[1] Starting from left-wing agrarian and Christian leftist ideas, the party moved onto an independent ideological position, with the sole goal to defend the small farmers against major landowners.

Its symbol was several ears of corn between two bunches of grapes, and its newspaper was called La Voce del Contadino ('The Peasant's Voice').

The party, founded in Piedmont, was never able to rise on a national plan, being limited to the Po Valley.

However, the Christian Democracy had strongly taken the representation of the agrarian interests,[4] and the party was consequently marginalised.

It survived on the local level, but eventually disbanded and in 1963 merged with the Italian Republican Party.