Franklin D. Roosevelt

Statement on Signing Amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

August 24, 1935

This legislation supplements and strengthens the original Agricultural Adjustment Act, enacted May 12, 1933, which unquestionably has been of great value to American farmers. It carries forward the agricultural program on the broad economic basis of the original Act.

The Act as a whole will enable the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to move forward in its constructive and essential work in behalf of agriculture.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Statement on Signing Amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209044

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