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United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal the mandatory honey price support program. Repeals similar authority for the tung nut price support program.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Omnibus Marketing User Fee Act of 1983 - Title I: Federal Marketing Agreements and Orders - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to assess handlers for the costs of marketing agreements and orders under such Act. Authorizes, if necessary, a specified transfer of funds to cover related administrative expenses. Title II: Printed Reports for Cotton and Tobacco Market Information and Statistics - Amends the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, and the Tobacco Inspection Act to authorize user fees to recover the costs of printing and handling cotton and tobacco marketing information. Title III: Plant Variety Protection - Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to permit plant variety protection fees to be used without fiscal year limitation to cover related administrative costs. Title IV: Wool and Mohair Promotion Programs - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to authorize the Secretary to recover administrative costs incurred in promoting wool and mohair.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to reimburse farmers (in cash or in kind) for the costs of applying conservation practices to acreage diverted under an acreage limitation program for the 1982 through 1985 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, rice, and soybeans.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Designates October 16, 1983, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Ocean Freight Competition Act of 1983 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to exclude federally financed agricultural commodities from the requirement that cargoes procured, furnished, or financed by the United States be transported on privately owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels and vessels of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Fragile Lands Preservation Act of 1983 - Makes crops produced on highly erodible land (as defined by this Act) after 1983 ineligible for agricultural price supports, disaster payments, and storage facility loans. Exempts from such prohibitions production under an approved soil conservation system. Authorizes conservation incentive payments (in cash or in-kind) for land retired from commodity production for at least seven consecutive years.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1983 - Title I: References to the Food Stamp Act of 1977 - Declares that amendments or repeals made by this Act, unless otherwise noted, shall be considered amendments or repeals to the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Title II: Food Stamp Budgetary Revisions - Amends such Act to revise the definition of household to remove references to parents, children, and siblings and insert references to groups of individuals living together. States that sanctions against any member of a household shall not disqualify the entire household from the food stamp program. Changes the thrifty food plan adjustments schedules for October 1, 1983, and October 1, 1984, to April 1, 1984, and April 1, 1985, respectively. Changes subsequent October 1 adjustments to the next April 1. Replaces the current standard deduction, excess shelter expense deduction, and the combined dependent care/excess shelter expense deduction with a standard/shelter deduction. Removes provisions for adjustments to the dependent care deduction and sets forth a maximum allowable amount. Conforms the standard earnings deduction with such deduction under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program (AFDC) under the Social Security Act. Requires that AFDC families be considered categorically eligible for food stamp benefits. Requires that allotment values for such families be determined under approved plans based upon household size and specified categories. Extends the work requirement for persons between the ages of 18 and 60 to persons between the ages of 16 and 60. Exempts persons between the ages of 16 and 18 under paternal control of another household member. Repeals the exemption for certain students from the work requirement. Makes mandatory (currently, at State option) that job search requirements commence at the time of application for food stamps. Grants State agencies the option of extending work requirements to caretakers of children between the ages of three and six, if adequate care is available for such children. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate guidelines to enable State agencies to design and operate community work experience programs. Makes participation in such programs a mandatory requirement for household members subject to food stamp work requirements. Repeals provisions for the workfare program. Revises State agency liability provisions to institute an error rate liability program under which State agencies shall be responsible for error rates in excess of three percent. Title III: Improving Administrative Procedures for the Food Stamp Program - Removes the income exclusion for student reimbursements. Makes certain aliens ineligible for the food stamp program. Allows the consideration of food stamp allotments in the determinations for Federal housing assistance. Allows the redemption of food stamp coupons at any bank or savings and loan association (currently, redemption is allowed only at certain federally insured institutions.) Changes the expedited coupon issuance procedure from providing such coupons not later than five days after application to providing such coupons not later than five working days after application. Allows State agencies to use sources other than the Social Security Administration and State unemployment agencies when making wage matching determinations. Requires State agencies to establish work registration and job search services to effectuate eligibility provisions of the food stamp program. Provides that, in the case of retailer/wholesaler disqualifications, stays of administrative action shall be considered under the applicable law governing such relief. Repeals the noncash benefit requirement for the Puerto Rico nutrition assistance program. Title IV: Administrative Funds for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to include the value of bonus commodities in determining the administrative cost ceiling for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program. Title V: Effective Date - Provides that the amendments made by this Act shall be effective on dates prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture unless specified otherwise.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Egg and Poultry Export Equity Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide U.S. poultry and egg producers with Commodity Credit Corporation-held corn in order to facilitate exports.
