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  Agency History
  
  The Farm Service Agency traces its starts to 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression. A wave of discontent brought on by mounting unemployment and farm failures had actually helped choose President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who promised Americans a "New Deal."
  
  One outcome was the facility in 1935 of a Department of Agriculture firm with familiar initials: FSA, which meant Farm Security Administration. Originally called the Resettlement Administration, and renamed in 1937, its initial mission was to move whole farm neighborhoods to locations in which it was hoped farming could be brought out more successfully. But resettlement was questionable and pricey, and its results uncertain. Other functions soon ended up being more crucial, including the Standard Rural Rehabilitation Loan Program, which offered credit, farm and home management preparation and technical supervision. This was the forerunner of the farm loan programs of the Farmers Home Administration.
  
  Another related program was Debt Adjustment and Tenure Improvement. FSA county supervisors, in some cases with the assistance of volunteer committees of local farmers, would work with farmers and their debtors to try to arbitrate contracts and avoid foreclosure. The idea was to reach an offer by which the bank could recover as much or more than it would through foreclosure by allowing the farmer to remain in organization.
  
  FSA likewise promoted co-ops and even supplied treatment to poor rural households. Although the scope of its programs was limited, bad farm families who participated benefited greatly. One research study approximates that households who participated in FSA programs saw their earnings rise by 69 percent in between 1937 and 1941! Annual per capita meat usage increased from 85 pounds to 447 pounds in the exact same period. Milk consumption increased by over half.
  
  In 1946 the Farmers Home Administration Act consolidated the Farm Security Administration with the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Division of the Farm Credit Administration - a quasi-governmental firm that still exists today. This Act included authorities to the new Farmers Home Administration that included guaranteeing loans made by other lending institutions. Later legislation recognized lending for rural housing, rural service enterprises, and rural water and waste disposal companies.
  
  Meanwhile, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 had actually developed the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, or AAA. The "Triple A's" function was to stabilize farm costs at a level at which farmers could endure. The law established state and county committees of farmers called "Triple A committees." These committees supervise the first federal farm program offering price support loans to farmers to produce crop decrease.
  
  The old Triple A was developed on 2 major program departments: the Division of Production and the Division of Processing and Marketing. These was accountable for the work of commodity areas consisting of dairy, rice, tobacco, sugar, wheat, cotton, corn and hogs.
  
  With the passage of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and a basic reorganization of the Department of Agriculture that October came new, complicated changes in conservation, crop assistance and marketing legislation. Programs such as commodity marketing controls, and the policy of the Congress to assist farmers in acquiring parity rates and parity income, made the federal government the decision-maker for the nation's farmers.
  
  After Pearl Harbor, the War Food Administration (WFA) was arranged to satisfy the increased requirements of a nation at war. This reorganization grouped production, supply and marketing authorities under a main company which coordinated the circulation of basic products.
  
  Following The Second World War, the authority of the WFA was ended. In its location came the Production and Marketing Administration, which, aside from other obligations, kept a field services branch to help in program oversight.
  
  The post-war duration of modification to peace-time production levels was almost as difficult as tailoring up for war. New concerns needed to be established, and at the very same time, over-production of specific commodities threatened drops in farm income levels. The increased needs of war-ravaged countries helped soak up surplus production, but surpluses remained an irritating problem for farmers and policymakers.
  
  In 1953, a reorganization of USDA once again made changes in the powers and tasks of its rate assistance and supply management agency. With the modifications came a brand-new name - Commodity Stabilization Service - and an increased emphasis on the conservation of farm earnings. Conserving programs such as the Soil Bank were presented to bring production in line with need by taking land out of production for periods of time ranging as much as 10 years. Community, county and state committees were officially recognized for the very first time as Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committees.
  
  The Commodity Stabilization Service became the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) in 1961, and the new name reflected the agency's stabilization and resource conservation objectives. Field activities in connection with farm programs continue to be performed through an extensive network of state and county field offices.
  
  In 1994, a reorganization of USDA led to the Consolidated Farm Service Agency, relabelled Farm Service Agency in November 1995. The brand-new FSA encompassed the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) and the farm credit part of the Farmers Home Administration. In May 1996 FCIC ended up being the Risk Management Agency.
  
  Today, FSA's obligations are organized into five areas: Farm Programs, Farm Loans, Commodity Operations, Management and State Operations. The company continues to offer America's farmers with a strong safeguard through the administration of farm product programs. FSA also executes advertisement hoc catastrophe programs. FSA's enduring custom of saving the nation's natural resources continues through the Conservation Reserve Program. The firm supplies credit to agricultural manufacturers who are not able to get private, industrial credit. FSA locations unique emphasis on providing loans to starting, minority and women farmers and ranchers. Its Commodity Operations department purchases and provides products for use in humanitarian programs at home and abroad. FSA programs assist feed America's school children and starving individuals around the globe. Additionally, the firm supports the country's handicapped people by buying items made by these persons.