American Agriculture Movement pins from the Smithsonian

I tend to be distrustful of protest movements. They make a lot of noise, but when the dust settles, the results are mainly cathartic, and I have remarkably little interest in other people's catharsis.

American Agriculture Political Pin

MEASUREMENTS:
overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm
OBJECT NAME:
button
SUBJECT:
Agriculture
CREDIT LINE:
Gift of Clifford Hamilton
ID NUMBER:
1993.0188.010
ACCESSION NUMBER:
1993.0188
CATALOG NUMBER:
1993.0188.010
DESCRIPTION:
The American Agriculture Movement was started in the fall of 1977 in response to the 1977 Farm Bill which had the adverse affect of dropping commodity prices to a level lower than the cost of production. President Jimmy Carter’s agricultural policies were considered detrimental to the American farmer by many members of the American Agriculture Movement. Here newscaster David Brinkley is seen pulling President Carter’s strings as if President Carter was his puppet. President Carter, as well as his cabinet officers, were often vilified for their ineffective policies.

The American Agriculture Movement was started in the fall of 1977 in response to the 1977 Farm Bill which had the adverse affect of dropping commodity prices to a level lower than the cost of production. In February of 1979, members of the American Agriculture Movement organized a tractorcade, a protest on tractors, in Washington, D.C. Farmers from around the country, some driving from more than 1500 miles away, arrived by the thousands. On February 5, they convened in Washington, D.C. from four different directions. In order to accommodate both the protesters and the city’s residents, the D.C. police required them to park on the National Mall and restricted their protests to specific times during the day.