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Timeline of Agricultural Policy

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Above is a timeline of agricultural policy in the United States. While recording every single piece of legislation or agricultural movement in politics would be a larger project, this timeline exists to show the major trends in agricultural policy and the frequency at which legislation was passed. Beginning in 1785, readers may scroll through the timeline to see agricultural policy up to the current day and readers may click on legislation in the timeline to read about this legislation.

This timeline relies on a body of sources for information regarding agricultural policy over time in the United States:

C. Cumo and R.E. Whitmoyer, Seeds of Change: A History of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (Wooster Book, 2000).

Christina McFadyen Campbell, The Farm Bureau and the New Deal: A Study of the Making of National Farm Policy, 1933-40 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962).

Fred A Shannon, The Farmer’s Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897, vol. 5, The Economic History of the United States (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1945).

“History,” American Farm Bureau Federation, accessed July 5, 2017, http://www.fb.org/about/history.

“History of Agricultural Price-Support and Adjustment Programs, 1933-1984,” Agriculture Information Bulletin, Economic Research Service, USDA, December 1984.
 
“The Homestead Act of 1862,” National Archives, August 15, 2016, https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act.
 
Jasper Womach, “Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition,” CRS Report for Congress (Congressional Research Service, June 16, 2005), Library of Congress.

Sarah T Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Tom Philpott, “A Reflection On the Lasting Legacy of 1970s USDA Secretary Earl Butz.” Grist, February 8, 2008, http://grist.org/article/the-butz-stops-here/.