Agriculture

Dairy Surplus Reduction Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Dairy Surplus Reduction Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the present milk support price of $13.10 per hundredweight through September 30, 1985. Eliminates the additional April 1983 50-cent milk producer assessment (retains the October 1, 1982 assessment). Establishes a voluntary incentive program of payments of $10 per hundredweight to dairy farmers who reduce the quantity of milk marketed by between five and 30 percent of 1982 levels. Requires that one-half of the payments be made within 30 days after a reduction contract is entered and the remaining amount within 30 days after compliance with the contract has been determined. Requires a participant to return the initial payment plus 12 percent interest for contract noncompliance. Authorizes the Secretary to modify: (1) individual contracts to prevent overall excess reductions; and (2) individual 1982 bases if they were abnormally low as a result of natural or man-made disasters. Makes contracts assignable. Subjects a participant to a civil penalty (after a hearing of record) of up to $10,000 for specified contract violations (unauthorized transfer of dairy cattle and milk facilities). Provides for review of such penalty assessment in U.S. district courts. Terminates such program as of October 1, 1985.

Payment In Kind Tax Clarification Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Payment In Kind Tax Clarification Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for taxpayers who receive agricultural commodities under a Federal payment-in-kind program: (1) no income shall be treated as realized by receipt of such commodities; but; (2) any gain realized from the sale or exchange of such commodities shall be included in gross income and shall be treated as ordinary income. Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of commodities received under such a program involving repayment of Commodity Credit Corporation loans. Specifies that farmers participating in a payment- in-kind program do not forfeit eligibility for the special use valuation provisions for farm property. Specifies that tax-exempt farmers' cooperatives shall not forfeit tax-exempt status if such a cooperative markets any commodity received by, or on behalf of, a member participating in a payment-in-kind program.

A bill to amend the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to establish a program for the financing of agricultural exports.

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to require the Bank to establish a program to increase the Bank's role in financing agricultural exports from the United States. Directs the Bank to seek to achieve a specified level of participation in agricultural export financing. Requires the Bank to consult with the Commodity Credit Corporation in order to: (1) identify the appropriate commodities for inclusion in the program; and (2) develop loans and other export financing in which the Bank can participate with the CCC. Requires the Bank to make a specified amount available for the financing of agricultural exports. Requires the Bank to include a full report on the program established under this Act in its annual report.

A bill to establish in the Department of State the position of Under Secretary of State for Agricultural Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Establishes in the Department of State the position of Under Secretary of State for Agricultural Affairs to deal with agricultural issues, including U.S. policy toward farm exports.

Emergency Commodity Distribution Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Emergency Commodity Distribution Act of 1983 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make unobligated Commodity Credit Corporation stocks available within 60 days. Sets forth eligible recipient agencies, including those serving children and schools, the elderly, the unemployed, low-income people, and disaster victims. Directs the Secretary to make commodities available without charge in forms suitable for home or institutional use. Provides cash assistance to States (five cents per pound) for commodity-related administrative costs. Directs the States to use such funds to defray agency costs in obtaining and distributing donated non-Federal commodities or food items. Requires the States to ensure that the amount of administrative funds provided does not exceed actual commodity and food distribution costs. Prohibits States from charging recipient agencies for related costs. Authorizes the Secretary to distribute commodities directly to recipient agencies, and requires such distribution where State agencies are prohibited from so doing. Directs the Secretary and the States to enter into inventory agreements with private companies to process commodities into food products. Requires the Secretary to periodically publish in the Federal Register a list of available commodities.

