Farm Bill Timeline

  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

    It was a part of the new deal area. The idea was to increase agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
  • Food. Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990

    To extend and revise agricultural price support and related programs, to provide for agricultural export, resource conservation, farm credit, and Agricultural research and related programs, to ensure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and for other purposes.
  • the Agriculture Improvement Act

    The most recent Farm bill to date. It helps modify the structure of farm commodity support, expanded crop insurance coverage, amended conservation programs, reauthorized and revised nutrition assistance, and extended authority to appropriate funds for many U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) discretionary programs through 2023.