whether it is a control acreage, whether to put crops in the hands of the ccp. at a time when so many members had farm can stick lynch -- farm constituents. this helps explain why congress assumed control of farm policy. farm policy in other words, had by the end of the 1930s produced a very different politics of agriculture, a politics that we live with today. from 38 to 41, form -- farm policy became centered in congress, even more so in world war ii, when the ad committees had leverage, to exert because of the dynamics of the war, and the demands, they transform commodity policy, from the new deal emphasis on support policies as a shock absorber to support policies aimed at rigid controls from price stabilization to price determination. there is a policy irony to all of this. or there would be. that the policies of regulating, controlling, subsidizing, after world war ii, became combined with the limited restraints on operator decisions. making, giving farmers the leeway to innovate. all of this encouraged a market centered revolution and productivity. the pa