Older readers have, no doubt, heard first-hand stories about the Great Depression which gripped America in the early 1930s. Families, both rural and urban, struggled during the times of economic ...

Every five years Congress passes legislation that sets national policy on agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry. The first real farm bill was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, part ...

The next farm bill, the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965, also gave the Secretary the authority to establish a cropland adjustment program, with payments to farmers who diverted cropland to ...

The farm bill has been the primary vehicle for establishing U.S. farm policy for nearly 90 years, starting with the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, part of the legislative New Deal package ...