Agricultural Export Quotes

This was one of the early suggestions for providing jobs for the unemployed to work at developing the national infrastructure. In this case if highways and the river could be improved, transportation would allow goods to be reach more of the country cheaper. The CCC and the Job Corps of America would use a similar reasoning for public employment.

As a result of the Commerce Department efforts, the wheat farmers of America with the help of the Department of Agriculture radically changed wheat farming procedures and techniques and despite the Great Depression by the 1940s American wheat was first class quality and by the 1950s was the best in the world and American wheat farmers were also obtaining more yield per acre than the farmers of anywhere else.

The American colonists were not allowed to sell their tobacco or other products to foreign nations. They could only sell them to English merchants who in turn would sell them to foreign markets. Thus, the large profits on American tobacco were made by English merchants and not by American farmers or merchants.