Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was established in 1933 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of his New Deal program. It was suppose to help U.S. farmers reduce the growing of crops, and raising the prices of farms and trying to get expand farming techniques. The government gave the farmers payments if they reduced the amount of acres they gave to stable crops, farmers also had to reduce the amount of cotton and tobacco the put on market due to the Coercive Tax.The Supreme Court rendersed some sections of the act invalid in 1936. The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act was adopted in 1936, this act encouraged conservation by paying the farmers if the planted soil-building crops instead of planting staple crops. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration of 1938 gave power to the AAA to give farmers loans in years where the yields of staple crops were high, and they could drop the loan in the years were the yields were low.Farmers were able to, with a two-thirds vote, to make compulsory marketing quotas, because the conservation of soil had continued. During WWII the AAA changed its attention to increase the production of food to meet the needs of the war. The AAA was renamed in 1942 and the Production and Marketing Administration took over the functions of the AAA in 1945.
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