United States · United States Senate · 2 May 1983
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1983
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to treat elderly or disabled individuals living in certain types of group-living arrangements as individual households.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal specified tobacco programs, including: (1) price supports; (2) parity payments; (3) review and adjustment of quotas; and (4) marketing quotas. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit agricultural commodity assistance for tobacco. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Assistance Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from issuing any tobacco handling orders. Makes such provisions applicable to the 1984 and subsequent tobacco crops. Repeals provisions relating to compacts among States providing for the control or production of, or commerce in, tobacco within such States. Withdraws congressional consent to such compacts. Provides for sliding-scale based payments to low-income tobacco farmers (1982 adjusted gross income up to $24,000) who have terminated acreage allotments and marketing quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Dairy Production Act of 1983 - Title I: Dairy Compliance Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to eliminate the 50-cent milk producer assessments. Sets milk support prices for FY 1984 and FY 1985 at $13.10 per hundredweight for those farmers producing at or below their 1981-1982 marketing history levels. Sets forth provisions for farmers with less than full, or no marketing history levels. Establishes a reduced dairy compliance price (of up to $12.00, resulting in a blend price of not less than $12.10 per hundredweight) for over production as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. States that the difference between the price support received and the reduced dairy compliance price shall be remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation and credited to the Dairy Stabilization Settlement Fund to provided for a FY 1984 and FY 1985 paid diversion program. Requires farmers to present the Secretary with evidence of their 1981-1982 marketing history in order to participate in such diversion program, which may be adjusted to compensate for abnormally low production as a result of a disaster. Sets forth program provisions, including: (1) a $10 per hundredweight reduced production payment; (2) reductions as determined by the producer of between five and 30 percent of the base; (3) monthly partial payments; (4) limited transferability of a producer's marketing history; (5) penalties for failure to make the agreed reductions and remit the resultant funds, and for a knowing violation of a diversion contract; and (6) limited transferability of dairy cattle to other producers. Title II: Dairy Promotion Program - Requires the Secretary to publish (with notice and opportunity for public hearing) a proposed dairy research and promotion order within 30 days of receiving a request for such proposed order. Permits such proposal to be submitted by an individual or an organization certified under this Act. Makes such order effective 90 days after the public comment period. Authorizes the Secretary to amend such orders. Sets forth required terms of such orders, including the establishment of a National Dairy Promotion and Research Board made up of at least 36 milk producer members appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth organizational and operating provisions, including penalties for disclosure and other related violations of such orders. Funds such dairy promotion, research, and nutrition education program through a 15 cents per hundredweight assessment on commercially marketed milk. Permits a credit of up to ten cents per hundredweight for contributions to qualified State or regional dairy promotion or nutrition education programs. Requires an organization to be certified by the Secretary in order to represent milk producers. Authorizes the Secretary to develop such criteria, and makes the Secretary's eligibility decision final. Requires the Secretary, within the 60-day period preceding September 30, 1985, to conduct a producer referendum on such program's continuation (approval to be by a simple majority of those voting). States that after September 30, 1985, such referenda may be held when the Secretary deems appropriate, or when requested by ten percent of the affected producers. Reimburses the Secretary from assessments collected by the Board for related expenses. Permits cooperative association representation at such referenda, provided that the association notifies its members in advance and provides them an opportunity to vote as individuals. Provides petition and review in U.S. district court for a person subject to an order. Vests enforcement powers in U.S. district courts. Sets forth penalty provisions. Grants the Secretary investigative and related authority. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective October 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Agricultural Recovery Act of 1983 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1949 to eliminate the 50-cent milk producer assessments. Reduces milk support levels from $13.10 to $11.32 per hundredweight. Requires annual price adjustments at the beginning of each fiscal year. Title II: Wheat - Sets 1984 and 1985 wheat support levels at not more than $3.65 per bushel (presently not less than $3.55 per bushel). Sets 1983 through 1985 target prices at not more than $4.30 per bushel (presently not less than $4.30 for 1983, $4.45 for 1984, and $4.65 for 1985). