<P> In 1933 , with many farmers losing money because of the Great Depression , President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act , which created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) . The AAA began to regulate agricultural production by destroying crops and artificially reducing supplies . It also offered subsidies to farmers to encourage them to willingly limit their production of crops . The Supreme Court later struck down the AAA as unconstitutional , so in 1938 the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act was passed , which essentially created a similar organization for distributing farmer subsidies . </P>
<P> In 1933 , with many farmers losing money because of the Great Depression , President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act , which created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) . The AAA began to regulate agricultural production by destroying crops and artificially reducing supplies . It also offered subsidies to farmers to encourage them to willingly limit their production of crops . The Supreme Court later struck down the AAA as unconstitutional , so in 1938 the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act was passed , which essentially created a similar organization for distributing farmer subsidies . </P>
when did farm subsidies begin in the u.s
when did farm subsidies begin in the u.s
In 1933
In 1933