After the U. Supreme Court struck down the AAA in January , a slightly modified version of the law was passed in The program was largely successful at raising crop prices, though it had the unintended consequence of inordinately favoring large landowners over sharecroppers. During its brief existence, the AAA accomplished its goal: the supply of crops decreased, and prices rose.
It is now widely considered the most successful program of the New Deal. This act encouraged those who were still left in farming to grow fewer crops.
Therefore, there would be less produce on the market and crop prices would rise thus benefiting the farmers — though not the consumers. The AAA paid farmers to destroy some of their crops and farm animals. Six million piglets were slaughtered by the government after it had bought them from the farmers. The meat was canned and given away for free to the unemployed. Though this all made perfect sense in terms of economically stabilising the farming market, many Americans could not accept this policy of destruction.
In , the Supreme Court declared that the AAA was unconstitutional in that it had allowed the federal government to interfere in the running of state issues. This effectively killed off the AAA. One group that did not benefit from the AAA was sharecroppers - farmers who rented land or had mortgages, many of whom were African American. Although the AAA did help turn around the fate of many farmers, another problem raised its head; in , dust storms badly affected many farmers, particularly in areas like Oklahoma and Arkansas, destroying their farms.
It is estimated that throughout the s more than , farmers from the mid-America states headed west, especially California, where the weather created a more friendly farming environment. See also: The New Deal. Dust-storm Texas
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