Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1959: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 |
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acreage reserve acreage-reserve program acres additional agencies agreement Agricultural Marketing Service Agricultural Research Service allotment amount ANDERSEN animal annual appropriation approximately ASC office assistance authority average borrowers brucellosis budget bushels BYERLY Chairman CLARKSON Commission committee Commodity Credit Corporation Congress conservation contract cooperative corn cost cotton County ASC crops Crowley County Dakota Department of Agriculture disease economic emergency loans eradication estimated exports Extension Service farm farmers Federal fiscal year 1957 funds Government Home Administration HORAN hundredweight improvement income increase industrial insured loans interest Kiowa County land livestock MARSHALL ment milk million acres NATCHER North Carolina operations participation payments percent personnel Pinal County placed plans plant problems projects Public Law 566 Puerto Rico received record reserve program rural Secretary soil bank sorghums South Dakota staff subsidies Texas tion United USDA utilization research watershed wheat WHITTEN
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