Focusing on the History of Agricultural Education and Rural America
In the previous Friday Footnote, we learned about the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933. We ended the Footnote with a Supreme Court ruling in 1936 that invalidated the Act. The Court ruled that a special tax paid by food processors Continue reading Its Alive? The Agricultural Adjustment Act Rises from the Grave! (8/21/2020)
During the Great Depression/Dust Bowl era the creation of the Soil Conservation Service, running electricity and building sanitary privies in rural America, and establishing a system of farm credit all made sense. However, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933 Continue reading Plowing Under Cotton and Killing Pigs (8/14/2020)
When I was 16 years old, I visited the Production Credit Association (PCA) office in Lampasas, Texas to ask for a loan to buy 5 cows. This was to expand my SAE program. As a freshman, I had two Angora Continue reading Show Me the Money (8/7/2020)
Historians often celebrate milestone events such as the 50th or 100th anniversary of an important happening. In 2014 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act that provided for a national system of Extension. In 2017 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Continue reading One Hundred and Counting (7/31/2020)
What is a Black Blizzard? Is it: A snowfall that is black because of air pollution (primarily coal dust). A snowfall so massive the sun is blacked out. A swarm of locust or grasshoppers so thick they block out the sun. Continue reading Black Blizzards (7/24/2020)