In this powerful historical video, Clifford Ribner lays out how federal “reforms” and bureaucracy devastated America’s family farms—and how those decisions still shape what we eat today.

For more than a century, Washington claimed to be “helping farmers.” The record shows the opposite. Policies from the Federal Reserve Act (1913) to the Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933) centralized power, distorted markets, and wiped out small, independent farms—while empowering bureaucracies and corporate agribusiness.

The video traces this story from the rise of federal food regulation in the early 1900s to the New Deal’s sweeping controls on production and pricing. The result wasn’t prosperity—it was consolidation, dependency, and fewer choices for every American family.

The New Deal promised to save America’s farms—in reality, it betrayed them.

What you’ll see in this video

• – How federal control—not market forces—pushed small farms off their land
• – Why New Deal policies locked in subsidies, licensing, and red tape that favor the biggest players
• – The collapse from 6+ million family farms to roughly 2 million—and what that means for food freedom
• – Why the Constitution never authorized federal management of agriculture

This is one of Clifford Ribner’s clearest explanations of how central planning undermines liberty, prosperity, and the very people it claims to protect.

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