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United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1983
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to subject imported fresh ginger root to the restrictions applicable to domestic ginger.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1983
Milk Stabilization Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce FY 1984 and 1985 minimum milk price supports from 75 to 70 percent of parity. States that for FY 1984 and 1985 the parity price of milk shall be determined as of October 1 of each such marketing year. Limits annual milk purchases to 3,500,000,000 pounds for each marketing year during FY 1984 and 1985. Sets forth: (1) various individual marketing bases; and (2) base assignment priorities. Allows an applicant to appeal a State committee's marketing base decision only to the Secretary of Agriculture. Requires the Secretary to determine a production percentage reduction if estimated milk production exceeds market requirements and Government purchases. Establishes two assessment rates (50% and 75%) for excess production. Makes any person producing milk commercially in the United States liable for such assessments. Sets forth collection and enforcement provisions. Establishes in the Treasury a Dairy Product Stabilization Fund. Terminates such Fund on February 1, 1986, (remaining funds to be transferred to the Commodity Credit Corporation). Authorizes domestic and foreign surplus dairy donations for five years.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the nonrecognition of gain from the sale of farmland development rights to a State, political subdivision, or tax-exempt organization under a farmland preservation program, provided that the taxpayer purchases farming property within 18 months before or after the date of such sale. Limits such nonrecognition to the extent that the proceeds from the sale of the farmland development rights exceed the taxpayer's purchase price for the farming property. Defines "farmland development rights" as the right of the owner of real property to use that property for purposes other than farming. Requires recapture of the amount of gain not recognized if the taxpayer sells or uses the farming property for purposes other than farming. Provides for a one-time exclusion of gain from the sale of farmland development rights by individuals who have attained age 55. Allows the owner of farmland development rights to claim a charitable contribution income tax deduction for the amount of gain foregone as a result of a sale of such rights to a State, political subdivision, or tax-exempt organization under a farmland preservation program. Sets forth rules for the allocation of basis on the sale of farmland development rights. Prescribes criteria for determining whether the contribution of farmland development rights results in a significant public benefit in a particular case.
United States · United States Congress · 14 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 · 11 March 1983
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act and other Federal law to include fish and fish products within the meaning of agricultural commodities receiving marketing services.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the 1983 through 1985 sugarcane and sugar beet price support loan rates by three cents per pound.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1983
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to set the interest rate for water and waste disposal facility loans at: (1) not more than five percent in areas where the median family income is below 80 percent of the statewide nonmetropolitan median family income; and (2) not more than seven percent in areas where such income level is between 80 and 100 percent of the statewide nonmetropolitan median family income. Amends business and industry loan provisions to: (1) raise an applicant's equity requirement from ten to 20 percent; (2) give priority to areas of economic distress; (3) decrease the maximum Federal loan guarantee from 90 to 80 percent; and (4) raise the loss threshold from ten to 20 percent. Provides for the recapture of low-income farm ownership loans when a borrower sells such property. States that these loans constitute a secured debt. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to review the financial status of an applicant prior to approving an operating loan if the applicant has received such loans in each of the previous five years. Authorizes the Secretary to require an emergency or operating loan applicant to have insurance on the crops used as substantial security for such loan. Permits borrowers of farm ownership, operating, or emergency loans, or loans under the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to use mineral (including oil and gas) rights leasing proceeds (from land used as security for such loans) to make current loan payments. Establishes FY 1984 through 1986 lending limits under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund for real estate loans, farm ownership loans, water development and conservation loans, operating loans, and emergency loans. Allocates specified amounts for insured and guaranteed loans. Authorizes fund transfers. Establishes FY 1984 through 1986 lending limits under the Rural Development Insurance Fund for water and waste disposal loans and for community facility loans. Reserves at least 15 percent of the farm ownership and operating loans for low-income, limited-resource applicants. Directs the Secretary to conduct studies and report to the appropriate congressional committees within 120 days concerning: (1) marketing techniques of Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) borrowers; (2) individual on-site rural water and waste treatment; and (3) variable interest rates for FmHA loans.