Dairy Surplus Reduction Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Dairy Surplus Reduction Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the present milk support price of $13.10 per hundredweight through September 30, 1985. Eliminates the additional April 1983 50-cent milk producer assessment (retains the October 1, 1982 assessment). Establishes a voluntary incentive program of payments of $10 per hundredweight to dairy farmers who reduce the quantity of milk marketed by between five and 30 percent of 1982 levels. Requires that one-half of the payments be made within 30 days after a reduction contract is entered and the remaining amount within 30 days after compliance with the contract has been determined. Requires a participant to return the initial payment plus 12 percent interest for contract noncompliance. Authorizes the Secretary to modify: (1) individual contracts to prevent overall excess reductions; and (2) individual 1982 bases if they were abnormally low as a result of natural or man-made disasters. Makes contracts assignable. Subjects a participant to a civil penalty (after a hearing of record) of up to $10,000 for specified contract violations (unauthorized transfer of dairy cattle and milk facilities). Provides for review of such penalty assessment in U.S. district courts. Terminates such program as of October 1, 1985.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the tax treatment of agricultural commodities received under a payment-in-kind program.

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for taxpayers who receive agricultural commodities under a Federal payment-in-kind program: (1) no income shall be treated as realized by receipt of such commodities; but (2) any gain realized from the sale or exchange of such commodities shall be included in gross income and shall be treated as ordinary income. Treats such commodities as commodities produced on acreage diverted from agricultural use for purposes of the estate tax valuation of farm property.

A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to revise rules establishing a special program of payment-in-kind for acreage diversion for the 1983 crop of certain commodities to permit producers to divert soybean acreage from production and receive corn as payment-in-kind.

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from issuing final payment-in-kind regulations unless such regulations permit the Secretary to enter into agreements with producers of the 1983 crop of soybeans for idling specified percentages of soybean cropland in exchange for payments in corn.

A resolution disapproving the deferral of certain budget authority (D83-36) relating to the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Expresses the House's disapproval of certain budget deferral authority (D83-36) relating to the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Dairy Indemnity Program.

A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to modify the dairy price support program.

United States · United States Congress · 16 February 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.

Dairy Price Support Amendments Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 16 February 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.

A bill to authorize the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell corn or other feed grain acquired through price-support operations to persons for conversion into alcohol for use as fuel.

United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1983

Authorizes the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell price-support acquired corn and other feed grains for conversion into alcohol fuels.

Agricultural Commodity Donation Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1983

Agricultural Commodity Donation Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480) to direct the President to assure that 55 to 60 percent of the total tonnage of famine relief (title II) commodities is in processed and protein fortified forms. States that, in using nonprofit voluntary agencies to distribute food commodities, the President shall consider the nutritional and developmental objectives of such agencies. Provides for an increased role of U.S. voluntary agencies in the Food for Development Program (title III). Directs the President to expand such Program through required fiscal year contract goals. Requires a report to Congress if such goals are not attained. Requires agreements under title III to provide for the use of food commodities to lessen food shortages in famine-prone countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow any taxpayer to elect to treat for income tax purposes any crop received under a Federal program for removing land from agricultural production as produced by the taxpayer, to allow any taxpayer to elect to defer income on any cancellation under such a program if any price support loan, and to provide that participation in such a program shall not disqualify the taxpayer for the special use valuation of farm real property under section 2032A of such code.

United States · United States Congress · 16 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. Specifies that farmers participating in a payment in kind program do not forfeit eligibility for the special use valuation under the estate tax provisions for farm property.

A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the No Net Cost Tobacco Program Act of 1982, to eliminate the requirement that tobacco quota lessors contribute to the No Net Cost Tobacco Fund.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the tax treatment of agricultural commodities received under a payment-in-kind program.

United States · United States Congress · 15 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. Provides that farmers participating in a payment-in-kind program do not forfeit eligibility for the special use valuation provisions for farm property.

John J. Franke, Jr., of Kansas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 10 February 1983

Expanded Agricultural Commodity Distribution and Foreign Assistance Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Expanded Agricultural Commodity Distribution and Foreign Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize distribution of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) stocks of dairy products to U.S. needy households and to persons receiving nutrition assistance under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Authorizes the donation of CCC dairy products and other agricultural commodities and products to needy persons outside the United States through certain organizations and foreign governments. Authorizes the CCC to pay for the reprocessing, packaging, transporting, handling and other charges of such donated commodities and products. Requires donations to be coordinated with other U.S. foreign assistance through a specified mechanism.

