Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
April 27, 2024
The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment ActPub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–461, enacted February 29, 1936) is a United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion.
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
Other short titles
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act act
Long title
An Act to promote the conservation and profitable use of agricultural land resources by temporary Federal aid to farmers and by providing for a permanent policy of Federal aid to States for such purposes.
Reported by the joint conference committee on February 24, 1936; agreed to by the House on February 27, 1936 (Agreed) and by the Senate on February 27, 1936 (Agreed)
The Act was passed in response to the Supreme Court's declaration that the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was unconstitutional.[1] These two acts were passed as legislation in an attempt to cut crop and livestock surplus.[1] Originally, Congress enacted the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–46, 49 Stat. 163 on April 27, 1935 in an attempt to address farm erosion problems by bringing within its policy and purposes, the improvements and preservation of national soil resources.[2] During the second session of the 74th Congress, the U.S. Congressional session amended the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 by passing Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–461 and renaming the legislation the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act with the express purpose of encouraging the use of soil resources in such a manner as to preserve and improve fertility, promote economic use, and diminish the exploitation and unprofitable use of the national soil resources.[3] Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Act into law on February 29, 1936.[4]
Provisionsedit
It meant to help with some of the problems with the previous Act, most notably its failure to protect sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Landlords were now required to share the payments they received from the government for cutting back production with those who worked on their land.
The Act also gave directives to conserve the soil in the "high plains" - soil that was being raised into huge dust bowls during the 1930s. This period, known as the Dust Bowl, coupled with the economic hardships of the Great Depression, hit farmers particularly hard. The act attempted to correct earlier government policy that encouraged farmers to use their land without concern to the repercussions. The result of these agricultural methods (mostly the way farmers plowed their land) made it vulnerable to the winds. The dry ground, now exposed, rose up to create the "black storms".
The Act both educated farmers on how to use their lands without damaging them, and took immediate action to contain the dust bowl's effects - notably by planting trees and native grass.
^ ab"Agricultural Adjustment Administration". Handbook of Texas Online - Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
^Roosevelt, Franklin D. (February 26, 1937). "The President Urges the Adoption by All the States of a Uniform Soil Conservation Law - February 26, 1937". University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 102–104.
^S.rp.1481, 'Conservation and Utilization of the Soil Resources' Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Senate, January 16, 1936.
^Roosevelt, Franklin D. (March 1, 1936). "A Presidential Statement on Signing the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act - March 1, 1936". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 95–102.
Further readingedit
Brinkley, Alan (1999). American History: A Survey, Tenth Edition. McGraw-Hill College. ISBN0-07-303390-1.
April 27, 2024
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