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture for either the 1984 or 1985 crop, to: (1) limit wheat acreage; (2) maintain a set-aside program; or (3) maintain a land diversion program if the total supply of wheat on May 31 of the marketing year exceeds five percent of the total projected annual world utilization for that year. Directs the Secretary to announce such programs by August 15. Provides that the 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1983, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title III: Feed Grains - Sets 1984 and 1985 corn support levels at not more than $2.65 per bushel (presently not less than $2.65 per bushel). Sets 1983 through 1985 target prices at not more than $2.86 per bushel (presently not less than $2.86 for 1983, $3.03 for 1984, and $3.18 for 1985). Directs the Secretary, for either the 1984 or 1985 feed grain crop, to: (1) limit feed grain acreage; or (2) maintain set-aside or land-diversion programs if the total supply of feed grains on September 30 of the marketing year exceeds five percent of the total projected annual world utilization for that year. Directs the Secretary to announce such programs by November 15. Provides that the 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1983, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title IV: Upland Cotton - Sets 1984 and 1985 upland cotton support levels at not more than $.76 per pound. Prohibits producer storage payments and extended storage periods for the 1983 through 1985 crops. Provides that the 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1983, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title V: Rice - Sets 1984 and 1985 rice support levels at not more than $8.14 per hundredweight. Sets 1983 through 1985 target prices at not more than $11.40 per hundredweight (presently not less than $11.40 for 1983, $11.90 for 1984, and $12.40 for 1985). Prohibits producer storage payments and extended storage periods for the 1983 through 1985 crops. Provides that 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1983, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title VI: Advance Payments - Makes available to a producer at least 50 percent of any land diversion payment as soon as possible. Title VII: Payment In Kind Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to make land-diversion payments in kind for the adjusted acreage of the 1983 and 1984 crops of wheat, feed grain, cotton, and rice. Directs that such payment in kind program be in conjunction with a voluntary acreage limitation and paid land diversion program. Authorizes the Secretary to use any farm commodities at his disposal for the purpose of countering unfair trade practices of other countries. States that the provisions of the cargo preference laws shall not apply to the export sales of agricultural commodities. Title VIII: Agricultural Export Promotion - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary, for FY 1983 through 1985, to use farm commodities at his disposal, including dairy products, to counter unfair trade practices of other countries in third country export markets. Title IX: Export Transportation of Agricultural Commodities - Exempts from U.S. cargo preference laws Commodity Credit Corporation agricultural exports used to develop or expand U.S. foreign markets. Title X: Producer Reserve Program - Prohibits the Secretary from establishing any producer-owned reserve after the date of enactment of this Act. Allows a producer to withdraw any commodity placed in a reserve at any time that the market price for the commodity is more than 110 percent of its current price support loan rate. Title XI: Payment limitations - Repeals provisions of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 limiting payments under wheat, feed grain, cotton, and rice programs for the 1982 through 1985 crops. Title XII: Sunflowers - Prohibits sunflowers from being considered an eligible commodity for any loan, payment, or reserve program. Title XIII: Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary to use appropriated funds to make available no less than $1,000,000,000 for each of FY 1983 through 1985 to the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund. Title XIV: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective upon enactment, unless otherwise so provided.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Milk Producers Equity Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to eliminate the 50-cent milk producer assessments. Sets milk support levels at $13.10 per hundredweight. Provides that if quarterly Government milk and milk product purchases fall below four percent of commercial marketings the level shall be based on a sliding scale of between 90 percent and 60 percent of parity. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish individual production levels based on previous production. Prohibits transfers of such levels except to family members. Terminates such levels for nonproduction in two consecutive years. Requires the Secretary to establish a production reduction factor equal to the percentage of Government purchases to total commercial marketing. Makes an individual's production goal equal to his production level minus the reduction factor. Provides bonus payments for voluntary underproduction, and assessments for overproduction.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require an acreage reduction or set-aside program for each of the 1984 and 1985 wheat and feed grain crops if the previous year's carryover exceeds five percent of world usage.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
States that: (1) Congress opposes any attempt to curtail or eliminate the use of agricultural marketing orders; and (2) it is the sense of Congress that decisions regarding the timing or implementing of such marketing orders should be made exclusively by the Secretary of Agriculture in conjunction with the affected producers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
Shelterbelt Improvement Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a shelterbelt (vegetative soil erosion barrier) improvement program to reimburse (in cash or in-kind) producers for the costs of establishing or improving shelterbelts. Sets forth program provisions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Agricultural Productivity Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make an inventory of existing research and extension materials and recommend further areas of research regarding crop rotation, intercropping, biological pest control, and other related farming and soil conservation systems; and (2) make such information available to the public. Directs the Secretary to conduct research on 12 pilot farms (having specified mixes of livestock and crops) to examine the effects of the transition from practices relying on chemical fertilizers and pesticides and traditional soil tillage to systems relying on organic and biological pest control, crop rotation, and conservation tillage. Requires such farms to be chosen within 120 days. Directs the Secretary to make a parallel study of 12 farms which have been using such farm systems for at least five years. Sets the term of such projects at five years each. Sets forth on-farm study data, including soil profile changes, crop yields, energy and water use, and farm income. Directs the Secretary to make payments to the owner of a pilot farm if the Secretary determines such payments are justified. Stipulates that these payments may be made only during a project's last four years. Directs the Secretary to coordinate such pilot farms project with specified Federal and State agricultural services, colleges, and farmers. