<P> For most tenants and sharecroppers the AAA was a major help . Frey and Smith concluded, "To the extent that the AAA control - program has been responsible for the increased price (of cotton), we conclude that it has increased the amount of goods and services consumed by the cotton tenants and croppers area ." Furthermore, the landowners typically let the tenants and croppers use the land taken out of cotton production for their own personal use in growing food and feed crops, which further increased their standard of living . Another consequence was that the historic high levels of turnover from year to year declined sharply, as tenants and croppers tend to stay with the same landowner . Researchers concluded, "As a rule, planters seem to prefer Negroes to whites as tenants and croppers ." </P> <P> Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms in Mississippi and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union were organized in the 1930s principally as a response to the hardships imposed on sharecroppers and tenant farmers . </P> <P> Although the Act stimulated American agriculture, it was not without its faults . For example, it disproportionately benefited large farmers and food processors, with lesser benefits to small farmers and sharecroppers . With the spread of cotton - picking machinery after 1945, there was an exodus of small farmers and croppers to the city . </P> <P> Attached as Title III to the Act, the Thomas Amendment became the' third horse' in the New Deal's farm relief bill . Drafted by Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, the amendment blended populist easy - money views with the theories of the New Economics . Thomas wanted a stabilized "honest dollar," one that would be fair to debtor and creditor alike . </P>

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