Milk Research and Development Program: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, First Session ... August 8, 1969U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 30 pages |
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Page 1 - Act of 1937, as amended, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended, is further amended, by adding at the end of subsection...
Page 13 - The cooperative associations affiliated with the federation do business in all 50 States of the Union.
Page 2 - ... circumstances. The programs authorized by HR 10710 would be financed by deductions from funds owed to producers under the order. Deductions could be made directly from the total pool value of all producer milk. An equitable adjustment could be made in areas where a mandatory checkoff from dairy farmers for advertising and research is required by State law. Funds would be paid to an agency organized by milk producers and associations of producers. This agency could employ persons and organizations...
Page 1 - Such funds shall be paid to an agency organized by milk producers and producers' cooperative associations in such form and with such methods of operation as shall be specified in the order. Such agency may expend such funds for any of the purposes authorized by this subparagraph and may designate, employ, and allocate funds to persons and organizations engaged in such programs which meet the standards and qualifications specified in the order. All funds collected' under this subparagraph shall be...
Page 6 - Mr. Chairman, I am very pleased that you have scheduled this hearing...
Page 2 - Provided, that such demand shall be made personally by such producer in accordance with regulations and on a form and within a time period prescribed by the Board and approved by the Secretary but in no event...
Page 14 - Federal Government but, in fact, may serve to reduce the cost of maintaining the price level to dairy farmers under the price-support program. This is because any increase in milk consumption which the industry might realize as a result of the promotion efforts would leave less milk for manufacture into butter, nonfat dry milk, and cheese, which are purchased under the price-support program to undergird the price structure. The need for authority such as contained in IT.TJ.
Page 15 - The plan, when developed, would be submitted to the Department of Agriculture as a proposed amendment to a Federal milk marketing order. Under the regular procedures, the Department would then schedule a public hearing at which all interested parties would have an opportunity to make any appropriate comments. Following the public hearing, as customary, the Department of Agriculture would review the hearing record and issue a recommended decision containing the program, which would provide a second...
Page 8 - Disapproval or termination of such order provisions shall not be considered disapproval of the order or of other terms of the order. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, as amended, any producer against whose marketings any assessment is withheld or collected under the authority of this subparagraph, and who is not in favor of supporting the research and promotion programs, as provided for herein, shall have the right to demand and receive a refund of such assessment pursuant to the terms...
Page 15 - Operationally, the market administrator could write a single check to the advertising fund, avoiding computations for each of the thousands of dairy farmers shipping milk to a market, such as would be necessary if the program were set up as a deduction from gross amounts otherwise due individual farmers, which would require computation of an individual amount for each farmer and would appear as an item on his milk check. The program, as we envision it. would simply be a cost of marketing milk under...