Emergency Agricultural Credit Assistance Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Emergency Agricultural Credit Assistance Act of 1983 - Direct the Secretary of Agriculture to permit Farmers Home Administration loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals for at least one year. Provides for subsequent loan consolidation and rescheduling at the lower of either original or current interest rates. Requires the Secretary to guarantee deferrals of private agricultural loans through FY 1984. Requires county committee written certification before such a deferral may be made. Provides for certification appeal. Sets forth deferral agreement provisions, including specified guarantee limits. States that Agricultural Credit Insurance monies shall be used to pay for such program. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase the guaranteed portions of loans subject to such agreements. Directs the Secretary to ensure that farmers and lenders are notified about such deferral and guarantee programs. Extends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 through FY 1984.

Surplus Food Distribution Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Surplus Food Distribution Act of 1983 - 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 for the coming three-year period. Provides that up to 2,000,000 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. 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.

Domestic Commodity Distribution and Hunger Relief Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Domestic Commodity Distribution and Hunger Relief 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 for the coming three-year period. 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. Authorizes specified appropriations.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should barter, under existing provisions of law, commodities (especially dairy products) owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation for materials produced in foreign countries.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should exchange or barter, to the maximum extent practicable under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, and the Agricultural Act of 1949, commodities (especially dairy products) owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation for materials, goods, and equipment produced in foreign countries.

A bill to improve programs for the stabilization of agricultural prices and production.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to exempt 1983 through 1985 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice payments-in-kind from specified payment limitation and sales price restrictions.

Emergency Agricultural Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Emergency Agricultural Act of 1983 - Title I: Emergency Loan Guarantees - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to guarantee up to 90 percent of private lender farm loans if the lenders agree to defer payments and interest or foreclosures through FY 1984. Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) charging any fees in connection with such agreements; and (2) guaranteeing loans in excess of specified ceilings. Sets aside specified moneys in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund for such loan guarantee program. Directs the Secretary to use Federal intermediate banks and their credit associations to administer such program. Title II: Loan Deferrals - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit family farmers to request Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals through FY 1984. Provides for loan consolidation and rescheduling at the end of such deferral period. Requires the Secretary to provide notification to FmHA borrowers regarding such deferral and rescheduling programs. Title III: Domestic Payments In Kind - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to exempt 1983 through 1985 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice payments-in-kind from specified payment limitation and sales price restrictions. Requires payment adjustments to be made to double-cropping farmers whose second crop's acreage is reduced as a result of program participation. Prohibits soybeans from being grown on acreage required to be devoted to conservation uses. Title IV: Exports - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, to provide for the donation abroad and the expansion of U.S. export markets through the use of Commodity Credit Corporation surpluses. Title V: Payment Limitations - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to increase agricultural program payment limitations for the 1982 through 1985 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice.

Family Farm Emergency Credit Assistance Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Family Farm Emergency Credit Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit family farmers to request economic hardship loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals through December 31, 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 of Agriculture 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. Requires the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration to submit recommendations to the appropriate congressional committees on how the Federal land banks and the Federal intermediate credit banks could implement a similar family farm credit assistance program.

Payment-in-Kind Tax Treatment Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 7 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.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the tax treatment of agricultural commodities received under a payment-in-kind program.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for taxpayers who receive agricultural commodities under a Federal payment-in-kind program: (1) no income shall be treated as realized by receipt of such commodities; but (2) any gain realized from the sale or exchange of such commodities shall be included in gross income and shall be treated as ordinary income. Treats such commodities as commodities produced on acreage diverted from agricultural use for purposes of the estate tax valuation of farm property.

Domestic Commodity Assistance Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Domestic Commodity Assistance Act of 1983 - 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 for the coming three-year period. Provides that up to 2,000,000 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. 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. 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.

