Food Costs--farm Prices: A Compilation of Information Relating to Agriculture |
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acres activities agencies Agricultural Act Agricultural Adjustment Act agricultural commodities agricultural products Agricultural Stabilization amended appropriation authorized average banks bushel cents committee Commodity Credit Corporation conducted Congress cooperative cotton cropland December 31 Department of Agriculture dollars domestic Economic Research Service eligible export facilities Farm Credit Administration farm income farm prices farm products farm value Farmers Home Administration Federal feed grains finance fiscal year 1969 Food stamp program foreign currencies Forest Service funds improvement increase inspection June 30 land legislation livestock loans marketing certificates marketing quotas Marketing Service ment milk national forests nonfarm nutrition operations parity percent plant poultry price support prices received projects Public Law purchase received by farmers recreation retail cost retail prices rural areas Soil Conservation Service sorghums Statistical Reporting Service stocks sugar Sugar Act supply tion trade U.S. Department upland cotton USDA watershed wheat wool
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Page 78 - States in (1) nonprofit schools of high school grade and under, and (2) nonprofit nursery schools, child-care centers, settlement houses, summer camps, and similar nonprofit Institutions devoted to the care and training of children. For the purposes of this section "United States" means the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
Page 99 - ... 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 63 - Management of the Corporation is vested in a board of directors, subject to the general supervision and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture who Is an exofficip director and chairman of the board. The board consists of six members, in addition to the Secretary, who are appointed by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 74 - Solanum tuberosum (Irish potatoes), wool, wool tops, fats and oils (including lard, tallow, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, soybean oil and all other fats and oils), cottonseed meal, cottonseed, peanuts, soybeans, soybean meal, livestock, livestock products, and frozen concentrated orange juice...
Page 58 - Government ; and, in order that such determinations shall be made so as to protect the welfare of consumers and of those engaged in the domestic sugar industry by providing such supply of sugar as will be consumed at prices which will not be excessive to consumers and which will fairly and equitably maintain and protect the welfare of the domestic sugar industry...
Page 70 - All bonds, notes, debentures, and similar obligations Issued by the Corporation are subject to approval by the Secretary of the Treasury as required by the Act of March 8, 1938 (15 USC 713a-4).
Page 71 - No commodity shall be available for disposition under this Act if such disposition would reduce the domestic supply of such commodity below that needed to meet domestic requirements, adequate carryover, and anticipated exports for dollars as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture at the time of exportation of such commodity. (6) Section 402 of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, which provides as follows: The term "agricultural commodity...
Page 100 - ... for the purpose of financing the wiring of premises and the acquisition and installation of electrical and plumbing appliances and equipment shall not exceed two-thirds of the assured life thereof and not more than five years.
Page 67 - Interest have been treated as program rather than administrative expenses. Such expenses Include inspection, classing, and grading work performed on a fee basis by Federal employees or Federal- or State-licensed Inspectors and work performed on a contract or fee basis by Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committees.
Page 100 - Members of the livestock, poultry, and meat industries are also protected against unfair or monopolistic practices of competitors.