Dairy Programs: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on S.398 [and Others] ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - 442 pages |
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75 percent Agricultural Adjustment Act allocation amended average BARTLETT base plan bill blend price butter butterfat cents CHAIRMAN cheese class I base class I price Colby cheese committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY CONKEY consumer consumption cooperative cost cows cream dairy farmers dairy industry dairy products dairy program dairymen Department of Agriculture direct payments ducers effect ELLENDER excess milk Federal order markets going Government handlers HEALY hearings hundredweight income legislation manufacturing milk March 18 Marketing Agreement Act marketing area milk marketing orders milk price Milk Producers milkshed million pounds nonfat dry milk operation percent of parity period plants pool present price support problem proposed purchases questions quota reduce REED Secretary of Agriculture sell Senator AIKEN Senator JOHNSTON Senator PROXMIRE Senator TALMADGE South Carolina statement subparagraph Subtotal supply support prices surplus milk tion total milk U.S. Department U.S. SENATE United voluntary vote Wisconsin York
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Page 16 - Secretary deems fair and reasonable, to be paid out of any moneys available for such payments. . . . (2) To enter into marketing agreements with processors, associations of producers, and others engaged in the handling, in the current of interstate or foreign commerce of any agricultural commodity or product thereof, after due notice and opportunity for hearing to interested parties.
Page 16 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefore, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 153 - ... (B) Providing: (i) for the payment to all producers and associations of producers delivering milk to the same handler of uniform prices for all milk delivered by them...
Page 16 - Congress to establish in subsection (1) of this section by gradual correction of the current level at as rapid a rate as the Secretary of Agriculture deems to be in the public interest and feasible in view of the current consumptive demand in domestic and foreign markets...
Page 16 - Such loans shall not be in excess of such amounts as may be authorized by the agreements. (3) To issue licenses permitting processors, associations of producers, and others to engage in the handling, in the current of interstate or foreign commerce, of any agricultural commodity or product thereof, or any competing commodity or product thereof.
Page 16 - Such licenses shall be subject to such terms and conditions, not in conflict with existing acts of Congress or regulations pursuant thereto, as may be necessary to eliminate unfair practices or charges that prevent or tend to prevent the effectuation of the declared policy and the restoration of normal economic conditions in the marketing of such commodities or products and the financing thereof. The Secretary of Agriculture may suspend or revoke any such license, after due notice and opportunity...
Page 174 - Agriculture must support prices of milk and butterfat at a level between 75 and 90 percent of parity that will assure an adequate supply of milk. Support for farm prices is provided indirectly through Government purchases of butter, cheddar cheese, and nonfat dry milk. Prior to World War II, purchases of evaporated milk also were made for the purpose of supporting farm prices.
Page 296 - Agriculture under this title, to establish and maintain such orderly marketing conditions for agricultural commodities in interstate commerce as will establish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 223 - ... are not reasonable in view of the price of feeds, the available supplies of feeds, and other economic conditions which affect market supply and demand...
Page 174 - Government has stocks on hand, they are made available to the trade at prices only slightly above support prices. Thus these stocks tend to keep market prices from rising appreciably above support prices. The net loss under the program reached an alltime high of $530 million in the 1962 fiscal year. This amount was nearly four times as great as the average for the 3 fiscal years immediately preceding. What has been learned, or should have been learned? Here are several points that all too often are...