Civil Rights / Cold War
Dig Deeper: How did paying farmers to plant less crops help the farmer?
Agricultural specialists in the government believed that overproduction kept prices low for farm goods. For example, if farmers harvested a lot of corn, farmers would lower their price in order to sell their corn.
To keep this from happening, farmers needed to produce less crops for sale so that prices would be higher. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration paid farmers to reduce their farmed acreage. This meant that with the federal money and higher prices for their crops, farmers could make more money.
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