Agriculture Adjustment Act.

Agriculture Adjustment Act.

President Franklin Roosevelt’s government in 1933 formulated the agricultural adjustment act, which was a federal law to minimize overproduction to enhance the increase of crop prices. The government posed taxes on the firms that dealt with farm produce and used this revenue to pay farmers subsidies that would help in reduced production. The reduced production was achieved through controlled acreage by farmers, which upon agreement, the farmers were paid for their participation.

The government asked producers, processors, and other stakeholders to participate in the act to regulate marketing all over the country voluntarily. Another objective of the agriculture adjustment act was to implement measures to ensure all associations, processors, and other relevant bodies are licensed to abolish unfair charges and prices. Additionally, the importance of the rate at which the taxes were processed was another fundamental reason the Franklin government formulated this law. The fees were used to adjust operations, enlarge markets and get rid of agricultural surpluses (John, 1871, p. 505).

Negatives effects

When the adjustment act comes into effect, many farmers took the deal as no one could afford to foregone the government payments. Those who had crops in their farms were forced to destroy them to get into the government list of payment. Cattle, sheep, hogs and livestock were slaughtered. Millions of acres were left uncultivated, and eventually, farmers were forced to leave their lands. This program left so many Americans without jobs. Sharecroppers failed to allocate the benefits to the landlords and kept it all for themselves.

Positive effects

The program was named the most remarkable program in agriculture because in a period of 3 years the price of agricultural products doubled. Most farmers were satisfied with the program as they eventually made more profits from the sale of agricultural products like corn wheat and cotton.

Civilian conservation corps.

The civilian conservation program was a program that operated between the years 1933 and 1942 during the president franklin Roosevelt era. The program primarily composed of young men who were unmarried and unemployed aged between 18 to 25 years but later included men aged between 17 years and 28 years. The new deal program was objectively inclined to offering jobs in natural resource conservation in lands that were owned by the state government. The plan was involved in several activities, among them is construction and maintenance of structures like bridges and service buildings, control of erosion through the creation of check dams, planting cover vegetation, and terracing. Other activities include forest conservation, wildlife, controlling of floods, eradication of destructive animals, and landscaping (Srole, 2012, p.287).

Positive impacts

Although their shortcomings with this program, there still fundamental benefits that benefited the American economy. The forest conservation activities helped in conserving the soils and the forests, which improved the national wealth significantly. Additionally, Corps was recruited young men, most of whom were jobless and gave them something to do and earn a living. The program, through various activities, was partially training the young who would join the armed forces.

Negative effects

The program initially played a vital role and had high performance. Still, Fechner, who was in charge, failed to policies failed to meet the balance between the leading organization and the professional agencies. There was no permanent identity, nor stable society and this lead to a lack of a plan of existence after the core reason of thy the body was formed was no more.

References

http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/impact_factory.htm

Srole, C. (2012). Transcribing class and gender: masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices. University of Michigan Press. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1884hdlloyd.asp