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Bill· HRH.R. 17679 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1974
Rice Act - Title I: Rice - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, under the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, to establish for each of the 1975 through 1977 crops of rice a national acreage allotment which shall be the number of acres which will produce an amount of rice equal to the estimated domestic consumption and exports (less imports) of rice for the marketing year beginning in the year in which the crop is to be produced, adjusted to maintain adequate supplies or to prevent excessive carryover stocks. Requires that the national acreage allotment shall not be less than two million acres. Directs the Secretary to allocate the national acreage allotment on the basis of the rice allotments established for the preceding crops, as equitably adjusted. Provides for reserving a portion of the rice allotment for apportionment to new rice farms and new rice producers. Sets forth criteria for reducing the rice allotment. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer for any year because of natural disaster all or a part of such rice acreage for any farm in the county or in any other nearby county on which one or more producers on the farm from which the transfer is to be made will be engaged in the production of rice and will share in the proceeds in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. Directs the Secretary to permit the owner and operator of any farm for which a farm acreage allotment has been established to sell or lease all or any part to any other owner or operator of a farm in the same State, or to transfer all or any part of such allotment to any other farm owned or controlled by him if in the same State. Title II: Rice Research - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out regional and national research programs with respect to rice for specified purposes, including: (1) to reduce fertilizer and herbicide usage in excess of production needs; (2) to develop varieties of rice more susceptible to complete fertilizer utilization; and (3) to improve the resistance of rice plants to disease and to enhance their conservation and environmental qualities. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $1,000,000 in any fiscal year to carry out such research. Title III: Miscellaneous - Provides, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, that for the 1975 through 1977 crops of rice, a cooperator shall be a producer on a farm on which a farm acreage allotment has been established or to which a producer acreage allotment has been allocated, who has set aside the acreage required under such Act and who complies with the conditions of eligibility prescribed by the Secretary.
Bill· HRH.R. 17673 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1974
Directs the President to appoint a Commission on Fertilizer Availability: (1) to review and recommend specific conservation steps and other measures which would be taken to increase the short-term availability of fertilizer for food production; and (2) to encourage increased production of fertilizer to meet the medium and long-term fertilizer needs such as investment incentives and machinery to increase production capacity. Limits the amounts of chemical fertilizer used by any department or agency of the Federal Government during 1975 for ornamental or decorative growing purposes. Provides that such prohibition shall not apply to decorative growing aimed at preventing soil erosion.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 467 (93rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1974
Declares the sense of the Senate that all agricultural lenders use every means to assure agricultural solvency. States that it is the further sense of the Senate that: (1) the Farmers Home Administration facilitate and fully implement all lending authority in law including the Emergency Livestock Credit Act of 1974 and other disaster loan program; and (2) the Farm Credit Administration use its good offices to the fullest extent possible to support and continue agricultural producers with necessary financial support including necessary refinancing; and (3) the Federal Reserve Board fully support those commercial banks which represent the largest source of agricultural production credit in their efforts to maintain their agricultural borrowers.
Bill· SS. 4245 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1974
Prohibits the disposition of food to foreign countries under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 in any fiscal year unless the Secretary of Agriculture determines and certifies that all domestic feeding programs, including those under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act, will be adequately provided with appropriate foods in such fiscal year.
Bill· HRH.R. 17601 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1974
Modifies the labeling and packaging requirements on intrastate sales of colored oleomargarine by: (1) deleting the requirements that the word "oleomargarine" or "margarine" be in type or lettering at least as large as any other type or lettering on the label; and (2) deleting the requirement that each part of the contents of the package be contained in a wrapper which bears the word "olemargarine" or "margarine" in 20-point type and substituting the requirement that each part of the contents be in a separate wrapper. (Amends 21 U.S.C. 347 (b))
Bill· HRH.R. 17584 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1974
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to any owner of cattle in Ferry and Okanogan Counties in Washington whose cattle were stricken with DDT and thereby became unmarketable as a result of the spraying of such insecticide by the United States Forest Service between June 9, 1974, and July 25, 1974. Specifies the procedures for the making of such payments, requiring that they may only be used to purchase feed for the cattle while they remain unmarketable.
