Acreage-poundage Marketing Quotas for Tobacco: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ..., 89-1 on S. 821 ..., February 9 and 10, 1965 |
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acreage basis acreage control acreage-poundage basis acreage-poundage control acres of tobacco Agricultural Adjustment Act American tobacco average yield goal bill burley tobacco centum Chairman Congress crop determine DURDEN effect ELVINGTON Everett Jordan export Farm Bureau farm marketing quota farms Acreage allotted favor Flue-cured tobacco Georgia glad GODFREY going grades hearings HOLLIDAY Imperial Tobacco increased kind of tobacco LANIER legislation million pounds MURPHY national acreage allotment national average yield national marketing quota North Carolina Number of farms PALMER percent pounds of pounds pounds of tobacco pounds per acre preliminary farm yield President price support problem production of tobacco proposed quality tobacco questions reduced Senator COOPER Senator JORDAN Senator TALMADGE SLOAN South special referendum Stabilization Corp statement subsection Swainsboro Thank Tobacco Associates tobacco farmers tobacco growers tobacco industry tobacco produced tobacco program type 14 types of tobacco U.S. Senator Virginia vote yield per acre
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Page 10 - Secretary shall, not later than December 1 of any marketing year with respect to Flue-cured tobacco, and February 1 with respect to other kinds of tobacco, proclaim a national marketing quota for that kind of tobacco for the next three succeeding marketing years if the marketing year is the last year of three consecutive years for which marketing quotas previously proclaimed will be in effect. The Secretary in his discretion may proclaim the quota on an acreage-poundage basis as provided in this...
Page 6 - If any producer falsely identifies or fails to account for the disposition of any tobacco, the Secretary, in lieu of assessing and collecting penalties based on actual marketings of excess tobacco, may elect to assess a penalty computed...
Page 19 - ... the Congress. This report was printed by the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and received wide distribution. One of the alternative methods discussed in that report was a combination of farm acreage and poundage quotas not unlike the one provided in HR 4532. A subcommittee of the Senate committee held six public hearings in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina in March and April 1957, on S. 1219, a bill "to authorize a system of acreage-poundage allotments for tobacco.
Page 177 - ... section, shall be apportioned by the Secretary among the several States on the basis of the total production of tobacco in each State during the five calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year in which the quota is proclaimed (plus, in applicable years, the normal production on the acreage diverted under previous agricultural adjustment and conservation programs), with such adjustments as are determined to be necessary to make correction for abnormal conditions of production, for...
Page 4 - National average yield goal" for any kind of tobacco means the yield per acre which on a national average basis the Secretary determines will improve or insure the usability of the tobacco and increase the net return per pound to the growers. In making this determination the Secretary shall give consideration to such Federal-State production research data as he deems relevant. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, in 1983, and at five-year intervals thereafter, the national average yield goal for...
Page 5 - If the Secretary determines that twothirds or more of the farmers voting in such referendum approve marketing quotas on a poundage basis, marketing quotas as provided in this section shall be in effect for those three marketing years. If marketing quotas on a poundage basis are not approved by at least two-thirds of the farmers voting in such referendum, no marketing quotas...
Page 177 - ... due allowance for drought, flood, hail, other abnormal weather conditions, plant bed, and other diseases; land, labor and equipment available for the production of tobacco, crop rotation practices; and the soil and other physical factors affecting the production of tobacco.
Page 22 - Within thirty days after the enactment of this section the Secretary pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall determine and announce the amount of the national marketing quota for Flue-cured tobacco for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1965 and the national acreage allotment and national average yield goal for the 1965 crop of Flue-cured tobacco...
Page 147 - I wish' to thank this committee for affording me the opportunity to appear here today.
Page 6 - ... such farm and kind of tobacco shall be reduced, except that such reduction for any such farm shall not be made if it is established to the satisfaction of the county and State committees...