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees: (1) within 15 months regarding the information inventory; and (2) by April 1 of each year from 1985 through 1988 regarding the pilot farms, with a final project summary and recommendations by April 1, 1989. Provides for a five-year program of intercropping assistance under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Authorizes ceilinged appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Agricultural Productivity Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make an inventory of existing research and extension materials and recommend further areas of research regarding crop rotation, intercropping, biological pest control, and other related farming and soil conservation systems; and (2) make such information available to the public. Directs the Secretary to conduct research on 12 pilot farms (having specified mixes of livestock and crops) to examine the effects of the transition from practices relying on chemical fertilizers and pesticides and traditional soil tillage to systems relying on organic and biological pest control, crop rotation, and conservation tillage. Requires such farms to be chosen within 120 days. Directs the Secretary to make a parallel study of 12 farms which have been using such farm systems for at least five years. Sets the term of such projects at five years each. Sets forth on-farm study data, including soil profile changes, crop yields, energy and water use, and farm income. Directs the Secretary to make payments to the owner of a pilot farm if the Secretary determines such payments are justified. Stipulates that these payments may be made only during a project's last four years. Directs the Secretary to coordinate such pilot farms project with specified Federal and State agricultural services, colleges, and farmers. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees: (1) within 15 months regarding the information inventory; and (2) by April 1 of each year from 1985 through 1988 regarding the pilot farms, with a final project summary and recommendations by April 1, 1989. Provides for a five-year program of intercropping assistance under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Meat, Poultry and Egg Products Inspection Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Federal Meat Inspection Act Amendments - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to include as inspection factors to be considered by the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) the nature and frequency of an establishment's processing operations; (2) the adequacy and reliability of its product monitoring system; (3) its compliance history; and (4) other factors as the Secretary deems appropriate. Title II: Poultry Products Inspection Act Amendments - Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to set forth similar inspection factors as established in title I of this Act. Title III: Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments - Amends the Egg Products Inspection Act to set forth similar inspection factors as established in title I of this Act. Reduces the required number of annual egg shell surveillance visits from four to one. Title IV: Inspection Requirements - States that nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary to require any establishment to participate in a total plant quality-control program as a prerequisite to inspection under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the Egg Products Inspection Act. Title V: Effective Date - States that the provisions of this Act shall become effective on enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Amends the National Aquaculture Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Agricultural Recovery Act of 1983 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1949 to eliminate the 50-cent milk producer assessments. Reduces milk support levels from $13.10 to $11.32 per hundredweight. Requires annual price adjustments at the beginning of each fiscal year. Title II: Wheat - Sets 1984 and 1985 wheat support levels at not more than $3.65 per bushel (presently not less than $3.55 per bushel). Sets 1983 through 1985 target prices at not more than $4.30 per bushel (presently not less than $4.30 for 1983, $4.45 for 1984, and $4.65 for 1985). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, for either the 1984 or 1985 crop, to: (1) limit wheat acreage; (2) maintain a set-aside program; or (3) maintain a land diversion program if the total supply of wheat on May 31 of the marketing year exceeds five percent of the total projected annual world utilization for that year. Directs the Secretary to announce such programs by August 15. Provides that the 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1982, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title III: Feed Grains - Sets 1984 and 1985 corn support levels at not more than $2.65 per bushel (presently not less than $2.65 per bushel). Sets 1983 through 1985 target prices at not more than $2.86 per bushel (presently not less than $2.86 for 1983, $3.03 for 1984, and $3.18 for 1985). Directs the Secretary, for either the 1984 or 1985 feed grain crop, to: (1) limit feed grain acreage; or (2) maintain set-aside or land-diversion programs if the total supply of feed grains on September 30 of the marketing year exceeds five percent of the total projected annual world utilization for that year. Directs the Secretary to announce such programs by November 15. Provides that the 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1982, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title IV: Upland Cotton - Sets 1984 and 1985 upland cotton support levels at not more than $0.76 per pound. Prohibits producer storage payments and extended storage periods for the 1983 through 1985 crops. Provides that the 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1982, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title V: Rice - Sets 1984 and 1985 rice support levels at not more than $8.14 per hundredweight. Sets 1983 through 1985 target prices at not more than $11.40 per hundredweight (presently not less than $11.40 for 1983, $11.90 for 1984, and $12.40 for 1985). Prohibits