Bill· SS. 4206 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1974
Provides that the price of milk shall be supported at not less than 90 percent of the parity price for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending March 31, 1976.
Bill· SS. 4213 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1974
Provides that advances of money under any appropriation for the Forest Service may be made to the Forest Service by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture for the control of forest insects and diseases in accord with the applicable provisions of the Forest Pest Control Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 17566 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1974
Provides, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, that margarine containing animal fat shall not be deemed to be a meat food product.
Bill· HRH.R. 17545 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1974
Prohibits the manufacture or importation of specified chlorofluoromethanes (commonly referred to by the trade names Freon 11 and Freon 12), and imposes criminal penalties for violation of this Act. States that this Act shall take effect July 1, 1976, unless a determination is made that such chlorofluoromethanes present no substantial danger to human life, agriculture, or the national environment. Empowers the President of the National Academy of Sciences with sole authority to make such determination.
Bill· HRH.R. 17552 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1974
Directs the President to appoint a Commission on Fertilizer Availability: (1) to review and recommend specific conservation steps and other measures which would be taken to increase the short-term availability of fertilizer for food production; and (2) to encourage increased production of fertilizer to meet the medium and long-term fertilizer needs such as investment incentives and machinery to increase production capacity. Limits the amounts of chemical fertilizer used by any department or agency of the Federal Government during 1975 for ornamental or decorative growing purposes. Provides that such prohibition shall not apply to decorative growing aimed at preventing soil erosion.
Bill· SS. 4182 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 November 1974
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands to Mr. and Mrs. Pat Clark of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Bill· HRH.R. 17506 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 November 1974
States that if acreage poundage or poundage farm marketing quotas are in effect under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1949: (1) price support shall not be made available on tobacco marketed in excess of 110 percent of the marketing quota (after adjustments) for the farm on which such tobacco was produced; and (2) for the purpose of price-support eligibility, tobacco carried over from one marketing year to another shall, when marketed, be considred tobacco of the then current crop.
Bill· HRH.R. 17510 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 November 1974
Grants to the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to make a determination under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act as to when the national interest or humanitarian objectives of such Act call for the use of a part of the exportable supply of this Nation's surplus agricultural commodities.
Bill· HRH.R. 17494 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1974
Directs the President to appoint a Commission on Fertilizer Availability: (1) to review and recommend specific conservation steps and other measures which would be taken to increase the short-term availability of fertilizer for food production; and (2) to encourage increased production of fertilizer to meet the medium and long-term fertilizer needs such as investment incentives and machinery to increase production capacity. Limits the amounts of chemical fertilizer used by any department or agency of the Federal Government during 1975 for ornamental or decorative growing purposes. Provides that such prohibition shall not apply to decorative growing aimed at preventing soil erosion.
Bill· HRH.R. 17500 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to compensate specified employees for any losses sustained by them in the value of their personal housing in the vicinity of Holbrook, Arizona, due to the closing of the headquarters of the Sitgreaves National Forest. States that the amount of compensation paid to any eligible employee shall be the lesser of $12,500 or an amount determined by the Secretary in accordance with calculations made under the provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 4165 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1974
Directs the President to appoint a Commission on Fertilizer Availability: (1) to review and recommend specific conservation steps and other measures which would be taken to increase the short-term availability of fertilizer for food production; and (2) to encourage increased production of fertilizer to meet the medium and long-term fertilizer needs such as investment incentives and machinery to increase production capacity. Limits the amounts of chemical fertilizer used by any department or agency of the Federal Government during 1975 for ornamental or decorative growing purposes. Provides that such prohibition shall not apply to decorative growing aimed at preventing soil erosion.