A bill making an urgent appropriation for commodity distribution, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Appropriates otherwise unappropriated Treasury funds for FY 1983 for agricultural commodity distribution among the States under the Community Services Block Grant Act. Sets forth a distribution formula based on unemployed and poverty-level persons and FY 1982 agricultural distributions. Permits unused funds to be used for food programs for unemployed and low-income people.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the tax treatment of agricultural commodities received under a payment-in-kind program

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for taxpayers who receive agricultural commodities under a Federal payment-in-kind program: (1) no income shall be treated as realized by receipt of such commodities; but, (2) any gain realized from the sale or exchange of such commodities shall be included in gross income and shall be treated as ordinary income. Treates such commodities as commodities produced on acreage divested from agricultural use for purposes of the estate tax valuation of farm property.

Fair Trade for Agriculture Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983

Fair Trade for Agriculture Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the President to determine, within 90 days of enactment, the foreign countries that impose nontariff trade barriers on imports of U.S. agricultural goods. Directs the President to publish a list of such countries within 120 days of enactment. Authorizes the President to revise such list. Authorizes any interested person to file with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) a petition alleging that a foreign country is imposing nontariff trade barriers on imports of U.S. agricultural goods that restrict U.S. commerce or impair the growth of markets in that country for such goods. Directs the USTR to determine whether the allegations are true and to inform the President of any such determination. Sets forth time limits on the actions by the USTR. Directs the President, within 60 days after it is determined that a country is imposing such trade barriers, to impose trade restrictions on U.S. imports of that country's products that will have an economic effect equivalent to the effect of such trade barriers, notwithstanding any trade agreement between the United States and that country. Requires the trade restrictions to remain in effect until the President, acting through the USTR, determines that the foreign country has removed the nontariff trade barriers. Sets forth the responsibilities of the USTR with respect to petitions for the imposition of reciprocal trade restrictions. Requires the President to publish in the Federal Register and report to Congress: (1) the results of all determinations of the existence of foreign nontariff trade barriers; and (2) all actions taken to impose reciprocal trade restrictions. Provides for judicial review of determinations by the USTR with respect to the existence of nontariff trade barriers.

Agricultural Export Recovery Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Agricultural Export Recovery Act of 1983 - Establishes within the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) an Agricultural Export Sales Revolving Fund which shall be available to promote agricultural commodity exports. Makes available, and credits, to the Fund an amount equal to the total amount of payments made to producers, or projected to be made to producers, under the land diversion programs for the 1983 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make commodities owned by the CCC available for export to encourage increased commercial exports of agricultural commodities.

A resolution to express the sense of the Senate concerning tax treatment of payment-in-kind commodity payments.

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the tax issues relating to the payment-in-kind commodity program should be resolved through legislation treating such payments as farm-produced commodities. Resolves that Congress enact such legislation at the earliest possible date in order to meet the signup deadline for participating members.

Emergency Agricultural Credit Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Emergency Agricultural Credit Act of 1983 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to raise the limits on aggregate operating loans to an individual: (1) from $1,000 to $200,000 for non-guaranteed loans; and (2) from $200,000 to $400,000 for guaranteed loans. Extends the maximum payment period from seven to 15 years. Authorizes $1,660,000 for the aggregate amount of insured operating loans for FY 1983. Sets aside a specified portion for new borrowers. Requires that at least 20 percent of FY 1983 farm ownership and operating loans be for limited-resource farmers. Requires the Secretary to notify all farmers about such program. Requires deferred or rescheduled loan interest rates to be at the lower of either original or current rates. States that disaster emergency loan assistance eligibility based on production loss is to be based solely on criteria under such Act, and not on whether a county is designated for emergency loans. Authorizes four and three year extensions for specified categories of borrowers. Permits family farmers to request economic hardship loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals through FY 1984. Requires a showing of: (1) good management; (2) temporary inability to repay because of circumstances beyond one's control; and (3) a reasonable chance of repayment. Provides for loan consolidation and rescheduling at the end of such deferral period. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to provide notification to Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) borrowers regarding such deferral and rescheduling programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a Guaranteed Farm Loan Program Unit in each State Office of the FmHA to administer the various guaranteed farm loans. Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to: (1) require (presently only authorizes) the Secretary to carry out such program; (2) extend program authority through FY 1984; and (3) provide 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).

