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AMEND TOBACCO MARKETING QUOTA

PROVISIONS

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COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 6485 and H.R. 6799

APRIL 12, 1973

Serial 93-M

Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1973

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Additional information submitted to the subcommittee:

Growers urged to proceed with caution in cultivating Maryland leaf__
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Classification of leaf tobacco covering classes, types, and groups of
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AMEND TOBACCO MARKETING QUOTA PROVISIONS

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1973

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

TOBACCO SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE,
Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2:10 p.m., in room 1301, Longworth House Office Building, the Honorable Frank A. Stubblefield (chairman) presiding.

Present: Representatives Stubblefield, Jones of North Carolina, Mathis, Rose, Wampler, and Mizell.

Also present: Representative Ed Jones of Tennessee.

Fowler C. West, staff director; Hyde H. Murray, associate counsel; John Rainbolt, assistant counsel; Steve Allen, staff consultant; and Martha Hannah, subcommittee clerk.

Mr. STUBBLEFIELD. The committee will please come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to consider H.R. 6485, which relates to the impact of nonquota tobacco in traditional areas producing burley, Flue-cured, and dark tobacco.

For the benefit of new members-we have two more members coming-I would just like briefly to make a historical statement.

Public Law 92-10 was approved on April 14, 1971, to provide for a more effective production adjustment program for burley tobacco by establishing farm marketing quotas in pounds rather than in acres. This law was necessitated by the fact that the yield per acre for burley tobacco had increased from an average of 1,316 pounds in the 1949-53 period, to 2,590 pounds per acre in 1970.

This law provided for a referendum of burley tobacco growers to determine whether they favored or opposed the establishment of marketing quotas on a poundage basis. It is necessary for two-thirds or more of the farmers voting in the referendum to approve same, if marketing quotas and price supports are to be in effect. Burley farmers voting in a referendum held May 4, 1971, favored the establishment of marketing quotas on a poundage basis by 96.6 percent. Therefore, poundage quotas have been in effect for 1971, 1972, and 1973 crops of burley tobacco.

It was felt that with the enactment of the aforementioned statute that all production and marketing problems for burley tobacco had been eliminated. However, in 1972 there was produced in the burley area approximately 800,000 pounds of tobacco allegedly produced from Maryland-type tobacco seed. Maryland tobacco is not grown under production controls and the production of this nonquota tobacco in the traditional burley area is jeopardizing the burley program. The burley grower leadership feel that farmers may produce

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