Bill· SS. 4161 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Repeals the statutes requiring (1) the issuance of monthly cotton crop reports from August to December and (2) acreage reports in July, August, and December. (Repeals 7 U.S.C. 475, 476)
Bill· SS. 4157 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Authorizes the sale of checked eggs by producers at retail premises owned or controlled by the producer, except that the eggs must be refrigerated in accordance with regulations and sold not later than 48 hours after they are laid.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 682 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that it should be the policy of the United States to: (1) encourage the increased production of fertilizers which can be used for food production; (2) encourage the distribution of such fertilizers to those areas where their use will contribute the most to meeting the world's food needs; and (3) discourage the use of such fertilizers for nonagricultural purposes. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should immediately begin to: (1) study the fertilizer needs of the world's food producing areas; and (2) investigate ways in which such policies can be implemented.
Bill· SS. 4154 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1974
Directs heads of agencies responsible for the administration of the navigation and vessel-inspection laws to waive compliance with such laws when requested to do so by the Secretary of Defense or when they deem that such action is necessary in the interest of national defense, including the assurance of adequate food supplies. (Amends 46 U.S.C. Prec. 1nt)
Bill· HRH.R. 17332 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States for 12 months, unless and until the market price of milk reaches 100 per cent of parity, and then only if the Secretary of Agriculture certifies that such products equal or exceed United States health and sanitary standards.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1443 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the House that the prevention of widespread famine requires immediate and substantial public investments in agricultural research and technology for the express purpose of increasing food production which would: (1) insure a ready supply of food at reasonable consumer food costs; (2) aid in the maintenance of a favorable United States trade balance; and (3) reduce the risk of food shortages in years of adverse weather.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1440 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the House that the prevention of widespread famine requires immediate and substantial public investments in agricultural research and technology for the express purpose of increasing food production which would: (1) insure a ready supply of food at reasonable consumer food costs; (2) aid in the maintenance of a favorable United States trade balance; and (3) reduce the risk of food shortages in years of adverse weather.
Bill· HRH.R. 17246 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Food Research and Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to public and nonprofit entities and to individuals for research into, and development and demonstration of, new methods of protein production, fertilizer production, irrigation, processing of non-animal proteins, and marketing of the products produced by new methods. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act through fiscal year 1978. Provides that the products developed under this Act shall be available for school lunch programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop an educational program relating to the preparation and use of the food products produced pursuant to this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 17245 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Food Research and Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to public and nonprofit entities and to individuals for research into, and development and demonstration of, new methods of protein production, fertilizer production, irrigation, processing of non-animal proteins, and marketing of the products produced by new methods. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act through fiscal year 1978. Provides that the products developed under this Act shall be available for school lunch programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop an educational program relating to the preparation and use of the food products produced pursuant to this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 17237 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Prohibits the importation into the United States of any fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle meat during a one-hundred-and-eighty-day period.
Bill· HRH.R. 17225 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Transfers all functions of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires such transfer to be implemented in accordance with such procedures and regulations as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall prescribe.
Bill· HRH.R. 17228 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Provides that the loan and purchase program for the 1974-1975 peanut crop shall not be subject to change, by regulation or otherwise, from the program as it was administered for the 1973 crop.
Bill· SS. 4109 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Requires airline tickets to show total charges for transportation and for taxes, under the internal Revenue Code. (Amends 26 4SC7275(a)).
Bill· HRH.R. 17208 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a temporary program whereby the Secretary shall obtain feed for beef cattle and sell such feed to cattlemen at a reduced rate if the parity price of milk falls below a specified level.
Bill· HRH.R. 17207 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Emergency Famine Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, live beef cattle for shipment to nations experiencing widespread famine, especially Honduras, Cyprus, and Sahel. Authorizes to be appropraited $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 17191 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make indemnity payments to any farmer who establishes, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that he has suffered crop depredation as a result of migratory birds or other protected wildlife. Prescribes the procedure for computation of the amount of the payments.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1427 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the House that the prevention of widespread famine requires immediate and substantial public investments in agricultural research and technology for the express purpose of increasing food production which would: (1) insure a ready supply of food at reasonable consumer food costs; (2) aid in the maintenance of a favorable United States trade balance; and (3) reduce the risk of food shortages in years of adverse weather.
