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Federal Aid for Troubled Farmers. Many New Deal laws were passed in the effort to address the needs of the American farmer. In the early days of Roosevelt's first administration, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace worked with presidential adviser Rexford G. Tugwell and M. L. Wilson of Montana State College to develop and promote the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Signed into law in early May 1933, the act created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), whose major task was to coordinate an acreagereduction plan. By reducing the amount of food going to market, the federal government hoped to drive farmcommodity prices upward. Farmers who complied were paid by the federal government for leaving a portion of their farmland idle. By the time the AAA was established, farmers had already begun their growing season. If price controls were to be effective in 1932, some crops would have to...
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