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The [[United States]] Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) (P.L. 73-10 of May 12,  1933) restricted production during the [[New Deal]] by paying farmers to reduce crop area. It established acreage and production controls, paying farmers not to grow or raise wheat, corn, cotton, hogs, etc., and to plow under crops and destroy livestock. The aim was explicitly to raise the prices of all farm commodities by inducing shortages. The economic “theory” behind this was that if prices and wages were jacked up, that would increase “purchasing power.” The farmers were paid subsidies by the federal government for leaving some of their land idle.  The Act created a new agency, the '''Agricultural Adjustment Administration''', to oversee the distribution of the subsidies.

The '''Agricultural Adjustment Administration''' (AAA) was the largest of many farm programs under the [[New Deal]]. The goal was to increase the flow of income to farmers.

 

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) (P.L. 73-10 of May 12,  1933) restricted production by reducing crop acreage and animal production. It allowed farmers to vote on establishing acreage and production controls; the controls once approved by majorities of farmers were mandatory for alll of them.  The technique was reducing production; iin the startup phase in 1933, with crops already in the ground and pigs already born, they had to be plowed up or killed.  

The AAA was designed primarily to solve the economic crisis in rural America--farmers had too little money because they produced too much and the prices they received were very low.  

The AAA was designed primarily to solve the economic crisis in rural America--farmers had too little money because they produced too much and the prices they received were very low.