Dairy Import Act of 1967: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, on S. 612, a Bill to Regulate Imports of Milk and Dairy Products, and for Other Purposes, May 16, 18, and 19, 1967 |
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action Agricultural Adjustment Act American cheese amount average bill blue mold butter butterfat butterfat-sugar mixtures Chairman Cheddar cheese cheese imports Colby cheese committee commodities Commodity Credit Corporation consumption cows dairy farmers Dairy Import Act dairy industry dairy products dairymen DEFELICE Department of Agriculture domestic dairy domestic production dry milk economic Edam and Gouda effect established evaporated milk exports farm prices fluid milk foreign FROMER GONZENBACH Gouda cheese hearing ice cream import controls import quotas import restrictions imports of dairy increase Italian-type cheese Junex legislation manufacturing milk milk equivalent million pounds nonfat milk solids parity pounds of milk President price support program problem purchases quantity record Roquefort cheese SCHNITTKER Secretary of Agriculture section 22 Senator HOLLAND Senator MONDALE Senator PROXMIRE Senator YOUNG sheep's milk statement subcommittee sugar supply Tariff Commission testimony tion trade types of cheese U.S. dairy U.S. Department U.S. SENATOR United USDA Wisconsin
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Page 57 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 237 - Agriculture has reason to believe that any article or articles are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with...
Page 58 - Parity," as applied to income, shall be that gross income from agriculture which will provide the farm operator and his family with a standard of living equivalent to those afforded persons dependent upon other gainful occupation. "Parity...
Page 35 - ... he shall so advise the President, and, if the President agrees that there is reason for such belief, the President shall cause an immediate investigation to be made by the United States Tariff Commission, which shall give precedence to investigations under tlu's section to determine such facts.
Page 35 - ... Commission, which shall give precedence to investigations under this section to determine such facts. Such investigation shall be made after due notice and opportunity for hearing to interested parties, and shall be conducted subject to such regulations as the President shall specify.
Page 54 - ... reestablishment, at as rapid a rate as the Secretary of Agriculture determines to be practicable and in the general public interest, of the ratio between the purchasing power of the net income per person on farms and that of the income per person not on farms that prevailed during the five-year period August 1909-July 1914, inclusive, as determined from statistics available in the United States Department of Agriculture, and the maintenance of such ratio.
Page 55 - For the purpose of stabilizing, supporting, and protecting farm income and prices, of assisting in the maintenance of balanced and adequate supplies of agricultural commodities, products thereof, foods, feeds, and fibers (hereinafter collectively referred to as "agricultural commodities"), and of facilitating the orderly distribution of agricultural commodities...
Page 3 - STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM PROXMIRE, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF WISCONSIN Senator PROXMIRE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Congressman Schadeberg.
Page 55 - ... to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, and rice to the extent necessary to provide an orderly, adequate, and balanced flow of such commodities in interstate and foreign commerce through storage of reserve supplies, loans, marketing quotas, assisting farmers to obtain, insofar as practicable, parity prices for such commodities and parity of income, and assisting consumers to obtain an adequate and steady supply of such commodities at fair prices.
Page 35 - ... or materially interfere with, any program or operation undertaken ... by the Department of Agriculture, or any agency operating under its direction, with respect to any agricultural commodity or product thereof...