Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations for 1986: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, Part 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - Library lacks vol. I. |
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1985 Estimated administrative agencies Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Research Service AKAKA amount animal appropriated aquaculture areas assistance Beltsville BENTLEY brucellosis budget Child Nutrition Committee commodities Congress Cooperative Cooperative State Research costs crop CSFP Dakota Department disease evaluation Extension Service farm farmers Federal fiscal year 1985 Florida FmHA Food and Nutrition Food Stamp Program funds germplasm Guam Hawaii Human Nutrition improved increase information follows insect institutions JORDAN KINNEY Laboratory LEARD Library loan Michigan million National NAYLOR North Carolina North Dakota nutrient Nutrition Programs Nutrition Service Office operating participation percent pest Pesticide problems projects proposed Public Law Puerto Rico reduced regional request RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM Research on plant rural School Lunch scientists Section September 30 soybean staff tion Total TRAXLER Tuskegee Institute Univ University USDA WATKINS WHITTEN
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Page 623 - That there is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general design 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 627 - Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706{a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 USC 2225), and not to exceed...
Page 1074 - ... unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance their actual needs at reasonable rates and terms, taking into consideration prevailing private and cooperative rates and terms in the community in or near which the applicant resides for loans for similar purposes and periods of time.
Page 1176 - insured" are made from three loan revolving funds. The oldest is the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund (ACIF), established when FmHA began to make insured loans in the 1940's, and now the fund from which all farmer-program loans are made. The Rural Housing Insurance Fund (RHIF) was established with inauguration of insured rural housing loans in 1965. The Rural Development Insurance Fund (RDIF), established under the Rural Development Act of 1972, took over from ACIF the agency's lending for water,...
Page 1053 - If the borrowers are persons of low or moderate income, and if their need for necessary housing cannot be met with financial assistance from other sources, including assistance available under section...
Page 557 - Cooperative agricultural extension work was established by the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914, as amended. The legislation authorizes the Department of Agriculture to give, through the Land-Grant Colleges, instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics and related subjects and to encourage the application of such information by means of demonstrations, publications, and otherwise to persons not attending or resident in the colleges.
Page 623 - ... 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 846 - That up to 5 per centum of the foregoing amount may be placed in reserve to be apportioned pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations...
Page 605 - ... the United States for the analysis and evaluation of foreign books, periodicals, and other materials to determine whether they would provide information of technical or scientific significance in the United States and whether such books, periodicals, and other materials are of cultural or educational significance...