Os protegidos de Ceres: produtores, moageiros e política cerealífera nos Açores (1923-1932)

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This article departs from the economic and political context of the transition from the 1920s to the 1930s to study the evolution of the cereal policy in Azores. In this dynamic change process, agriculture, in general, and cereal farming, in particular, have been heavily targeted by public policies and governmental decisions. Our main purposes are the analysis of the organization, relations and implications of the activities of the agents involved in the commodity chain of wheat. It was concluded that the forms of public mobilization and pressure of the economic elites, in this case, the millers and agricultural landowners, on the political instances were not far from what occurred in the continental context, although the state has become the ultimate regulatory element.