Farm bills gave financial assistance to farmers who were struggling due to an excess crop supply creating low prices, and also to control and ensure an adequate food supply. The benefit to farmers was supposed to outweigh the hurt to consumers who paid higher food proces. Poor consumers, however, were beneficiaries of other New Deal programs. On May 12, 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933 into law. The AAA also included a nutrition program for sonsumers, the precursor to food stamps.