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Aware of the hardships imposed by AAA policies and the drought visited on farm families, in 1935 the government established an agency that would ultimately be called the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The FSA provided poor farmers with financial relief, health advice, and agricultural information. If it discovered farmers were cultivating substandard land, the FSA resettled them to new, more fertile land and taught them how to farm it scientifically. Of particular importance was instruction in contour plowing, which reduced soil erosion. Entire resettled communities, such as Arthurdale, West Virginia, were established to prove that government assistance and community interest could produce energetic, productive agriculture. The program succeeded, but at such a high price that its economic value was questionable. Ultimately Congress balked at financing so expensive a project and ordered a reduction in FSA programs in 1938. Six years later the project was killed...
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