SEGMENT: FARM ORGANIZATIONS
Charles Shuman>UIS Collection S>UIS Collection S, Segment 16
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- US Department of Agriculture (USDA); Farm Bureau; McNary-Haugen bill; Farm Block; New Deal; Great Depression; WWII; Dr. Charles L. Stewart; President F. D. Roosevelt; Triple A legislation (Agricultural Adjustment Act); Sam Thompson; Ed O'Neal
- FARM ORGANIZATIONS
- Shuman gives an overview of Farm Bureau and legislation from the 1920s-1940s. McNary-Haugen bill explained as lobbied by Farm Bureau but vetoed by the president. Use of the term "Farm Block" by press referred to as any nonpartisan group working on farm legislation. Federal Farm Board was an alternative that also failed to raise prices through an export dumping operation. Triple A legislation of New Deal originally financed by farmers through a processing fee on wheat and hogs and other commodities. Sam Thompson and Ed O'Neal leaders during this time. Legislation was based on the assumption that problems in prices was a temporary problem, which it was not. Farm Bureau never intended to have long term farm programs. Roosevelt made farm speech in Chicago about making the market system work. Triple A was to be voluntary, self-financed by farmers, and carried out by extension serve. Price supports were set at 50-60%. Program was too big for extension to handle it. It needed a bureaucracy;
