity and authorized a Commodity Credit Corporation reserve for foreign and domestic relief. It Governed the relationship between landowners and tenant farmers by organizing a share-tenancy and leasehold system. The law provided the security of tenure of tenants. It also created the Court of Agrarian Relations. -
The Food and Agriculture Act of 1965, the first multiyear farm legislation, provided for four-year commodity programs for wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton. It was extended for one more year through 1970. This was an Act to maintain farm income, stabilize prices and assure adequate supplies of agricultural commodities, reduce surpluses, lower Government costs and promote foreign trade, afford greater economic opportunity in rural areas, and for other purposes. -
The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 was the 4-year farm bill that adopted target prices and deficiency payments as a tool that would support farm income but reduce forfeitures to the Commodity Credit Corporation of surplus stocks. It reduced payment limitations to $20,000 for all program crops. -
The Food Security Act of 1985, a 5-year omnibus farm bill, allowed lower commodity price and income supports and established a dairy herd buyout program. This 1985 farm bill made changes in a variety of other USDA programs. The potential effectiveness of the 1985 Food Security Act conservation provisions to reduce soil erosion and lower fugitive dust emissions on highly erodible cropland (HEL) was investigated. -
The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, also known as the 2002 Farm Bill, includes ten titles, addressing a great variety of issues related to agriculture, ecology, energy, trade, and nutrition. The 2007 U.S. Farm Bill has superseded this act.
The act directs approximately 16.5 billion dollars of funding toward agricultural subsidies each year. These subsidies have a dramatic effect on the production of grains, oilseeds, and upland cotton. -
The 2018 farm bill or Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 is United States legislation that reauthorized many expenditures in the prior United States farm bill: the Agricultural Act of 2014. The $867 billion reconciled farm bill was passed by the Senate on December 11, 2018, and by the House on December 12.
The 2018 Farm Bill provides support, certainty, and stability to our nation's farmers, ranchers, and forest managers by enhancing farm support programs and improving crop insurance.
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