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What Happened to the Wheat Market?

The 19 38 agricultural adjustment act got the federal government into the business of regulating wheat. The big fear was that if they grew too much, there would be a flood of supply on the wheat market and prices would crash. Ari savitsky: What happened next would change the country in ways that we are still literally living with.

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