Reinstitute the Land and Soil Laws Going Back to the Charter of the Forest

Editor's note: The Agricultural Adjustment Act that was far more egregious than the Banking Act, the Insurance Act and the Securities Acts of 1933, forced mandatory scarcity by disrupting the natural order and the natural production of agriculture. This egregious act created price fixing as a mandatory policy in the United States. This egregious act flipped the Charter of the Forest, 1225 (foundation of the land and soil laws in the western world) on its head when the Roosevelt administration put in place a policy that imposed scarcity on the earth and on America. This criminal act presented an anti-human lie on its face and it has become overwhelmingly obvious it was designed to cripple America even going as far back as 1933. This act suppressed the livelihood of Americans but worse it suppressed nature. This was an act of war on natural abundance. This was like creating rats in a cage where we now have to push the lever to get our food pellet.  
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Source: New Georgia Encyclopedia

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Entry by Chris Dobbs, New Georgia Encyclopedia, 01/29/2016

Last edited by NGE Staff on 12/14/2020

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president  

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. 
After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the AAA in January 1936, a slightly modified version of the law was passed in 1938. The program was largely successful at raising crop prices, though it had the unintended consequence of inordinately favoring large landowners over sharecroppers.

Declining Crop Prices

Great Depression hit Georgia especially hard, but trouble began for the state's economy even before the stock market crash of 1929. Many states enjoyed a manufacturing and production boom throughout the 1920s, spurred by an increase in consumer goods and new access to credit. But one of Georgia’s major industries, textiles, was hamstrung in at least three ways.

First, the boll weevil, introduced to the state in 1915, greatly reduced state cotton yields. Georgia's cotton acreage declined from 5.2 million acres in 1914 to 2.6 million in 1923. Second, overproduction in other parts of the country and foreign competition increased the supply of cotton and decreased the price. Between 1918 and 1928, the national price of cotton decreased from 28.8 cents/pound to 17.98 cents/pound. The price of cotton bottomed out in 1931, at 5.66 cents/pound. Finally, new fashions, such as the flapper dress, which used less fabric as well as new man-made materials, including rayon, decreased demand for cotton. These factors combined to push many small family farmers off their land. Many either moved into cities or became sharecroppers.

In addition to the state's economic challenges, Georgia's soil was in poor health. The state’s decades-long dependence on cash-crop agriculture encouraged famers to plant every available acre with cotton, which eventually depleted the soil and led to erosion. By the beginning of the Great Depression, Georgia's cotton, farmers, and land were all in a poor state.

Results of the AAA

Roosevelt, familiar with Georgia's economy through his frequent visits to Warm Springs, proposed the AAA within his first 100 days of office. The act passed both houses of Congress in 1933 with the unanimous support of Georgia senators and representatives. In essence, the law asked farmers to plant only a limited number of crops. If the farmers agreed, then they would receive a federal subsidy. The subsidies were paid for by a tax on the companies that processed the crops. By limiting the supply of target crops—specifically, corn, cotton, milk, peanuts, rice, tobacco, and wheat—the government hoped to increase crop prices and keep farmers financially afloat.

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