producer storage payments and extended storage periods for the 1983 thorough 1985 crops. Provides that 1984 and 1985 farm acreage bases shall be the same as for 1982, with certain adjustments as necessary. Title VI: Advance Payments - Makes available to a producer at least 50 percent of any land diversion payment as soon as possible. Title VII: Payment In Kind Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to make land-diversion payments in kind for the adjusted acreage of the 1983 and 1984 crops of wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice. Directs that such payment in kind program be in conjunction with a voluntary acreage limitation and paid land-diversion program. Authorizes the Secretary to use any farm commodities at his disposal for the purpose of countering unfair trade practices of other countries. States that the provisions of the cargo preference laws shall not apply to the export sales of agricultural commodities. Title VIII: Farmer-Owned Reserve - Prohibits the Secretary from establishing or recognizing any farmer-owned reserve after the date of enactment of this Act. Allows a producer to withdraw any commodity placed in a reserve at any time that the market price for the commodity is more than 110 percent of its current price support loan rate. Title IX: Payment Limitations - Repeals provisions of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 limiting payments under wheat, feed grain, cotton, and rice programs for the 1982 thorough 1985 crops. Title X: Sunflowers - Prohibits sunflowers from being considered an eligible commodity for any loan, payment, or reserve program. Title XI: Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary to use appropriated funds to make available no less than $1,000,000,000 for each of FY 1983 through 1985 to the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require that producers participating in the 1984 payment-in-kind program have the option to receive their payments in cash.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the Domestic International Sales Corporation (DISC) rules to treat each member of an agricultural cooperative association as a producer of export property to the extent of his ratable share of fungible products exported by such an association.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 for the National Aquaculture Act of 1980. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 for the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975. Extends the fisheries loan fund under the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 for an additional year.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize marketing research and promotion projects, including paid advertising, for filberts.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to increase from seven to 12 the number of members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Requires the President in selecting the members of the Board to: (1) appoint at least one member each to represent the respective interests of small business, organized labor, agriculture, and small financial institutions; and (2) have due regard for a fair representation of the financial, industrial, and commercial interests of the country in appointing the other members of the Board. Directs the President, upon the expiration of the term of any appointive Board member, to fix the successor's term at not to exceed 12 years. Prescribes the manner of staggering term expirations. Directs the President, during 1984, to appoint five additional members to the Board for specified terms. Requires such members to be representatives of small business, organized labor, agricultural interests, and small financial institutions. Declares that the person appointed to replace the number of the Board whose term expires in 1984 shall be appointed for a term of 11 years.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should delay implementing milk producer assessments until at least July 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to use surplus agricultural commodities to make supplemental payments-in-kind (up to a $25,000 equivalent) to producers who divert acreage from the production of agricultural commodities under a basic payment-in-kind program and devote such acreage to at least five years of long-term conservation uses.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1983
Dairy Production Act of 1983 - Title I: Dairy Compliance Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to eliminate the scheduled 50-cent milk assessments. Sets milk support levels at $13.10 per hundredweight for FY 1984 through FY 1985 for those farmers producing at or below their 1981-1982 marketing history levels. Sets forth provisions for farmers with less than full, or no 1981-1982 production levels. Establishes a reduced dairy compliance price (of up to $12.00, resulting in a blend price of not less than $12.10 per hundredweight) for overproduction as determined annually by the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides that funds represented by such reduced payments shall be remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation and credited to the Dairy Stabilization Settlement Fund to be used to: (1) keep down program costs; and (2) make diversion payments ($10.00 per hundredwight) to farmers reducing production below their marketing histories. Prohibits the transfer of marketing histories. Requires farmers to get marketing history certifications from their county committees. Provides civil penalties for program violations. Title II: Dairy Promotion Program - Provides for the creation of a National Dairy Promotion and Research Board made up of milk producers appointed by the Secretary from nominations provided by certified (as provided for in this Act) dairy organizations. Empowers such Board to budget, develop, and administer dairy promotion and nutrition programs. Funds such program through mandatory 15-cent per hundredweight producer assessments. Terminates such program after its initial September 30, 1985 period unless approved by 50 percent by a producer referendum. Provides civil penalties for program violations. Authorizes appropriations. Stipulates that appropriated funds shall not be used to cover Board expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1983
Directs the President to limit milk protein product imports through 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1983
Designates October 16, 1983, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1983
