Flannagan-Hope Bill

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Agricultural Research was boosted in the United States by the passage of the Flannagan-Hope Bill, officially known as The Research and Marketing Act of 1946. This was the source of funds to establish the Wind Erosion Project in Manhattan Kansas in late 1947. The project was under the administrative supervision of the Research Division of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), now the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), until 1953, when all soil conservation research, except that related to the National Cooperative Soil Survey, were transferred to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

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