Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1964: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 |
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... chemical industries . Agriculture has never been able to do this . Under these condi- tions the farmer , as has been true since the dawn of time , will not be able to compete successfully for his fair return on what he produces with ...
... chemical industries . Agriculture has never been able to do this . Under these condi- tions the farmer , as has been true since the dawn of time , will not be able to compete successfully for his fair return on what he produces with ...
Page 376
... chemicals shorten plant stems and might be used to prevent wind damage to crops , or to make them easier to harvest ... chemical treatments that give 80 - percent control of seepage in canals . These treatments cost only about 10 cents ...
... chemicals shorten plant stems and might be used to prevent wind damage to crops , or to make them easier to harvest ... chemical treatments that give 80 - percent control of seepage in canals . These treatments cost only about 10 cents ...
Page 378
... chemical insecticides , since they are still the mainstay of agriculture's defense against in- sects . But our long concern with residues , together with the growing resistance of insects to chemicals , has led to a steady shift in ...
... chemical insecticides , since they are still the mainstay of agriculture's defense against in- sects . But our long concern with residues , together with the growing resistance of insects to chemicals , has led to a steady shift in ...
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... chemical largely imported at present . FOOD AND FEED PRODUCTS But new industrial , uses are only half the story . Food and feed uses also offer tremendous potential for increasing markets for farm products . New poultry , dairy , and ...
... chemical largely imported at present . FOOD AND FEED PRODUCTS But new industrial , uses are only half the story . Food and feed uses also offer tremendous potential for increasing markets for farm products . New poultry , dairy , and ...
Page 381
... chemical treatments and cultura . practices is proving effective , and we are making rapid progress toward eliminating witchweed . CONTROL In many cases , however , we are not so fortunate . We often do not have sufficient knowledge to ...
... chemical treatments and cultura . practices is proving effective , and we are making rapid progress toward eliminating witchweed . CONTROL In many cases , however , we are not so fortunate . We often do not have sufficient knowledge to ...
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acreage acres ADDABBO additional agencies Agricultural Marketing Service Agricultural Research Service amount animal disease annual appropriation average bales brucellosis budget estimates cattle chart chemical CLARKSON COCHRANE committee Commodity Credit Corporation Conservation Service cooperative corn costs cotton crops dairy Department of Agriculture dollars Duration effect equivalent eradication excluding regional executed exports facilities farm Farmers Home Administration Federal feed grain fiscal year 1962 foot-and-mouth disease Forest Service forestry funds Grant herbicides HORAN improved income increase Indian rupees industry infested Israeli pounds khapra beetle laboratory land livestock loan meat inspection ment MICHEL milk million nutrition operation payments percent pest plant Polish zlotys poultry pounds price support problems processing projects Public Law 480 quarantine RODENHISER Rural Areas Development Salaries and expenses screwworm Secretary FREEMAN soil sorghum soybean studies tion tobacco Total United watershed weeds wheat WHITTEN
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Page 155 - An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five and for other purposes.
Page 155 - ... encourage the domestic consumption of such commodities or products by diverting them, by the payment of benefits or indemnities or by other means, from the normal channels of trade and commerce or by increasing their utilization through benefits, indemnities, donations or by other means, among persons in low income groups as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (3) reestablish farmers' purchasing power by making payments in connection with the normal production of any agricultural...
Page 158 - ... nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies...
Page 7 - Budget, it shall concurrently transmit copies thereof to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
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