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Benefits Of 1938 Farm Control Bill By Mefferd

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Although the AAA aided many farmers, congress wasn’t completely a supporter of all its components. In 1936, the Supreme Court declared the AAA unconstitutional and slightly altered it while keeping its concept. Roosevelt signed the second upgraded AAA in 1938. The new act was basically the same as the original with some improvements. The newspaper article “Benefits of 1938 Farm Control Bill” by Mefferd discusses how the act retained the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 providing consumers with enough supplies, increase parity payments, reduce the waste of soil and create better farming practices. It was also called the farm control bill of 1938. The field representative for the AAA for Texas and Oklahoma, Rob B. Mefferd said that the farmers were …show more content…

Soil-conserving prevents droughts and floods since soils weren’t supposed to be chemically treated under this act. The farm control of 1980 also protected the US farm investments and encouraged tenant farmers to stay in their farm or own home although it didn’t really benefit them as much as farmers who owned their own farm. However, it helped many of the nation’s farmers by continuing to increase farmers income by rewarding them for practicing soil conserving. To justify his statement about the escalating farm income, Mefferd illustrates with cotton that “ This last crop, estimated at more than 18,700,000 bales brought $844,000,000. Had it sold at parity price, it would’ve brought $1,160,000,000” (Mefferd 12). Mefferd is basically saying that the crops that were cheaper before were more expensive and if it was sold with parity prices it would ten times more expensive than that. Which main means more gain for farmers. Even though the act didn’t benefit all the farmers it did help many farmers who were struggling to raise their income to the level it was during pre-depression and every crisis they

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