 Wallace proposed various remedies to combat the farm crisis, which he believed stemmed primarily from overproduction by farmers.Among his proposed policies was the "ever-normal granary", a policy under which the government buys and stores agricultural surpluses during periods of low agricultural prices and sells those surpluses during periods of high agricultural prices.Both Wallaces backed the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill, which would have required the federal government to market and export agricultural surpluses in foreign markets.