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Amends Federal law to rename the Department of Agriculture the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Domestic Commodity Distribution and Food Assistance Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to distribute surplus Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) stocks to eligible agencies (as defined in this Act). Requires the CCC to pay for commodity processing with funds or with in-kind payments to the processor. Requires the Secretary to publish an annual announcement of such anticipated surplus stocks. Provides that up to 500,000 metric tons of wheat available under the Food Security and Wheat Reserve Act of 1980 may be used for domestic purposes. Requires the CCC to use any additional reserves to replenish such stocks by September 30, 1985. Provides for State distribution of commodities under this Act. States that if a State agency cannot meet the requests for a given commodity such agency shall give special consideration to organizations that serve low-income and unemployed persons. Provides administrative money to the States to run such program. Prohibits States from charging recipient agencies for related program costs. Requires States to pay the distribution costs of organizations serving low-income and unemployed persons. Requires the Secretary and the States to work with private companies and recipient agencies to make it easier for recipients to process such commodities into end use products. Directs the Secretary to use moneys saved on storage and spoilage to process commodities into food products for agencies serving low-income and unemployed persons. Exempts such commodity distributions from specified food stamp prohibitions.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 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.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) develop and implement a national program to expand U.S. exports of agricultural commodities; and (2) submit to the Congress a report containing a description of such program, including proposed Executive actions and legislative recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1983
Agricultural Land Diversion Tax Treatment Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit farmers who participate in a payment-in-kind program to treat commodities received under such program as income in the year of sale rather than in the year of receipt. Treats such income as farm income for all tax purposes including the Social Security Act. Provides that farm land diverted from production under a qualified diversion program shall be treated as used in a farming business for purposes of the estate tax special use valuation. Defines "qualified diversion program." Specifies that farmers' cooperatives shall not forfeit tax- exempt status by the marketing of commodities received under a payment-in-kind program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Makes crops grown on highly erodible land (as defined by this Act) that has not been farmed during the past ten years ineligible for specified agricultural assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to restore the acreage base standards set by the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 for the 1983 crops of wheat, feed grains, and rice.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Payment-in-Kind Amendments Act of 1983 - Modifies the payment-in-kind program to increase payments to qualifying double-cropping farmers and base quantity adjustments used to compensate quality variations on current year projected prices. Defines "double-cropping" as harvesting two crops from the same acreage during different seasons of the same year. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to review such price projections and reimburse farmers when they exceed actual prices.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
National Dairy Equity Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to reduce milk support prices from $13.10 to $12.10 per hundredweight through the end of FY 1983. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to reduce FY 1984 and FY 1985 support prices to $11.60 per hundredweight if he determines, after consulting the dairy industry, that FY 1984 and FY 1985 milk purchases will exceed FY 1983 and FY 1984 purchases, respectively. Provides for 50-cent increases (up to $12.60) if purchase levels fall below seven billion and five billion pounds respectively. Eliminates the two 50-cent milk producer assessments. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should use his authority to reduce dairy surpluses.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Requires the containers of imported preserved mushrooms to indicate in English the country in which the mushrooms were grown in order to comply with labeling laws relating to imports.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require foods containing imported mushrooms to bear labeling that identifies the country in which the mushrooms were grown.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 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 · 3 March 1983
Grain Warehouse Insolvency Payment-In-Kind Act of 1983 - Permits farmers who have suffered a loss as a result of a grain warehouse insolvency (as of January 1, 1978) to receive payment-in-kind commodities as compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
National Dairy Equity Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to reduce milk support prices from $13.10 to $12.10 per hundredweight through the end of FY 1983. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to reduce FY 1984 and FY 1985 support prices to $11.60 per hundredweight if it is determined, after consulting the dairy industry, that FY 1984 and FY 1985 milk purchases will exceed FY 1983 and FY 1984 purchases respectively. Provides for 50-cent increases (up to $12.60) if purchase levels fall below seven billion and five billion pounds respectively. Eliminates the two 50-cent milk producer assessments. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should use his authority to reduce dairy surpluses.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Agricultural Commodities Export Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to sell U.S. farm products competitively on the world market. Defers the fifty-cent per hundredweight milk charge unless surplus U.S. dairy products are sold competitively on the world market. Eliminates 1983 through 1985 land diversion payment limitations. Provides for the replacement of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) officers and directors for failure to sell commodities competitively on the world market. Repeals CCC charter restrictions on domestic sales.