Agricultural Adjustment, a Report (sutitle Varies)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 |
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acres adjustment contracts adjustment payments adjustment program agreements and licenses Agricultural Adjustment Act Agricultural Adjustment Administration allotment amended amount approximately average farm price bales base acreage benefit payments bushels California Carolina cash income cattle cents per bushel cents per pound committee Commodity Credit Corporation Congress conservation consumers consumption cooperating corn and hogs corn-hog cotton court crop dairy products Dakota December 31 dollars domestic drought drought areas effect emergency estimated expenditures exports farm income farm products farmers Federal feed funds growers harvested increased industry July land livestock loans marketing agreement ment million bushels North Carolina parity peanuts percent period planted potatoes processing tax processors production-adjustment production-control Puerto Rico purchasing power quotas reduction regions regulations relief rental and benefit rice season Secretary of Agriculture seed shipments short tons soil soil-conserving South Dakota sugar beets sugarcane supplies surplus tion tobacco United Virginia wheat
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Page 112 - Agriculture determines to be practicable and in the general public interest, of the ratio between the purchasing power of the net income per person on farms and that of the income per person not on farms that prevailed during the five-year period August 1909-July 1914, inclusive, as determined from statistics available in the United States Department of Agriculture, and the maintenance of such ratio.
Page 135 - The purpose of the county committee shall be to direct the administration of sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act...
Page 111 - Such powers shall not be used to discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the Secretary from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 1920 to 1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population, quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption by decline in exports during such period, current...
Page 139 - Its original capital stock of $3,000,000 was subscribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, to be held jointly for and in behalf of the United States.
Page 326 - Whenever the processing tax is suspended or is to be refunded pursuant to a certification of the Secretary of Agriculture to the /Secretary of the Treasury, under section 15 (a) of this Act, the provisions of subdivision (1) of subsection (c) of this section shall become applicable.
Page 247 - We would save and encourage the slowly growing impulse among consumers to enter the market place equipped with sufficient organization to insist upon fair prices and honest sales.
Page 101 - ... growers, laborers, and taxpayers and a corresponding gain to domestic sugar processors and foreign sugar producers. The loss to sugar beet growers that resulted automatically, under the established grower-processor contracts, from invalidation of the former processing tax and production-adjustment payments, was equal to approximately 50 percent of the former tax. (The decline in the income of growers was offset to some extent by payments under the 1936 agricultural conservation program.) It is...
Page 326 - Act, is authorized by proclamation to make the provisions of this title applicable to the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, and/or the island of Guam.
Page 326 - In the case of sugar beets and sugarcane, this subsection shall be applicable to exports of products thereof to the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, and/or the island of Guam only if this title with respect to sugar beets and sugarcane is not made applicable thereto. The term ' product ' includes any product exported as merchandise, or as a container for merchandise, or otherwise.
Page 326 - ... possession of the United States except Puerto Rico, of any manufactured sugar, or any article manufactured wholly or partly from manufactured sugar, with respect to which tax under the provisions of section...