entific innovations in agriculture, to produce high quality yields and better methods of farming. Hoover proposed a market price that farmers could not refuse, if and only if their yields could be regulated by government. This would essentially reduce the amount of excess crops, and keep market prices stable. Through this action associative activity developed between farmers, who in turn organized into Farm Bureaus. For the first time in American history we see the idea of the associative state manifest itself in the agriculture industry....