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Makes 1983 soybean producers eligible for compensation, in the case of prevented plantings or failure to harvest normal crop acreage because of a natural disaster, at rates comparable to those received by producers of feed grains and wheat under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to permit distribution in interstate commerce of certain State-inspected meat and poultry products. Requires a State to use official marks on meat and poultry products inspected under State law. Authorizes meat and poultry processing establishments to transfer from State to Federal inspection or vice versa on October 1 of each year upon the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. Requires a State-inspected products which are distributed in interstate commerce to meet Federal marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredient requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Agricultural Marketing Incentive Act of 1983 - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize the donation of Commodity Credit Corporation surpluses to U.S. exporters, processors, and foreign purchasers in order to expand U.S. agricultural exports.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an insurance program to protect persons who store their wheat, soybeans, or feed grains in approved public warehouses from warehouse insolvencies. Limits individual insured amounts to $100,000. Directs the Secretary to establish uniform premium rates. Authorizes a Public Warehouse Insurance Fund to be established in the Treasury to pay such insurance and related administrative costs. Requires insurance claims to be paid within 30 days of a warehouse's closing.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Dairy Price Support Amendments Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce the dairy price support level from $13.10 per hundredweight to $12.60 per hundredweight. Repeals the 50-cent milk producer assessment provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Removes all Commodity Credit Corporation export restrictions. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to increase price supports to more nearly reflect production costs.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to determine and announce the estimated agricultural financial losses of any proposed agricultural embargo before such embargo may be declared. Authorizes the payment of compensation from the Treasury or the Commodity Credit Corporation for any such losses. States that any such expenditures shall not be considered part of the agricultural price support program but rather related to international or defense functions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Memorializes the President and the Secretary of Agriculture to declare a moratorium on farm loan repayments and foreclosures.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, to study the effects of interbasin water transfers on agriculture and agricultural productivity. Requires a report within 18 months. Prohibits a State from selling or transferring interstate surface or ground waters located in that State for use outside such State unless: (1) there is a related interstate compact; and (2) all the signatory States agree to such sale or transfer.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1983
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain tracts of land known as David C. Porter Park and Show Low Municipal Airport to the city of Show Low, Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to exclude Hawaii and Alaska from the 50-cent milk producer assessment.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to limit the Secretary of Agriculture's 50-cent milk assessment authority to the States, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia (thus prohibiting such authority in other territories and possessions of the United States).
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer specified land, without consideration, to the town of Payson, Arizona. Provides that title shall revert to the United States under specified conditions. Authorizes the Northern Gila County Historical Society to administer such property.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Grain Storage Compensation Act of 1983 - Permits farmers who have suffered a loss as a result of a grain warehouse insolvency (from December 1, 1979 through the date of enactment of this Act) to receive surplus commodities as compensation. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to publish notice of this program in the Federal Register within 60 days. Requires a farmer to provide evidence of loss before such compensation may be given. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Federal Meat and Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to permit distribution in interstate commerce of certain State-inspected meat and poultry products. Requires States to use official marks on meat and poultry products inspected under State law. Authorizes meat and poultry processing establishments to transfer from State to Federal inspection or vice versa on October 1 of each year upon the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. Requires State-inspected products which are distributed in interstate commerce to meet Federal marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredient requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who receive agricultural commodities under a Federal payment-in-kind program to elect to treat such commodities as income at the time of sale or exchange rather than at the time of receipt. Treats such commodities as commodities produced on acreage diverted from agricultural use for purposes of the estate tax valuation of farm property.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Agricultural Export, Equity Act of 1983 - 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 agricultural commodities, 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 agricultural commodities, 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 commodities other than domestic use in the importing country. Provides for bonus 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 bonus distributions. Requires the Secretary to carry out this program through the Corporation. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1947 to include other agricultural commodities and products (currently only dairy products), acquired by the Corporation, as donations for distributions 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. 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.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest in specified land in the Manchester State Forest to the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry. Conditions such release upon the Commission's agreement to specified conditions. