Debate on farm bill still rages in different era

When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the first farm policy into law in 1933, he promised it would be a temporary measure.

Cotton prices plummeted after the stock market crash. Foreclosures took hundreds of thousands of farms. Droughts and dust storms hurt income and caused an exodus from rural America.


However, more than 70 years later, Roosevelt’s plan still spirals – some farmers are dependant on payments to aid their farm income amid a tough farm economy that includes high fertilizer and fuel costs.

This summer, the farm bill debate continues, with Congress expected to pass legislation by the end of September.

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