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“Tired of Being Exploited”: The Grassroots Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 512–540.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Christopher W. Shaw Abstract The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 repudiated the creed of laissez-faire by declaring that government had a responsibility to assist ordinary citizens economically. Farmers had made affordable credit a political issue well before the Panic of 1907 thrust banking reform...
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The Origins of Mexico’s Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, in Thought and Practice
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 288–310.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., the architect of the Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, sought to bureaucratize ejidatarios’ multifaceted and localized financial lives, disciplining them and channeling them away from their local communities toward national production plans set by governing elites, while using loans to uplift and moralize...
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Rural Banks and Czech Nationalism in Bohemia, 1848–1914
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 317–345.
Published: 01 July 2004
... rural credit, primarily in the form of mortgage loans. Such local financial institutions embraced a social mission of aiding the poor and promoting small producers, while seeking to encourage economic modernization and Czech national revival. Strengthening the economic position of small agricultural...
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Fighting for Farmers
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 609–615.
Published: 01 November 2022
... faced losing land or livestock due to hardships compounded by the loan policies of the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA). FmHA's roots lay in the New Deal's Resettlement Administration (soon rebranded the Farm Security Administration). FmHA provided farm and housing loans to low-income farmers...
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Client Failures and Supervised Credit in the Farm Security Administration
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 368–390.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., RG 16, NARA II. 36. Documents in folder “Ball, S. A.,” box 4, Records of Rural Rehabilitation Cases, RG 16, NARA II. 37. W. R. Fuchs to Martin G. White, Sept. 8, 1941, folder “Farm Security Loans or Grants Aug. 1 to Nov. 1,” box 292, General Correspondence, 1906–75, RG 16, NARA II. 38...
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Agricultural Policy in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 136–161.
Published: 01 April 2000
... loan programs with somewhat less distorting cash payments. We end by offering two divergent assessments of the 1996 farm bill and of prospects for further reform as the twenty-first century dawns. The early 1900s were a period of relative prosperity for farm owners in the United States, due to rapid...
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“It was a Long Way from Perfect, but it was Working”: The Canning and Home Production Initiatives in Greene County, Georgia, 1940–1942
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 68–90.
Published: 01 April 2012
... the late rural New Deal. A massive federal bailout, including the acquisition of assets that could only be called toxic? A housing-related loan program to people from often-marginal backgrounds? An ambitious and problematic economic stimulus closely linked to the overhaul of education and health care...
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Neighborhood Exchange and the Economic Culture of Rural California in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 391–415.
Published: 01 July 2013
... lawsuit. Whereas he was interested in a rough balance of informal debts, he probably tracked them more loosely and thus recorded them less frequently. Seven of these substantial loans among farmers can be found in Edwards's records from 1858 to 1860. Five of them consisted of Edwards borrowing from...
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Oxen to Organs: Chattel Credit in Springdale Town, 1849–1900
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 420–452.
Published: 01 July 2003
... that agricultural credit involved both loans on real estate and on chattels. Scholars had limited their investiga? tions to real-estate credit. "The point of confusion between the farmers' claims and the real situation is the chattel mortgage." He concluded "the chattel [mortgage] was a critical factor which...
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Landless and Successful: A Cotton Renter and the USDA
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 39–54.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of his loan receipts . 12. Robinson journal , Mar. 12, Apr. 18, Nov. 26, 1929 ; Mar. 12, 17, Oct. 25, 1930 ; Mar. 21, Apr. 11, 1931 ; May 23, 1932 ; Jan. 12, Mar. 13, Oct. 12, 14, 1933 ; Oct. 25, 1929 . 13. Low interview; Robinson journal , Dec. 14, 1931 ; Mar. 19, Apr. 15, 22, 1933...
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The High Cost of Water: African American Farmers and the Politics of Irrigation in the Rural South, 1980–2000
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 338–353.
Published: 01 April 2002
... in Retrospect, 1971–1977 (Tuskegee, Ala.: Tuskegee Institute, Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, 1977), 75 30 Farm Service Agency, USDA, "Fact Sheet: Loans for Socially Disadvantaged Persons," retrieved 3 March 2002 from fttp://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/pubfacts.htm. The High Cost...
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When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 706–708.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and Loan debacle, and during the much more serious subprime recession of 2008. In each case, borrowers bought land and homes in an inflationary market and were forced to pay off expensive mortgages in a climate of deflation. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg's most striking contribution in When a Dream Dies...
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“Selling” the Farm: New Frontier Conservation and the USDA Farm Recreation Policies of the 1960s
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 January 2012
... Home Administration , Loans to Family Farmers for Recreation Enterprises ( Washington, DC : USDA , 1963 ). 29. USDA , Rural Recreation Enterprises for Profit: An Aid to Rural Areas Development , USDA Information Bulletin No. 277 ( Washington, DC : USDA , 1963 ), 1 ; USDA , Rural...
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Who Should Farm: The Fight to Control Settlement on the Columbia Basin Project
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 448–462.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of the interior to clear, level, and otherwise prepare govemment-owned lands for irrigation water. In addition, on a limited experimental basis it bestowed on the secretary the power to construct farmstead improvements such as buildings, fences, and wells and to loan operating funds to settlers. The Department...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 487–511.
Published: 01 November 2022
...-era Deep South, Lorick could neither read nor write, leaving the fate of his farm in the hands of lenders and bank officials. Worst of all for his odds of keeping his farm, Lorick was a farmer of color. As an African American farmer, he faced a long history of loan discrimination, including...
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Land Reform and Postcolonial Poverty in South Korea, 1950–1970
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 276–310.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ŭmsŏng kŭmyung sinse, Subak kŏt’alkisik Nongŭn chipkye ron 500-ŏk, Kanan halsurok ssaige maryŏn [80 percent of usurious loans in the countryside are illegal; the Agricultural Bank estimates the amount at 50 billion wŏn superficially; The poorer are bound to have more debts],” Chosŏn ilbo , Aug. 15, 1960...
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Chicken Woman: Gender and Labor in the Early Arkansas Poultry Industry
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 133–161.
Published: 01 May 2025
... in the local creamery (canning was another of the industries that had sprung up in the state during wartime). Josephine stayed home on the farm, where her work was typical of an Arkansas farm woman of her generation. “First thing you know . . . somehow I acquired a few hens,” she said. “A fellow loaned us...
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The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 366–380.
Published: 01 April 2000
... at artificially high levels. The potential for relatively high and stable returns attracted investment to agriculture. Also during this time, the federal gov? ernment was making loans to agricultural producers at below-market inter? est rates through what was then the Farmers Home Administration, now the Farm...
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African Americans and Land Loss in Texas: Government Duplicity and Discrimination Based on Race and Class
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (2): 258–292.
Published: 01 April 2003
... just as much as white farmers. Limited collateral made it difficult for poor farmers of either race to secure loans, and inflation made a loan through a lending agency almost as risky as a traditional crop lien. The Farm Credit Act created the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) to reform farm credit. All...
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Japanese Market Development Programs under PL 480 in the late 1950s: Focus on Wheat and Rice
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 245–275.
Published: 01 April 2021
... for other friendly countries, grants for trade and economic development, payment of US obligations, loans for trade and economic development, and international educational exchange. Title II authorized donations of food for famine relief and other assistance. Title III regulated internal and foreign...
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