Bill· HRH.R. 17122 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1974
Commodity Set-Aside Act - States that, for the purpose of providing a reserve of basic food commodities for use for human consumption and seed purposes whenever there is a shortage of such commodities, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall obtain specified amounts of wheat, feed grains, and nonfat dry milk solids for the purpose of establishing a set-aside for each such commodity. States that the Commodity Credit Corporation may use amounts of any other agricultural commodity as a substitute for any commodity listed above if the amount of the commodity being used as a substitute is nutritionally equivalent to the amount of the commodity for which it is being substituted. Provides that the set-aside for each such commodity shall be completed by the end of the 1979 crop year, except that the set-aside of nonfat dry milk solids shall be completed by January 1, 1979. Authorizes the President to release amounts of the set-aside when it is determined that such set-aside will exceed the aggregate of domestic production and imports at the close of any crop year. Provides that the President may release any amount from any set-aside: (1) for transfer to the national stockpile in time of national emergency; (2) for donation to school lunch programs, and (3) for disaster relief purposes. States that any amount of upland cotton, cottonseed oil, butter, or cheese which is a part of a commodity set-aside under Federal law shall be released when and under such terms and conditions as the President deems appropriate. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 17106 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1974
Establishes a 2-year program under which Secretary of Agriculture shall obtain feed for dairy cattle and sell such feed to dairymen at a reduced rate if the price of milk paid to producers falls below 90 percent of the parity price.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1414 (93rd)reported
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture should set the dairy support level at 90 percent of parity for the remainder of the 1974-1975 marketing year.
Bill· HRH.R. 17087 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey specified lands in the Sierra National Forest, California, to the Madera Cemetery District.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 418 (93rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that, pursuant to the statutory mandate that the price of milk be supported at such level as to assure the maintenance of productive capacity sufficient to meet anticipated future needs, the Secretary of Agriculture redetermine and set the support level at 80 percent of parity for the remainder of the 1974-1975 marketing year, based on the latest available data, thereby enabling milk producers to offset part of their rising production costs.
Bill· SS. 4068 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1974
Provides that not less than 15 percent of the total value of food stamps issued pursuant to the Food Stamp Act to an eligible household during each month or other time period shall be coded as to be usable only for the purchase of beef, pork, or poultry unless the State agency finds that such coding is impracticable with regard to a specific household. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 2013(a))
Bill· SS. 4058 (93rd)reported
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1974
States that the purpose of this Act is to eliminate the obstructions to the free flow of commerce in wine among the several States resulting from acts of the States which impose discriminatory and unreasonable burdens upon such commerce. Prohibits any State which permits the transportation or importation of wine into that State from imposing, with respect to any wine produced outside the State, or from materials originating outside the State, any tax, regulation, prohibition, or requirement which is not equally applicable with respect to wine of the same class (1) produced in, or from materials originating in, the State imposing such tax, regulation, prohibition, or requirement, or (2) produced outside the State, or produced from products produced outside the State. Stipulates that a State which permits the sale of wine within the State shall permit the transportation or importation of wine of the same class produced outside the State, or from materials originating outside the State, into such State for sale therein upon terms and conditions equally applicable to all wine of the same class sold in the State. Declares that notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, each State retains the right: (1) to engage in the purchase, sale, or distribution of wine; and (2) to exercise discretion in the selection and listing of wine to be purchased or sold by each such State.
