Agriculture-environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1972, Hearings Before ... 92-1- |
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acres activities additional adjusted Administration agencies Agricultural Research Service amount areas assistance basis BRADY Budget Estimate budget request chemicals committee commodities Commodity Credit Corporation Cooperative costs cotton County crop dairy decrease Department of Agriculture disease dollars economic effective ELLENDER Environmental experiment stations exports Extension Service facilities farm farmers Farmers Home Administration Federal financed fiscal year 1971 Food Stamp Program foreign Forest FRICK funds gypsy moth HEKMAN improve income increase information follows inspection insured KENNETH GRANT laboratory livestock loans lunch man-years meat ment milk million National North Dakota operating participation payments percent pest control pesticides planning plant poultry pounds problems production projects proposed Puerto Rico question record reduced rice Secretary HARDIN Senator HOLLAND Senator HRUSKA Senator MCGEE soil and water soybean soybean cyst nematode statement studies Subtotal tion Total USDA watershed wheat YEUTTER
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Page 222 - The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to conduct a special cotton research program designed to reduce the cost of producing upland cotton in the United States at the earliest practicable date. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $10,000,000 annually, as may be necessary for the Secretary to carry out this special research program.
Page 147 - Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used except that, so far as practicable, all contracts shall be awarded on a formally advertised competitive bid basis to the lowest responsible bidder.
Page 609 - To regulate commerce among the several States, with the Territories and possessions of the United States, and with foreign countries : to protect the welfare of consumers of sugars and of those engaged in the domestic sugar-producing industry : to promote the export trade of the United States ; to raise revenue : and for other purposes.
Page 434 - ... to acquire and preserve In his Department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence and by practical and scientific experiments (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept In his office), by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power...
Page 107 - Dakota related to irrigated forage production and grass breeding at the present time; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Board of Directors of the Garrison Diversion...
Page 50 - A decrease of $4.580.000 due to elimination of nonrecurring items provided ^.n 1971 Appropriation Act for planning and construction of research facilities. Funds for the following nonrecurring items provided in fiscal year 1971 will not be needed in 1972: Construction of grassland research facility, Temple, Texas $1,500,000 Completion of all phase I construction, US Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska 1,800,000 Modernization of Northeast soil and ' water conservation, Orono, Maine .. 600,000...
Page 656 - The preceding project statement reflects estimated obligations on the basis of available funds. The rate at which expenditures and obligations are made under these programs is Influenced by crop conditions, commodity availability, economic conditions in receiving countries, availability of shipping, port facilities and similar factors. The amounts provided in the...
Page 396 - The basic job of the Cooperative Extension Service is to help people identify and solve their farm, home, and community problems through use of research findings of the Department of Agriculture and the State Land-Grant Colleges, and programs administered by the Department of Agriculture.
Page 712 - In established summerf allow areas, if at least 55 percent of the cropland is devotsd to a summerf allow use, no further acreage is required to be set aside. 5. A preliminary payment will be made soon after July 1 to producers based on the farm yield times 75 percent of the difference between the estimated parity on July 1 and the estimated national average market price during the first five months of the marketing year beginning July 1. A final payment will be made around December based on the difference...
Page 908 - Exports to this area amounted to approximately $ 12 million in 1971, up from 9 million in 1970. gature of Program: The program is designed to develop the image in the public eye of leather as a quality, stylish product superior to substitutes. The objective is to expand consumption of leather which in turn provides a greater market outlet for hides. Since the US uses only about 60$ of domestic hide production, leaving approximately Uoi for export, this Is a significant economic goal.