United States Export Market Expansion Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

United States Export Market Expansion Act of 1983 - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate and carry out a program under which agricultural commodities and products acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation (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. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 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. Requires such donations to be coordinated with other U.S. foreign assistance through a specified mechanism. Encourages the Secretary to donate abroad or sell for export at least 50,000 metric tons of Corporation-owned dairy products during each of FY 1983-85. Requires the Secretary to report semiannually, through FY 1985, to Congress on the status of such sales or donations. Authorizes the sale of extra long staple cotton, held by the Corporation, at such prices determined appropriate by the Secretary in order to maintain and expand export and domestic markets for such cotton. Requires the Secretary to encourage the consumption of commodities made available at no cost through agreements with private companies under which the commodity is processed into end products for use by eligible recipients. Requires such recipients to bear the expense of processing.

Agricultural Export Recovery Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Agricultural Export Recovery Act of 1983 - Establishes within the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) an Agricultural Export Sales Revolving Fund which shall be available to promote agricultural commodity exports. Makes available to the Fund an amount equal to the total amount of payments made to producers, or projected to be made, under the land diversion programs for the 1983 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make commodities owned by the CCC available for export in order to encourage increased commercial exports of agricultural commodities.

A resolution to express the sense of the Senate urging Presidential action in calling for an immediate Domestic Economic and Trade Summit to address the United States' long term trade policy by a bipartisan group of individuals from the Government, Business, Labor, Agriculture, and the Academic Community.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should call for a domestic economic and trade summit to shape trade policy for U.S. farmers, industries, and trading partners in the 1980's. Declares that such summit should be comprised of a bipartisan group from the government, business, labor, farm, and academic communities.

An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983

Authorizes the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, from March 1, 1983, through February 29, 1984, to: (1) make expenditures from the contingent fund; (2) employ personnel; (3) utilize department or agency personnel on a reimbursable basis; (4) procure consultant services; and (5) provide training for its professional staff.

Erosion Reduction Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983

Erosion Reduction Act of 1983 - Makes persons who cultivate erosion-susceptible land in a manner which does not prevent such erosion ineligible for price supports, loans, and other specified agricultural payments, loans, and price supports.

A bill to insure that the total value received by a producer under a special payment-in-kind land conservation program is at least 85 percent of the basic county loan rate for a commodity.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983

Provides producers for commodities involved in the payment-in-kind program with a floor price of 85 percent of the basic county loan rate.

Agricultural Export Equity Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 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.

A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to forego foreclosure and defer payment with respect to certain loans of the Farmers Home Administration.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit family farmers to request economic hardship loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals. Requires a showing of: (1) good management; (2) temporary inability to pay due to circumstances beyond one's control; and (3) reasonable chance of repayment. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to provide notification of such programs to Farmers Home Administration borrowers. Provides for loan consolidation and rescheduling (at interest rates not in excess of the original loan rates) at the end of such deferral period.

Farm Credit Improvement Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983

Farm Credit Improvement Act of 1983 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase the limit on Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) operating loans from $100,000 to $300,000. Extends the rescheduling and reamortizing period on FmHA loans from seven to 15 years. Prohibits interest rates on such rescheduled loans from being higher than the original interest charge. Extends additional disaster loan eligibility periods for specified borrowers. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should provide maximum credit assistance to those farmers temporarily unable to meet their debt obligations.

A bill to require that imports of fresh ginger root meet all the requirements imposed on domestic fresh ginger root.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to subject imported fresh ginger root to the same restrictions as those applicable to domestic ginger.

