Livestock Marketing: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices of ..., 94-1 on S. 1532 ..., S. 2034 ..., July 19 ... 25, 1975 |
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amended American Beef Packers amount authority bank bankruptcy bill bonding company bonding requirements buyer buying cash cattle cattle feeders certified check Chairman commerce Commission committee Congress cost creditors Department of Agriculture enforcement Farm Bureau farmers Federal feedlots funds going Gose hearing Independent Meat Packers injunction involved Iowa Kansas legislation lien livestock broker livestock dealer livestock industry LIVESTOCK LAWS REFORM livestock market livestock producers livestock purchased losses market agencies meatpackers million Nebr Nebraska Omaha operations packer bonding Packers and Stockyards packing paid percent person poultry president priority problem producers and feeders prompt payment proposed protection purveyors regulations reparation Representative THONE retailers SANDERS sell sellers of livestock Senator CLARK Senator CURTIS Senator DOLE slaughter slaughter livestock sold South Dakota statement Stockyards Act Stockyards Administration Thank tion Title transactions U.S. SENATOR Uniform Commercial Code violation wire transfer YENZER
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