Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and ForestryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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1985 projected 2000 projected acre bushel acreage agricultural commodities annual areas average acquisition value cash rent cents Committee on Agriculture Commodity Credit Corporation corn COST LEVELS cost of production Cost per bushel Cost per Cost COSTS PER ACRE cotton countries crop cropland current land value dairy dollars economic environments estimates excluding land Experiment Station export farm income farmers feed grains Fertilizer fixed costs fungicides growth Herbicides hundredweight impact increase inflation inputs Insecticides Interest on operating Irrigation labor land allocation livestock machinery million minimum tillage operating capital output overhead payments percent pesticides population pound Preemergence herbicide production costs purchase reduced tillage rent basis Research rural scenario Seed share rent silage social soil sorghum South Dakota soybeans SPECIFIED SUBREGIONS TABLE target prices tillage systems tion Total cost trends United USDA variable costs Vegoil wheat World food program yields
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Page 21 - ... for the establishment of facilities for aiding in the utilization, distribution, or otherwise increasing the consumption of, and markets for, United States agricultural products...
Page 57 - Policy's response to several questions on the state of applied science asked by the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Development of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics.
Page 27 - The President may furnish commodities for the purposes set forth in section 201 through such friendly governments and such agencies, private or public, including intergovernmental organizations such as the World Pood Program and other multilateral organizations in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as he deems appropriate. The President shall, to the extent practicable, utilize nonprofit voluntary agencies registered with, and approved by, the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid.
Page 27 - Except In the case of emergency, the President shall take reasonable precaution to assure that commodities furnished hereunder will not displace or interfere with sales which might otherwise be made.
Page 11 - Department and the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Page 30 - agricultural commodity" as used in this Act shall include any agricultural commodity produced In the United States or product thereof produced In the United States: Provided, however, That the term "agricultural commodity" shall not include alcoholic beverages, and for the purposes of title II of this Act, tobacco or products thereof.
Page 26 - The status of the individual must remain our primary concern. All our institutions — political, social, and economic — must further enhance the dignity of the citizen, promote the maximum development of his capabilities, stimulate their responsible exercise, and widen the range and effectiveness of opportunities for individual choice.
Page 17 - President shall — (a) take reasonable precautions to safeguard usual marketings of the United States and to assure that sales under this Act will not unduly disrupt world prices of agricultural commodities; (b) take appropriate steps to assure that private trade channels are used to the maximum extent practicable both with respect to sales from privately owned stocks and from stocks owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation...
Page 22 - ... pursuant to agreements entered into on or before December 31, 1964 and to not less than 20 per centum in the aggregate of the foreign currencies which accrue pursuant to agreements entered into thereafter...
Page 22 - Relations, if transmitted while Congress is in session, or sixty days following the date of transmittal if transmitted while Congress is not in session. Provision shall be made in sale and loan agreements for the convertibility of such amount of the proceeds thereof (not less...