Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929

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Agricultural Marketing Act

Other short titles	Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
Long title	An Act to establish a federal farm board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries.
Acronyms (colloquial)	AMA
Nicknames	Farm Relief Bill
Enacted by	the 71st United States Congress
Effective	June 15, 1929
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 71–10
Statutes at Large	46 Stat. 11
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 1 by Gilbert N. Haugen (R–IA) on April 17, 1929 Passed the House on April 25, 1929 (365-35) Passed the Senate on May 14, 1929 (54-33) Reported by the joint conference committee on June 13, 1929; agreed to by the House on June 13, 1929 (250-113) and by the Senate on June 14, 1929 (74-8) Signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on June 15, 1929

The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, under the administration of Herbert Hoover, established the Federal Farm Board from the Federal Farm Loan Board established by the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars.^[1] The original act was sponsored by Hoover in an attempt to stop the downward spiral of crop prices by seeking to buy, sell and store agricultural surpluses or by generously lending money to farm organizations. Money was lent out to the farmers in order to buy seed and food for the livestock, which was especially important since there had previously been a drought in the Democratic South. However, Hoover refused to lend to the farmers themselves, as he thought that it would be unconstitutional to do so and if they were lent money, they would become dependent on government money.