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1936 › Alf Landon (Republican) › Conservation of natural resources

Real soil conservation and a national land-use and flood-prevention program run with the States and 'out of politics'

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Solution

Cash payments for actual conservation performance where farmers cannot afford it, State participation with local administration by farmers, linked to water conservation and flood control, without penalizing dairy and livestock producers.

Rationale

'The wealth of our soil must be preserved'; Kansas had already linked soil and water conservation into one program.

Statements (2)

1936-07-23 · Acceptance address, Topeka · conventioncandidate_direct ✓ verified

We shall establish effective soil conservation and erosion control policies in connection with a national land use and flood prevention program--and keep it all out of politics.

Source: Address Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination in Topeka, Kansas (1936-07-23)

1936-09-22 · Des Moines, Iowa (Evening Star text) · generalcandidate_direct ✓ verified

Where the farmer is unable to afford proper conservation prac tices cash payments should be made for actual performance. There should be State participa tion in the program, with the local administration In the hands of farmers themselves.

Source: Text of Gov. Landon's Des Moines Speech (Evening Star, Sept. 23, 1936, p. 9) (1936-09-23)

Follow-through

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Conservation payments continued under the 1936 and 1938 acts with county committees of farmers, close to Landon's local-administration formula.

Enacted by others

1938-02-16

Franklin D. Roosevelt

statute Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (conservation payments)

Farmer committees administered allotments and conservation payments. source

Other positions on this issue

Conserve natural resources, including antitrust revision to end waste in oil, coal and timber — Herbert Hoover, 1932 directional_stance

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