A bill to establish a soil tilth center at Iowa State University.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a soil tilth center at Iowa State University. Authorizes appropriations. Limits construction expenses.

Emergency Farm Credit Assistance Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983

Emergency Farm Credit Assistance Act of 1983 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to guarantee or insure $600,000,000 in economic emergency loans for FY 1983. Directs the Secretary to grant a two-year moratorium on Farmers Home Administration loan collections and foreclosures for qualifying borrowers.

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 1983 - Title I: Cropland Conservation and Acreage Limitation Programs for 1984 and 1985 Crops - Subtitle A: Cropland Conservation Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to proclaim a national cropland conservation program for the 1984 and 1985 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice crops. Requires participants to set aside 20 percent of their cropland for conservation use. Requires such program to be approved or disapproved by a producer referendum. Sets commodity loan and purchase levels, if the program is approved, at $4.35 per bushel for wheat, $3 per bushel for corn, $.71 per pound for upland cotton, and $9 per-hundred weight for rice. Sets commodity price levels, upon program approval, at $4.71 per bushel for wheat, $3.28 per bushel for corn, $.83 per pound for upland cotton, and $11 per hundredweight for rice. States that noncompliance will result in a two-year denial of specified farm benefits. Subtitle B: Acreage Limitation Program - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish minimum 20 percent set-aside programs for the 1984 and 1985 wheat, feed grain, and upland cotton crops if cropland conversion programs are disapproved. Bases such programs on carry-over levels (five percent for wheat, 18 percent for feed grains, and 4,200,000 bales for cotton). Gives participating wheat and feed grain farmers a five percent loan rate increase and cotton farmers a ten percent increase. Permits specified additional set-asides and loan rate increase options for each of these crops. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 and the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981. Title II: Farm Storage Facility Loan Program - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to guarantee up to 90 percent of any grower-harvested grain storage facility loan, and up to $250,000,000 of all such loans annually. Title III: Barter of Agricultural Commodities for Strategic and Critical Materials and Petroleum Products - Authorizes the CCC to exchange agricultural products for oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress regarding CCC foreign products bartering. Title IV: Emergency Agricultural Credit - Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to make the discretionary economic emergency loan program mandatory. Extends such program through FY 1985. Lowers the production loss assistance threshold from 30 to 20 percent. Title V: Agricultural Exports - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) $1,000,000,000 should be made available to the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund; and (2) the Secretary should conclude a grain agreement with the Soviet Union. Title VI: White House Conference on Agriculture - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convene a White House Conference on Agriculture within one year. Requires a Conference report to the President and Congress.

Emergency Agricultural Credit Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983

Emergency Agricultural Credit Act of 1983 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit family farmers to request economic hardship loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals through FY 1983. Provides for loan consolidation and rescheduling at the end of such deferral period. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide notification to Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) borrowers regarding such deferral and rescheduling programs. Prohibits deferred or rescheduled loan interest rates from exceeding original rates. Raises limits on individual aggregate guaranteed and insured operating loans. Authorizes specified amounts for FY 1983 operating loans. Sets aside a specified portion for new borrowers. Requires that at least 20 percent of FY 1983 farm ownership and operating loans be for limited-resource farmers. Requires the Secretary to notify all farmers about such program. Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to require the Secretary to make economic emergency loans (currently the Secretary is authorized to make such loans, but not required). Authorizes additional amounts in loan guarantees for such program.

Domestic Commodity Distribution and Food Assistance Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 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 for the coming three-year period. Provides that up to 2,000,000 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. 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.

A bill to expand the export sales of agricultural commodities produced in the United States through the use of commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983

Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to expand U.S. agricultural markets abroad through the use of Commodity Credit Corporation surpluses tendered to U.S. exporters, producers, processors, and users. Directs the Secretary to: (1) aid domestic industries hurt by imports made in whole or in part from such stocks; (2) ensure that such stocks be used to expand and not displace usual U.S. markets; and (3) prevent the resale or transshipment of such stocks.