[Land Utilization Program]

Excerpt: The Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, is carrying out its land utilization program to help communities and individuals throughout depressed rural areas put their land to its most constructive use, and thereby stabilize their agricultural industry. Congress provided for this program in Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937, which authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with State and local agencies in planning needed improvements in land utilization, and to help effect these adjustments by purchasing submarginal farm land and developing it for grazing, forestry, recreation, wildlife conservation, and other uses to which it is primarily suited.