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focused on soil and water conservation as a national responsibility. The Agricultural Conservation Program was established by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act in early 1936. Its purpose then, as today, was to assist farmers in making land use adjustments and in carrying out soil and water conserving practices. Designed to meet both current and long-range production needs, during World War II it provided a fertility reserve which was drawn upon to increase production and meet defense needs.
Today it stresses the twofold value of conservation and production adjustment by encouraging sound land use adjustments away from intensive crop production. The feed grain, wheat, and cotton programs of recent years are examples of how millions of acres have been diverted from cropping and put into conservation use with assistance under ACP.
Through cost-sharing, farmers invest their own time, money, machinery, and labor, amounting nationally to half or more of the cost of installing conservation measures. ACP assistance in the form of conservation materials, services and financial aid accounts for the other half.
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