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey specified Federal mineral interests to the Commission. Provides guidelines for the sale and appraisal of such mineral interests.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Emergency Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1983- Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 1984 and 1985 wheat loan rates at not less than $4.22 per bushel. Sets target prices for 1984 and 1985 at $4.60 per bushel and $4.75 per bushel, respectively. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a minimum 30 percent acreage reduction program (combined acreage limitation and land diversion) for 1984. Sets payment at not less than $3.25 per bushel, or at the farmer's option, payment in kind according to a formula including at least 80 percent of the program payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish a 1985 combined acreage reduction program if estimated 1985 supplies exceed 125 percent of estimated domestic and export needs. Makes payments on the same basis as 1984. Provides that the acreage base for 1984 and 1985 shall be the average of two of three preceding years, as chosen by the farmer. Requires payment adjustments to be made to double cropping farmers whose second crop is reduced because of program participation. Permits hay and grazing on the reduced acreage. Requires the Secretary to provide disaster assistance for prevented plantings. Title II: Feed Grains - Sets 1984 and 1985 feed grain loan rates at not less than $2.84 per bushel. Sets 1984 and 1985 target prices at $3.08 per bushel and $3.23 per bushel, respectively. Establishes a minimum 20 percent combined acreage reduction program for 1984. Sets payment at not less than $2.00 per bushel, or at the farmer's option, payment in kind according to a formula including at least 80 percent of the program payment yield. Sets forth similar provisions regarding 1985 acreage reductions, acreage bases, double cropping adjustments, grazing, and disaster payments as provided in title I of this Act. Includes corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats in the definition of "feed grains." Title III: Upland Cotton - Sets 1984 and 1985 upland cotton loan rates at not less than 70 cents per pound. Sets 1984 and 1985 target prices at 83 cents per pound and 88 cents per pound, respectively. Establishes a minimum 20 percent combined acreage reduction program for 1984. Sets payment at not less than 30 cents per pound, or at the farmer's option, payment in kind according to a formula including at least 80 percent of the program payment yield. Sets forth similar provisions regarding 1985 acreage reductions, acreage bases, double cropping adjustments, grazing, and disaster payments as provided in title I of this Act. Title IV: Rice - Sets 1984 and 1985 rice loan rates at not less than $8.60 per hundredweight. Sets 1984 and 1985 target prices at $11.94 per hundredweight and $12.43 per hundredweight, respectively. Establishes a minimum 20 percent combined acreage reduction program for 1984. Sets payment at not less than $3.00 per hundredweight, or at the farmer's option, payment in kind according to a formula including at least 80 percent of the program payment yield. Sets forth similar provisions regarding 1985 acreage reductions, acreage bases, double cropping adjustments, grazing, and disaster payments as provided in title I of this Act. Title V: Soybeans - Sets 1984 and 1985 soybean loan rates at not less than $5.40 per bushel. Title VI: Special Payment-In-Kind Land Diversion Program - Provides that if a payment-in-kind land diversion program is in effect, the Secretary shall: (1) ensure that the value of the particular commodity is not less than 90 percent of the basic county loan rate for that commodity; and (2) make payments based on at least 80 percent of the program payment yield. Title VII: Advance Payments - Requires the Secretary to make advance payments to farmers participating in an acreage reduction program. Title VIII: Payment Limitation - Excludes diversion payments from the $50,000 payment limitation for the 1983 through 1985 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. Title IX: Early Announcement of Programs - Advances acreage and acreage reduction programs announcement dates for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. Title X: Special Soil and Water Conservation Program - 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 to publish implementing regulations in the Federal Register within 60 days. Title XI: Agricultural Export Market Expansion - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize a program of agricultural export expansion through the use of donated (to U.S. exporters and processors) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) stocks. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to expand overseas donations of CCC stocks by: (1) including non-dairy commodities among such donation; and (2) using CCC stocks under titles I and II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480). Authorizes the use of up to 2,000,000 metric tons of wheat for FY 1983 and FY 1984 from the Food Security Wheat Reserve for such purposes. Requires replenishment of such Reserve by the end of FY 1984. Title XII: Agricultural Credit - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit family farmers to request economic hardship loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals through FY 1983. Requires a showing of: (1) good management; (2) temporary inability to repay because of circumstances beyond one's control; and (3) reasonable chance of repayment. Provides for loan consolidation and rescheduling at the end of such deferral period. Requires the Secretary to provide notification to Farmers Home Administration borrowers regarding such deferral and rescheduling programs. Prohibits deferred or rescheduled loan interest rates in excess of the original interest rates. Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to extend program authority through FY 1984. Provides that specified authorizations shall be in addition to other guaranteed economic emergency loan authorizations under the Act of December 18, 1982 (P.L. 97-370). Requires (currently only authorizes) the Secretary to make such loans available. Title XIII: Producer Reserve Program for Wheat and Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require that the reserve loan be at least five percent greater than the basic loan rate for any commodity. Requires the Secretary to allow for the entry of a commodity under the reserve program no later than the beginning of its marketing year if a reserve program is in effect for any of the 1983 through 1985 years.