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On May 12th, 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act into law. It provided a primary federal role in limiting production to control supplies in exchange for higher prices. This was an extremely abrupt change in policy, and ultimately an emergency response to the Great Depression and Dust Bowl not necessarily meant to be longterm policy. The AAA had two main objectives:

1) To help farmers who were highly leveraged

2) To raise the prices of farm goods