Bill· HRH.R. 16906 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1974
Young Farmers Investment Act - Provides that direct loans may be made for acquiring and improving owner-operated farms without regard to monetary limitations but not in excess of the present market values of the farms as certified by the appropriate county committees. States that the loan shall bear interest at a rate not in excess of 6 percent per annum. Stipulates that an amount equal to not less than 50 percent of the loan may be amortized over a period of 40 years. Provides that the balance of any such loan shall become due and payable at the end of such period or extension thereof approved by the Secretary of Agriculture if the farm is then owned and operated by an eligible borrower or at such earlier date as the farm, or any interest therein, is transferred without the consent or approval of the Secretary to an ineligible person.
Law· HRH.R. 16901 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Agriculture-Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriation Act - Makes appropriations for agriculture-environmental and consumer protection programs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, including: (1) Department of Agriculture programs, corporations and agencies; (2) rural development programs and funds; (3) environmental programs of independent agencies; and (4) consumer programs of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Food and Drug Administration, and the General Services Administration.
Bill· HRH.R. 16874 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Federal Food Reserve Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish, maintain, and rotate stocks in a food reserve of inventories of wheat, feed grains, and soybeans. Requires the reserve to include at least three hundred million bushels of wheat; twenty five million tons of feed grains, and one hundred million bushels of soybeans. States that the reserve shall be established by: (1) offering to producers who have eligible commodities under Commodity Credit Corporation loans an opportunity to extend the loans for a period of two years, and having such commodities held in producer-owned facilities, and earning storage at rates comparable to those paid for storage in commercial facilities; (2) setting aside from Commodity Credit Corporation-owned stocks quantities to be identified and held as reserves; and (3) purchasing in the open market at prices no less than the current price-support loan rates and no higher than the prevailing market prices, as determined by the Secretary. Provides that except when a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the President, or by a resolution of Congress, the Secretary shall offer any commodity in the reserve for sale at any time at the average price received by producers for which that commodity exceeds 105 percent of parity through two consecutive monthly reporting periods. States that the commodities may also be used for relieving distress areas, disaster areas, and in connection with civil defense emergencies. Directs the Secretary to prevent domestic shortages of the designated commodities by establishing a system of export controls. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 16893 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Decreases, under the Rural Electrification Act, the loan authorizations for the rural electrification program from $595,000,000 to $228,534,000, which includes a decreased appropriation authorization of $55,831,475 (previously $145,000,000) for the rural telephone program.
Bill· HRH.R. 16880 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Rural Development Act Amendments - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into contracts for the construction and operation of three pilot facilities for the production of synthetic gas using a lignite or coal gasification process. States that synthetic gas so produced shall be sold exclusively as a feedstock to persons engaged in the production of nitrogen fertilizer. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1394 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the House that the prevention of widespread famine requires immediate and substantial public investments in agricultural research and technology for the express purpose of increasing food production which would: (1) insure a ready supply of food at reasonable consumer food costs; (2) aid in the maintenance of a favorable United States trade balance; and (3) reduce the risk of food shortages in years of adverse weather.
Bill· SS. 4038 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1974
Milk Price Support Act - Provides for the setting of the price support of milk at not less than 100 percent of parity under the provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949 as the Secretary determines is necessary in order to assure an adequate supply of pure and wholesome milk to meet current needs, reflect changes in the cost of production, and assure a level of farm income to maintain productive capacity sufficient to meet anticipated future needs.
Bill· HRH.R. 16847 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1974
Directs the President to establish a Soybean Research Institute jointly supported by the United States and the People's Republic of China. Sets forth the objective of such Institute. Authorizes the President to use $2,000,000 annually out of funds of the Agricultural Research Service or funds of any other appropriate Federal agency.
Bill· HRH.R. 16806 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1974
Food Research and Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to public and nonprofit entities and to individuals for research into, and development and demonstration of, new methods of protein production, fertilizer production, irrigation, processing of non-animal proteins, and marketing of the products produced by new methods. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act through fiscal year 1978. Provides that the products developed under this Act shall be available for school lunch programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop an educational program relating to the preparation and use of the food products produced pursuant to this Act.