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Agriculture timeline
Created by
Willa
⟶ Updated 13 Mar 2018 ⟶
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Unclaimed land sold by federal government for $2.50/acre
Homestead Act
Creation of the federal Farm Board-1929
Inauguration of FDR
Food for Peace program
Launching of federal Food Stamp program
Bureau of Agriculture created
Stock Market Crash
Congress passes Pure Food and Drug Act
US farmers start receiving deficiency payments
USDA has 80,000 employees and a budget of $1.3 billion
The Grange is formed
By this date the number of farms declined from 6.8 to 1.9 million
Freedom-to-Farm Act
upreme Court ruled AAA unconstitutional
USDA grown to 136,000 employees and annual budget of $30 billion
Congress passes $22,500 in subsidies
Annual budget of USDA stands at approximately $72 billion
AAA created
Hatch Act created
USDA paid farmers $100 million to destroy crops
Law passed to reduce amount of land that could receive deficiency payments
Between these years farm employment fell from 12.5 million to 1.2 million
25% of US cropland is idle