Review of Food, Agricultural, and Farm Credit Legislation: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session

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Page 4 - The price of whole milk, butterfat, and the products of such commodities, respectively, shall be supported at such level not in excess of 90 per centum nor less .than 75 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary determines necessary .in order to assure an adequate supply. Such price support shall be provided through loans on, or purchases of, the products of milk and butterfat.
Page 2 - Provided, That in the case of any crop for which an acreage diversion program is in effect for feed grains, the level of price support for corn of such crop shall be at such level not less than 65 per centum or more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary determines necessary to achieve the acreage reduction goal established by him for the crop.
Page 4 - SEC. 409. No agreements to finance sales under title I and no programs of assistance under title II shall be entered into after December 31, 1968. SEC. 410.
Page 15 - Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and are applicable to the 1986 through 1990 crops of peanuts.
Page 78 - Well, because, once again, we had the jurisdiction, and we made them at least put on the words "the Surgeon General has determined that smoking is dangerous to your health, ' but, again, you are public property and Government licensed and I guess they figured they could do this.
Page 2 - Section 336 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 USC 1336). If wheat marketing quotas are proclaimed and approved by two-thirds or more of the farmers voting in the referendum, such quotas would be in effect; land-use penalties for failure to make mandatory diversion of acreage to approved crops would be payable under the provisions of Section 339 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended...
Page 33 - Price support through loans or purchases for corn at such level not less than 50 percent or more than 90 percent of parity as the Secretary determines will not result in increasing CCC stocks of corn (other feed grains at a level which is fair and reasonable in relation to the level for corn).
Page 2 - SEC. 107. The Secretary is authorized to make available through loans, purchases, or other operations price support to producers for peanuts at such level not in excess of 90 per centum of the parity price therefor...
Page 46 - Is announced, except that to prevent the establishment of such a loan level as would adversely affect the competitive position of US upland cotton, following one or more years of excessively high prices, the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to keep US upland cotton competitive and to retain an adequate share of the world market for such cotton.
Page 46 - Secretary shall issue regulations defining the term 'person' and prescribing such rules as he determines necessary to assure a fair and reasonable application of such limitation : Provided, That the provisions of this Act which limit payments to any person shall not be applicable to lands owned by States, political subdivisions, or agencies thereof, so long as such lands are farmed primarily in the direct furtherance of a public function, as determined by the Secretary.

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