Agricultural Export Expansion Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and carry out a program under which agricultural commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation are made available for export, without charge, to domestic exporters, domestic processors (for export), and foreign purchasers. Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that equal treatment is provided to domestic exporters and foreign purchasers and to domestic processors in cases where the importation of a manufactured product made from agricultural commodities, made available for export under this Act, would place domestic processors of such commodity at a competitive disadvantage; (2) give priority among foreign purchasers to purchasers who have purchased U.S. agricultural commodities in the past and who continue to do so in increased quanities; (3) ensure that agricultural commodities, made available for export under this Act, are used to encourage increased use of such commodities and to avoid unnecessary market displacement of domestic agricultural commodities; and (4) take reasonable precautions to prevent resale, transshipment or any use of such commodities other than domestic use in the importing country. Authorizes the Secretary to make supplemental distributions of commodities to a foreign purchaser who uses funds realized from the sale of commodities made available under this Act to construct or rehabilitate facilities in the importing country for specified purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to determine the intervals and quantities of such supplemental distributions. Requires the Secretary to carry out such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to include specified agricultural commodities (currently only dairy products) acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as donations for distributions to needy persons outside the United States. Provides for direct distribution, sale or barter of such commodities. Requires the proceeds realized from the sale or barter of such commodities to be used exclusively for assistance to needy persons. Prohibits the use of such proceeds to defray operating costs or overhead expenses. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to authorize the President to use agricultural commodities and products acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation to increase the level of agricultural exports under the Food for Development Program and under the program for the sale of agricultural commodities for foreign currencies and long-term dollar-credit. Directs the Secretary, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to sell for export a specified amount of dairy products in each of FY 1983 through 1985. Requires the Secretary to make semiannual reports to the appropriate congressional committees on such sales. Authorizes the Secretary to make available to U.S. poulty and egg producers supplies of corn owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the U.S. Trade Representative, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the use of predatory export subsidies by foreign nations competing with the United States for world markets in connection with agricultural commodities. Requires the President to submit a written report to Congress by June 1, 1983, describing the negotiation of a long-term grain sales agreement with the U.S.S.R., providing a higher minimum purchase requirement than the present agreement. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit a report to Congress describing the growth of and prospects for bilateral agricultural trade agreements and the potential impact of such agreements on trade.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to furnish agricultural commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation through price support operations for famine relief.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Special Cropland Conservation Act - Authorizes a special soil and water conservation program (payments to be made to participants in cash or in kind) on erosion-prone land. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to publish implementing regulations in the Federal Register within 60 days.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of July 24 through July 31, 1983, as National Animal Agriculture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of July 24 through July 31, 1983, as National Animal Agriculture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1983
Designates October 16, 1983, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to provide that no provisions of law requiring the transportation of U.S. agricultural commodities in U.S.-flag vessels shall apply to agricultural commodities, exported by or through the Commodity Credit Corporation, if such exports are covered by commercial credit guarantees that are blended with direct interest-free credit from the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit using Corporation funds to pay higher ocean freight charges for agricultural commodity exports to the extent that the higher charges are the result of a requirement that such commodities be transported in U.S.-flag vessels. Requires the Maritime Administration to pay the ocean freight charges for such exports to the extent that the charges are higher because of a requirement that the commodities be transported in U.S.-flag vessels. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year following FY 1983 for the payment of such charges by the Maritime Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to repeal the 50-cent milk producer assessment provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to eliminate specified margarine labeling and restaurant notice requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
