Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - United States |
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acreage acres activities additional Administration aflatoxin agency agricultural research amended animal Answer appropriation areas authority average BAGLEY beef budget bushels CFTC Chairman Commodity Credit Corporation Commodity Exchange Act commodity options Congress contract Cooperative corn costs cotton countries crop Cumulative Decision Unit/Level Department of Agriculture direct marketing domestic dry milk economic effective eligible institutions estimated exchanges export farmers Federal feed grain financing fiscal year 1978 FmHA Food and Agriculture funds futures contracts HJORT impact improve increase industry inspection livestock loan rate market prices milk million pounds Minimum nutrition Office operations parity parity price payments peanuts percent personnel plant price support problems production projects proposed Question reduce regulations request Secretary BERGLAND Senator BELLMON Senator BURDICK Senator EAGLETON September 30 Service set-aside sorghum soybeans staff stocks storage supplemental supply tion United upland cotton USDA wheat
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Page 428 - So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred...
Page 731 - Commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction with respect, to accounts, agreements (including any transaction which is of the character of, or is commonly known to the trade as, an 'option', 'privilege', 'indemnity', 'bid', 'offer', 'put', 'call', 'advance guaranty', or 'decline guaranty ), and transactions involving contracts of sale of a commodity for future delivery...
Page 926 - States commissioner of agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will be"st promote the purposes of this act.
Page 1079 - The act also provides that any amount in excess of $90,000 available for allotment to any State, exclusive of the regional research fund, shall be matched by the State out of its own funds for research, and for the establishment and maintenance of facilities necessary for the prosecution of such research.
Page 426 - Members of the Authority shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and...
Page 926 - Secretary to have been improperly diminished, lost, or misapplied, it shall be replaced by the State concerned and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be allotted or paid to any institute of such State.
Page 925 - Stat 39), administrative planning and direction, and for the purchase and rental of land and the construction, acquisition, alteration, or repair of buildings necessary for conducting research.
Page 929 - ... by the Secretary, in consultation with the recipient or recipients, to be useful and beneficial to the State; (B) is located in the State on land owned or operated by that State and, if practicable, on the State agricultural experiment station farm land; and (C) includes other farming practices, such as raising livestock and crops, in order to provide a model of a farm which applies new and improved methods of agriculture through the use of solar energy as a means of heating, cooling, drying,...
Page 428 - Budget shall determine, shall be transferred to the appropriate agency, or component at such time or times as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide, except that no such unexpended balances transferred shall be used for purposes other than those for which the appropriation was originally made. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide for terminating the affairs of...
Page 145 - The land diversion payments for a farm shall be at such rate or rates as the Secretary determines to be fair and reasonable taking into consideration the diversion undertaken by the producers and the productivity of the acreage diverted. The Secretary shall limit the total acreage to be diverted under agreements in any county or local community so as not to adversely affect the economy of the county or local community.