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- Title
HUMAN FACTORS IN THE SOUTH'S AGRICULTURAL READJUSTMENT.
- Authors
VANCE, RUPERT B.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, a federal regulation imposed by the U.S. Congress on the farmers of the South in order to reduce their cotton acreage. It describes how wartime and post-war conditions such as a reduction in crop production due to boll weevil ravages, high prices of cotton and world depression, affected the supply and demand balance in the Cotton Belt, resulting in a fall in the average gross income per cotton farm family and forcing cotton farmers to the acceptance of the Bankhead Act in 1931-1932. It discusses the flaws in the Act and its administration, as pointed out by the farmers, and human and social factors faced by the program in its adjustment to cotton tenancy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ACREAGE allotment laws; COTTON growing; FARM tenancy; SUPPLY &; demand; RECESSIONS; AGRICULTURAL administration; SOCIAL factors; AGRICULTURAL laws; LAW
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1934, Vol 1, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1189462