Dairy Production Act of 1983 - Title I: Dairy Compliance Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to eliminate the scheduled 50-cent milk assessments. Sets milk support levels at $13.10 per hundredweight for FY 1984 through FY 1985 for those farmers producing at or below their 1981-1982 marketing history levels. Sets forth provisions for farmers with less than full, or no 1981-1982 production levels. Establishes a reduced dairy compliance price (of up to $12.00, resulting in a blend price of not less than $12.10 per hundredweight) for overproduction as determined annually by the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides that the difference between the price support received and the reduced dairy compliance price shall be remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation and credited to the Dairy Stabilization Settlement Fund to be used to: (1) reduce dairy program costs; and (2) make diversion payments ($10.00 per hundredweight) to farmers reducing production below their 1981-1982 marketing histories. Prohibits the transfer of marketing histories. Requires farmers to get marketing history certifications from their county committees. Provides civil penalties for program violations. Title II: Dairy Promotion Program - Provides for the creation of a National Dairy Promotion and Research Board made up of milk producers appointed by the Secretary from nominations provided by certified dairy organizations. Empowers such Board to budget, develop, and administer dairy promotion and nutrition programs. Funds such program through mandatory 15-cent per hundredweight producer assessments. Terminates such program after its initial September 30, 1985, period unless its continuation is approved by at least 50 percent of the voters in a producer referendum. Provides civil penalties for program violations. Authorizes appropriations. Stipulates that appropriated funds shall not be used to cover Board expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1983
Milk Program Improvement Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to give milk producers who reduce production to 1980 levels a 95 percent refund (payments to be made in April and October) of two scheduled 50-cent assessments. Establishes in the Treasury a Milk Promotion Fund (to be terminated by September 30, 1986) to support dairy research and promotion activities. Provides money for such Fund from the remaining five percent of the milk producer assessments. Requires producer approval by referendum (by May 31, 1983) before moneys may be deposited in such Fund. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, beginning July 1, 1983, and ending September 30, 1985, to enter into agreements with, or approve agreements among, milk and dairy producer associations to promote milk and dairy sales. States that program costs shall be covered by moneys from the Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1983
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to repeal authority for making: (1) recreation loans; and (2) limited resource ownership and operating loans. Increases ownership loan limits on insured loans from $200,000 to $300,000, and on guaranteed loans from $300,000 to $400,000. Repeals authority for the use of operating loans for nonagricultural purposes. Increases operating loan limits on insured loans from $100,000 to $150,000, and on guaranteed loans from $200,000 to $300,000. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to exercise discretion in making disaster emergency farm loans available in areas where Federal crop insurance is generally available. Allows such loans where crop insurance indemnity payments are insufficient to alleviate the economic emergency. Increases the amount of debt settlement authority (from $25,000 to $50,000) that the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) may delegate to agency field offices. Repeals the requirement that FmHA claims must be held at least five years before they can be adjusted. Authorizes county committees to certify operating loan applicants on a crop year basis. Extends to all States and territories (presently only applies in Hawaii) specified ownership loan eligibility for lands held under trust or long-term lease. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for farm real estate and ownership, operating, emergency, water and waste disposal, and community facility loans.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to reimburse farmers (in cash or in kind) for the costs of applying conservation practices to acreage diverted under an acreage limitation program for the 1982 through 1985 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, rice, and soybeans.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1983
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay a rate for the storage of grain on farms which is no less than the rate the Corporation pays for storage of grain in commercial storage facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1983
Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate and carry out an export expansion program under which commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) are tendered at no cost to U.S. exporters, processors, and foreign purchasers. Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that equal treatment is provided to domestic and foreign purchasers and users where the importation of a manufactured product made from agricultural commodities, made available for export under this Act, would place domestic users of such commodities at a competitive disadvantage; (2) ensure that such agricultural commodities are used to encourage increased use of U.S. commodities and to avoid unnecessary market displacement of domestic agricultural commodities; and (3) take reasonable precautions to prevent the resale, transshipment, or any use of such commodities for other than domestic use in the importing country. Requires the Secretary to carry out this program through the CCC.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1983
Appropriates funds for the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1983
Agricultural Export Equity and Market Expansion Act of 1983 - Title I: Congressional Findings and Policy - Sets forth congressional findings and declarations of policy concerning the export of U.S. agricultural commodities. Title II: Agricultural Export Promotion and Demand Enhancement - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to sell for export, in FY 1983 through 1985 not less than 150,000 metric tons per year of dairy products owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation (the Corporation). Requires such sales to be made under existing authorities available to the Secretary or the Corporation. Directs the Secretary to submit semiannual reports on the status of such sales to specified congressional committees. