Farm Bill
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The Farm Bill The Farm Bill was put into effect in the 1930s during the Great Depression as a way of helping the struggling farmers during the horrible agricultural climate of the 1930s. Recently, however, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and the Farm Bill have become some of the most important yet overlooked policies of today’s government. Sadly, with all of the growth in the government the Farm Bill has been perverted from solely helping farmers and the people directly involved with the agriculture business in general to a multi million-dollar business deal. The Farm Bill needs to be changed back into something that has its focus on agricultural needs by removing SNAP () and other non-agricultural previsions. The bill should also remove subsidies for large companies.
SNAP and the Farm Bill
The modern Farm Bill, as we know it was introduced in 1938 under the Roosevelt administration as a way to regulate the agricultural market and the public grain trade. Any such program before President Hoover and President Coolidge shot down this point. The economic struggles of the United States began during the 1930s, and the agricultural communities were hit the hardest. Through this program, the Roosevelt administration started buying surplus crops as a way to regulate the agricultural economy, feed the poor and needy, and stockpile food for feeding the war effort later in the president’s term. In the spring of 1939, the government tried its first version of food stamps using the Farm Bill and used the Department of Agriculture to enforce it. This precursor to food stamps had color-coded stamps that citizens could take to trade for food, which the government had purchased. However, this program did not allow for any food not considered “required.” The food stamp program was then killed during the Second World War and brought back under the Eisenhower administration as the program we know today (Roth, D). The Farm Bill
The Farm Bill The Farm Bill was put into effect in the 1930s during the Great Depression as a way of helping the struggling farmers during the horrible agricultural climate of the 1930s. Recently, however, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and the Farm Bill have become some of the most important yet overlooked policies of today’s government. Sadly, with all of the growth in the government the Farm Bill has been perverted from solely helping farmers and the people directly involved with the agriculture business in general to a multi million-dollar business deal. The Farm Bill needs to be changed back into something that has its focus on agricultural needs by removing SNAP () and other non-agricultural previsions. The bill should also remove subsidies for large companies.
SNAP and the Farm Bill
The modern Farm Bill, as we know it was introduced in 1938 under the Roosevelt administration as a way to regulate the agricultural market and the public grain trade. Any such program before President Hoover and President Coolidge shot down this point. The economic struggles of the United States began during the 1930s, and the agricultural communities were hit the hardest. Through this program, the Roosevelt administration started buying surplus crops as a way to regulate the agricultural economy, feed the poor and needy, and stockpile food for feeding the war effort later in the president’s term. In the spring of 1939, the government tried its first version of food stamps using the Farm Bill and used the Department of Agriculture to enforce it. This precursor to food stamps had color-coded stamps that citizens could take to trade for food, which the government had purchased. However, this program did not allow for any food not considered “required.” The food stamp program was then killed during the Second World War and brought back under the Eisenhower administration as the program we know today (Roth, D). The Farm Bill
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