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1936 › Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) › Crop insurance and storage reserves
Crop insurance and a stable food supply
pledge_forwardspecific_pledgecandidate_directevidence A Agriculture⚡ Drought of 1936 similar solutions · similar reasoning
Solution
Enact crop insurance so surpluses of good years carry farmers and consumers through drought years.
Rationale
Two emergencies in four years -- price collapse from surpluses and crop failure from drought -- showed that neither producers nor consumers benefit from wide fluctuations.
Statements (1)
for a definite reduction of farm tenancy, for encouragement of farmer cooperatives, for crop insurance and a stable food supply. For all these we have only just begun to fight.
Follow-through
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The President's crop-insurance committee reported in February 1937; Title V of the AAA of 1938 created the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, writing all-risk wheat insurance from the 1939 crop.
Mechanisms
| Date | Type | Name | Effect | Consistent? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-02-18 | message | Message on crop insurance | Recommended all-risk wheat insurance for 1938.I believe that it provides an adequate basis for legislation which will make possible a program of crop insurance applying to wheat for the crop year 1938. | yes | Message to Congress on Crop Insurance. |
| 1938-02-16 | statute | Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (AAA 1938, Title V) | Crop insurance begun.title V of the Act established the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation . | yes | Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 - Wikipedia |
Assessments
Other positions on this issue
- Give crop insurance 'the fullest attention' — Alf Landon, 1936 vague_gesture
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