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Emergency Food Assistance and Commodity Distribution Act of 1983 - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to donate (after first providing for domestic and foreign requirements) excess Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) commodities to organizations running emergency and nonemergency feeding programs through FY 1986. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual two-year estimate of available commodities (the first one to be published by October 1, 1983). Provides for State distribution of such commodities. Declares that the Secretary shall distribute commodities directly in those States where State agencies are prohibited from so doing. Gives priority to emergency organizations. Directs the CCC to pay initial processing and packaging costs. Directs the CCC to pay up to $65,000,000 of State agency program expenses. Gives priority to emergency organizations. Prohibits States from charging recipient agencies for any program costs. Directs the CCC to encourage commodity use by distributing commodities to private companies for processing into food products for recipient agencies. States that such agencies shall bear processing costs, except that the CCC shall make up to $10,000,000 available annually to cover emergency organization expenses. Permits distributions under this Act to be carried out in areas where the food stamp plan is operating. Requires commodity distribution to begin: (1) within 30 days to emergency recipients; and (2) within 90 days to other recipients. Terminates the authority under this Act at the end of FY 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit farmers who participate in a Federal payment-in-kind program to elect to treat commodities they receive as income in the year of receipt or the year of sale. Permits farmers to elect a deferral of the income resulting from the cancellation of Commodity Credit Corporation loans. Provides that farmers participating in a payment-in-kind program do not forfeit eligibility for the special use valuation provisions for farm property.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Modified Dairy Price Support Program - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to repeal the 50-cent milk producer assessments. Decreases milk price supports from $13.10 per hundredweight to $12.10 per hundredweight for the period from April 1, 1983 through September 30, 1984. Permits increases of up to $1 if Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) purchases fall below specified levels. Bases milk supports on a parity formula (sliding scale of 61 to 83 percent of parity based on CCC purchase estimates) as of October 1, 1984. Sets Class I milk prices (3.5 percent milk fat) at not less than $12.56, as of April 1, 1983, or enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish 1984 and 1985 soybean price supports at not less than 250 percent of the support price of corn. Limits any loan repayment period to a maximum of 540 days. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish a soybean production control program; and (2) require participation in such program as a condition of price support eligibility. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to eliminate 1984 and 1985 payment limitations on wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Authorizes expenditures by the Committee on Agriculture for the first session of the 98th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services and the provision of assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Rural Electrification Administration assure that Federal agencies consider the needs of rural America in establishing rural telephone service policy. States that such agencies should consult on a routine basis with such Administration and with related State agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
Federal Grain Storage Insurance Act of 1983 - Establishes a Federal Grain Storage Insurance Corporation in the Department of Agriculture. Requires that a majority of the Corporation's Board be active farmers. Sets forth other administrative and operating provisions. Authorizes the Corporation to borrow up to $250,000,000 from the Treasury. Establishes a farmer-financed Grain Storage Insurance Fund in the Treasury. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) grain insurance; (2) warehouse certification; and (3) criminal penalties. Makes such program effective if approved in a producer referendum to be held within 60 days.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
Beginning Farmers Assistance Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to provide guarantees for State loans to individuals to purchase and operate family farms. Limits the loan guarantee to not more than 90 percent of the principal and interest. Limits such program to 20 State agencies. Requires the Secretary to approve or disapprove State agency applications within 90 days. Provides for termination of State agency participation for noncompliance. Limits eligibility to individuals who: (1) have a net worth of less than $100,000 and assets having an aggregate value of less than $300,000 in FY 1984; (2) have not purchased or owned a family farm in the ten-year period preceding application for a loan; and (3) are unable to obtain conventional credit. Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986. Terminates the Secretary's authority to guarantee such loans at the end of FY 1986. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit the use of real estate loans for loan closing costs and points.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to deem misbranded any imported meat that is not labeled imported. Requires restaurants and other eating establishments that sell a significant amount of imported meat food products to inform their customers of such fact. Sets forth penalties for noncompliance. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue within 30 days a proposed rule defining what constitutes a significant amount of imported meat. Provides for veto of any proposed rule by either congressional agricultural committee within 60 days after issuance. Requires the Secretary to issue a revised rule within 30 days after such a disapproval.