The Agricultural Adjustment Act is a stopgap measure which designates the government as the buyer of last resorts when price are low. Farmers are also required to plow under crops and slaughter livestock to reduce the surplus, an action that is criticized with so many people hungry. Efforts to boost the income of farmers who own land results in increased food prices for consumers. The politics of creating an intrusive arm of government to tell farmers what they can grow and cannot grow is such political dynamite that the Roosevelt administration decides they must empower local farmers to make these decisions. In the South this means that white sharecroppers who do not need income from crops make the decision for black sharecroppers who do.

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