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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nihil who wrote (24394)	7/13/2000 12:17:48 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

usda.gov I may have been mistaken, but here are the things that I was thinking of: 1889 Department of Agriculture raised to Cabinet status 1889 Farmers' Alliance evolved subtreasury plan 1890, 1891 Meat Inspection Acts 1897 Greater emphasis given to plant exploration and to the increase of agricultural production 1900-17 Federal Government's role in agriculture grows with passage of farm legislation 1906 Food and Drug Act 1906 Meat Inspection Act 1914 Cotton Futures Act 1916 Federal Farm Loan Act 1917 Food Control and Production Acts 1921 Packers and Stockyards Acts 1922 Grain Futures Act 1922 National Agricultural Conference 1923 Agricultural Credits Act 1926 Export Debenture Plan proposed 1927, 1928 McNary-Haugen bills vetoed 1929 Federal Farm Board established Some were prior to the War, some after, and I cannot verify the relative extent of subsidy before and after the New Deal, so I will merely say that there was already a lot of Federal intervention into the farm economy.......