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to require the Secretary to use one-half of the proceeds from the sale of such dairy products each year for export assistance for U.S. agricultural commodities and products (in order to equalize the price and credit subsidies of foreign nations on their agricultural exports). Requires the use of specified Corporation funds for export assistance. Requires the Secretary to carry out this program through the Corporation. Authorizes the Secretary to formulate and carry out a program under which agricultural commodities and products acquired by the Corporation are made available for export without charge to U.S. exporters and users and foreign purchasers in order to promote export markets for such commodities and products. Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that equal treatment is provided to domestic and foreign purchasers and users in cases where the importation of a manufactured product made from Corporation stocks, made available for export under this Act, would place domestic users of such commodity at a competitive disadvantage; (2) consider all interested foreign purchasers for participation, giving priority to those who have purchased U.S. agricultural commodities in the past and who continue to do so in increased quantities; (3) ensure that Corporation stocks made available for export under this Act be used to encourage increased use of such commodities and to avoid unnecessary market displacement of domestic agricultural commodities; and (4) take reasonable precautions to prevent resale, transshipment, or any use of such stocks other than domestic use in the importing country. Provides for supplemental distributions to foreign purchasers who use funds realized from the sale of commodities made available for export under this Act to construct or rehabilitate facilities in the importing country for specified purposes. Requires the Secretary to determine the intervals and amounts of such supplemental distributions. Requires the Secretary to carry out this program through the Corporation. Authorizes the use of up to 1,500,000 metric tons of wheat in the food security wheat reserve for the development, maintenance, and expansion of export markets under this Act. Requires the Secretary to replenish the wheat reserve, if so used, before October 1, 1984. Amends the Agricultural and Food Act of 1981 to expand export market development funding for U.S. agricultural commodities and for value-added farm products and processed foods at specified levels. States that U.S. cargo preference laws shall not apply to certain export promotion activities of the Corporation with respect to agricultural commodities and products. Title III: Foreign Donations of Commodity Credit Corporation Stocks and Amendments to Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1947 to include other agricultural commodities and products (currently only dairy products) acquired by the Corporation as donations for distribution to needy persons outside the United States. Provides for the direct distribution, barter, or sale of such commodities. Requires the proceeds realized from the sale or barter of such commodities to be used exclusively for assistance to needy persons. Prohibits the use of such proceeds to defray operating or overhead expenses. Requires such donations to be coordinated with other U.S. foreign assistance through a specified mechanism. Amends the Agriculture Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the President to consider distributing commodities for famine relief in processed and protein fortified form. Requires the President to take all feasible steps to ensure that a specified tonnage of such commodities be in the form of processed and protein-fortified products. Requires the President to consider the nutritional and developmental objectives established by nonprofit volunteer agencies authorized to distribute food commodities under such Act. Requires that consideration be given to U.S. nonprofit volunteer agencies and cooperatives in developing and carrying out food for development programs. Sets forth an aggregate value target for the assistance of agricultural and rural development projects under such Act. Requires that agreements entered into under such Act provide that commodities or funds generated from the sale of such commodities in participating countries be used at the farm and village level in famine-prone countries, especially countries in sub-Saharan Africa, to establish certain rural projects. Title IV: Agricultural Commodity Export Sales and Use - Authorizes the sale of extra long staple cotton held by the Corporation at such prices determined by the Secretary to maintain and expand export and domestic markets for such cotton. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take action to initiate negotiations with the U.S.S.R. to conclude a long-term grain sales agreement. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Corporation to accept strategic and critical materials produced abroad in exchange for agricultural commodities acquired by the Corporation. Requires the Secretary to follow certain procedures in effecting such exchanges. Sets forth provisions concerning materials received in such exchanges. Requires the Corporation to accept and transfer without charge to the Energy Department petroleum products produced abroad in exchange for agricultural commodities if the volume of petroleum products in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is less than a specified amount. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the President to use not less than 20 percent of funds appropriated for economic support programs to purchase domestic agricultural commodites, including one-half of such amount to purchase processed or value-added commodity products. Title V: Congressional Reports - Requires the Secretary to submit a report to specified congressional committees, by July 1, 1983, on the use of export subsidies by foreign nations. Specifies the requirements of such report. Requires the President to submit a written report to Congress by March 31, 1983, describing the negotiation of a long-term grain sales agreement with the U.S.S.R., providing a higher minimum purchase requirement than the present agreement. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit a report to Congress describing the growth of and prospects for bilateral agricultural trade agreements and the potential impact of such agreements on trade. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit a report to Congress describing the status of Commodity Credit Corporation barter or exchange of commodities programs. Requires the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress describing all programs administered by the Secretary under which surplus agricultural commodities could be distributed.