Jesus … so government decided to protect industry instead of individual farmers … because heaven forbid that a company or corporation should ever have to lose money due to individual people trying to do things for themselves.
eksb@programming.dev 8 months ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which industry? At the time of this ruling most farms were individual farmers.
SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
But Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, and other top aides cared more about conciliating the powerful, conservative cohort of southern Democrats they considered vital to New Deal legislative majorities.
Wallace therefore fired Agriculture Department radicals in 1935, making clear that the New Deal would do little to threaten the power of planters and agribusiness interests.
… Meanwhile, the STFU collapsed; its defeat would prove a harbinger of the massive, decades-long transformation in American agriculture, a mid-twentieth-century development that pushed millions of small farmers off the land and into cities.
Well yeah the land did not go away it was all gobbeled up by the big players. One could argue it was an industry, even if it was in it’s infancy 15 years after the dust bowl. By todays standard, where just one man owns 12% of US farmland it may seem like peanuts but these southern plantations were/are impressively huge.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I see, at this point there were already large tenant and share croppers (former slave owning plantations) who did not reap the supposed shared benefits of the AAA.
Pandantic@midwest.social 8 months ago
Wow, this is such bullshit. It’s wild that growing too much wheat is illegal.