https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6 A plan to help farmers during the Great Depression. en-us 2018-02-06 13:20:28 UTC 2023-02-14 22:12:26 UTC hello@padlet.com bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229067361  The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed on May 12. It was passed to help any agricultural problems that farmers faced and the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act did not help with.  ]]> 2018-02-07 12:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229067361 bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229067935 The AAA was meant to help farmers during the Great Depression.
Below: A farmer from Texas receives his paycheck from the AAA in 1939]]> 2018-02-07 13:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229067935 bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229068065  Many people in the community did not approve of the AAA so they decided to attack President Roosevelt. The people could not comprehend why food was being thrown away when people were starving.  ]]> 2018-02-07 13:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229068065 bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229068170 The AAA will get us out of the Depression by farmers getting money from selling crops. Then, they put that money back into the economy by buying other necessities. ]]> 2018-02-07 13:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229068170 bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229068589 The AAA has led to the subsidy program we have today, which is the government giving money to the farmers. This will help keep the prices of planting crops low and still have competition between farmers.]]> 2018-02-07 13:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229068589 bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229072739  The AAA was passed to help any agricultural problems that farmers faced and the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act did not help with.  ]]> 2018-02-07 13:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229072739 mlong221 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229074039  The Agricultural Adjustment Act payed farmers to not sell certain crops]]> 2018-02-07 13:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229074039 mlong221 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229391044 Farmers got paid to dig up crops so they were not over producing agriculture anymore ]]> 2018-02-08 01:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229391044 bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229531682  The AAA was to help farmers get more money for the things they grow and sell. Money came from the companies that processed the farm goods.  The government provided the farmers money so they could continue to grow crops to sell to people. Farmers ended up selling their crops to earn money. ]]> 2018-02-08 12:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229531682 bcoler22 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229534310 Farmers were paid by the government to produce less so that there would be less products to sell raising the price so that they could produce more money.  The government had paid farmers to produce less than 10 million acres of cotton and slaughtered 6 million piglets instead of being sold in the market.  ]]> 2018-02-08 13:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229534310 mlong221 https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229535737 "By experience we have learned what must be done to assure to agriculture a fair share of an increasing national income, to provide consumers with abundant supplies of food and fiber, to stop waste of soil, and to reduce the gap between huge surpluses and disastrous shortages." -Franklin D Roosevelt ]]> 2018-02-08 13:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bcoler22/d0or95c6qub6/wish/229535737