Review the Activities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Crop Reporting Board: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, February 23, 1984 |
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1984 Crop Production 1984 Supply/Demand Report acreage agency budget Chairman committee commodity commodity markets concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman corn and soybeans Crop Data Improvement crop production figures Crop Production Report Crop Reporting Board Crop Reporting Service data users DAUB Demand Estimates report Department of Agriculture DONALD economic EVANS of Iowa farm FEBRUARY 23 forecasts Gary Mitchell Garza going Grain Stocks Report HAL DAUB hearing inconsistencies indicate issue January 13 report KIBLER LIBRA LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lockup area look Martin-Marietta ment mills and elevators National Farmers Union nonprobability sampling OLIN Pat Roberts PENNY percent production and stocks production estimates questions recommendations record Red Barber release reliability Report for soybeans ROBERTS sample soybeans and corn staff changes statistical methodology Statistical Reporting Service Supply and Demand survey data survey methodology Thank tion U.S. Department USDA USDA's Washington
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Page 56 - That there is hereby established at the seat of government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 56 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 56 - Agriculture shall procure and preserve 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 56 - ... 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; to collect as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests ; to propagate such...
Page 56 - That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture 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 25 - Mr. Chairman. I would like to follow up a little bit on the APHIS regulation, Mr.
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Page 22 - ... commissioned by the city of Philadelphia, which proposes to show some $4 million cost differonce. I think that is in your statement. Mr. GROSSHANS. Yes. Mr. TRIBLE. Why don't you touch on that very briefly. Mr. GUTMANN. All right. Mr. Davis was charged with the responsibility of analyzing that study, and I would like to ask him to comment on it. Mr. DAVIS. I think Mr. TRIBLE. Is the Wharton study question addressed in your prepared statement? Mr. DAVIS. Appendix III to our statement carriers...