Acreage-poundage Marketing Quotas for Tobacco: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Tobacco of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, 89th Congress, 1st Session on H.R. 4532, H.R. 4707, H.R. 4783, and H.R. 5186, February 11, 16, 17, 18, and 24, 1965U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 288 pages Feb. 11 hearing was held in Washington, D.C.; Feb. 16 hearing was held in Raleigh, N.C.; Feb. 17 hearing was held in Florence, S.C.; and Feb. 18 hearing was held in Moultrie, Ga. |
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Page 8 - Farm Policy in the Years Ahead," which included comments and recommendations on tobacco. The summary recommendation on tobacco was as follows : To meet the serious quality problem now existing for some leading types of tobacco and to hold production of the crop more firmly in line with utilization we recommend the use of poundage quotas rather than acreage controls. While this appears desirable for all types under the Government program, the need is more pressing for some types than for others. Accordingly,...
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Page 3 - 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 266 - Do you have any opinion as to whether or not it would be more equitable to base these yields on a township basis rather than on a county base ? Mr.
Page ii - Counsel FRANCIS M. LEMAY, Staff Consultant SUBCOMMITTEE ON TOBACCO WATKINS M. ABBITT, Virginia, Chairman JOHN L. MCMILLAN, South Carolina PAUL B. DAGUE, Pennsylvania DR (BILLY) MATTHEWS, Florida DON L.
Page 182 - Chairman and members of the committee, I am glad to be here. I am James Anderson from Conway, down in Horry County.
Page 3 - ... determines is desirable for the purpose of maintaining an adequate supply or for effecting an orderly reduction of supplies to the reserve supply level. Any such downward adjustment shall not exceed 5 per centum of such estimated utilization and exports. For each marketing year for which marketing quotas are in effect under this section, the Secretary in his discretion may establish a reserve...
Page 3 - Flue-cured tobacco of the 1964 crop to determine whether they favor or oppose the establishment of marketing quotas on an acreage-poundage basis as provided in this section for the marketing years beginning July 1, 1965, July 1, 1966, and July 1, 1967, in lieu of quotas on an acreage basis in effect for those marketing years. If the Secretary determines that more than 66% per centum of the farmers voting in the special referendum approve marketing...
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