Seed needed: help fight famine
Agricultural poster: two cupped hands pour out clover and alfalfa seed under the headline 'Seed Needed' and the line 'Help Fight Famine', with a red disc announcing 1946 special payments. The technique is faint: a broad humanitarian cause ('famine') is paired with a plain farm task and a payment incentive.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Production and Marketing Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Production and Marketing Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1694 (NAID 515365).
Text on the object
SEED NEEDED RED CLOVER- ALFALFA -ALSIKE FOR MORE FEED and BIGGER CROPS 1946 SPECIAL PAYMENTS AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM HELP FIGHT FAMINE PRODUCTION AND MARKETING ADMINISTRATION — U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 1946 [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946, remainder illegible]
