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7 U.S.C. § 1441 — Price support levels
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The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter called the “Secretary”) is authorized and directed to make available through loans, purchases, or other operations, price support to cooperators for any crop of any basic agricultural commodity, if producers have not disapproved marketing quotas for such crop, at a level not in excess of 90 per centum of the parity price of the commodity nor less than the level provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c) as follows: (a) For corn and wheat, if the supply percentage as of the beginning of the marketing year is:The level of support shall be not less than the following percentage of the parity price: Not more than 10290 More than 102 but not more than 10489 More than 104 but not more than 10688 More than 106 but not more than 10887 More than 108 but not more than 11086 More than 110 but not more than 11285 More than 112 but not more than 11484 More than 114 but not more than 11683 More than 116 but not more than 11882 More than 118 but not more than 12081 More than 120 but not more than 12280 More than 122 but not more than 12479 More than 124 but not more than 12678 More than 126 but not more than 12877 More than 128 but not more than 13076 More than 13075
For rice of the 1959 and 1960 crops, the level of support shall be not less than 75 per centum of the parity price. For rice of the 1961 crop the level of support shall be not less than 70 per centum of the parity price. For the 1962 and subsequent crops of rice the level of support shall be not less than 65 per centum of the parity price. (b) For cotton, if the supply percentage as of the beginning of the marketing year is:The level of support shall be not less than the following percentage of the parity price: Not more than 10890 More than 108 but not more than 11089 More than 11
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The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter called the “Secretary”) is authorized and directed to make available through loans, purchases, or other operations, price support to cooperators for any crop of any basic agricultural commodity, if producers have not disapproved marketing quotas for such crop, at a level not in excess of 90 per centum of the parity price of the commodity nor less than the level provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c) as follows: (a) For corn and wheat, if the supply percentage as of the beginning of the marketing year is:The level of support shall be not less than the following percentage of the parity price: Not more than 10290 More than 102 but not more than 10489 More than 104 but not more than 10688 More than 106 but not more than 10887 More than 108 but not more than 11086 More than 110 but not more than 11285 More than 112 but not more than 11484 More than 114 but not more than 11683 More than 116 but not more than 11882 More than 118 but not more than 12081 More than 120 but not more than 12280 More than 122 but not more than 12479 More than 124 but not more than 12678 More than 126 but not more than 12877 More than 128 but not more than 13076 More than 13075
For rice of the 1959 and 1960 crops, the level of support shall be not less than 75 per centum of the parity price. For rice of the 1961 crop the level of support shall be not less than 70 per centum of the parity price. For the 1962 and subsequent crops of rice the level of support shall be not less than 65 per centum of the parity price. (b) For cotton, if the supply percentage as of the beginning of the marketing year is:The level of support shall be not less than the following percentage of the parity price: Not more than 10890 More than 108 but not more than 11089 More than 110 but not more than 11288 More than 112 but not more than 11487 More than 114 but not more than 11686 More than 116 but not more than 11885 More than 118 but not more than 12084 More than 120 but not more than 12283 More than 122 but not more than 12482 More than 124 but not more than 12581 More than 125 but not more than 12680 More than 126 but not more than 12779 More than 127 but not more than 12878 More than 128 but not more than 12977 More than 129 but not more than 13076 More than 13075
**(c)** Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section—
(1) if producers have not disapproved marketing quotas for such crop, the level of support to cooperators shall be 90 per centum of the parity price for the 1950 crop of any basic agricultural commodity for which marketing quotas or acreage allotments are in effect;
(2) if producers have not disapproved marketing quotas for such crop, the level of support to cooperators shall be not less than 80 per centum of the parity price for the 1951 crop of any basic agricultural commodity for which marketing quotas or acreage allotments are in effect;
(3) the level of price support to cooperators for any crop of a basic agricultural commodity for which marketing quotas have been disapproved by producers shall be 50 per centum of the parity price of such commodity;
(4) Repealed. Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title I, § 104(b)(3), as added Aug. 28, 1958, Pub. L. 85–835, title II, § 201, 72 Stat. 994;
(5) price support may be made available to noncooperators at such levels, not in excess of the level of price support to cooperators, as the Secretary determines will facilitate the effective operation of the program.11 So in original. The period probably should be a semicolon.
(6) Except 22 So in original. Probably should not be capitalized. as provided in subsection (c) and [section 1422 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1422&num=0&edition=prelim), the level of support to cooperators shall be not more than 90 per centum and not less than 82½ per centum of the parity price for the 1955 crop of any basic agricultural commodity with respect to which producers have not disapproved marketing quotas; within such limits, the minimum level of support shall be fixed as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section.1
(7) Where 2 a State is designated under [section 1335(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1335/e&num=0&edition=prelim), as outside the commercial wheat-producing area for any crop of wheat, the level of price support for wheat to cooperators in such State for such crop of wheat shall be 75 per centum of the level of price support to cooperators in the commercial wheat-producing area.
**(d) Rice.—** The Secretary shall make available to producers of each crop of rice on a farm price support at a level that is not less than 50 percent, or more than 90 percent of the parity price for rice as the Secretary determines will not result in increasing stocks of rice to the Commodity Credit Corporation.
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In this subchapter and subchapter II:
(1) **Agricultural Act of 1949** — The term “Agricultural Act of 1949” means the Agricultural Act of 1949 ([7 U.S.C. 1421](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1421&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), as in effect on the day before October 22, 2004.
(2) **Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938** — The term “Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938” means the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ([7 U.S.C. 1281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1281&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), as in effect on the day before October 22, 2004.
(3) **Considered planted** — The term “considered planted” means tobacco that was planted, but failed to be produced as a result of a natural disaster, as determined by the Secretary.
(4) **Contract** — The term “contract” means a contract entered into under section 518a or 518b of this title.
(5) **Contract payment** — The term “contract payment” means a payment made under section 518a or 518b of this title pursuant to a contract.
(6) **Producer of quota tobacco** — The term “producer of quota tobacco” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shared in the risk of producing tobacco on a farm where tobacco was produced or considered planted pursuant to a tobacco farm poundage quota or farm acreage allotment established under part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ([7 U.S.C. 1311](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1311&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(7) **Quota tobacco** — The term ‘quota tobacco’ 11 So in original. means a kind of tobacco that is subject to a farm marketing quota or farm acreage allotment for the 2004 tobacco marketin
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**(a) Authority for calendar years 1966 through 1970; transfer periods** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary, if he determines that it will not impair the effective operation of the program involved, (1) may permit the owner and operator of any farm for which a cotton acreage allotment is established to sell or lease all or any part or the right to all or any part of such allotment (excluding that part of the allotment which the Secretary determines was apportioned to the farm from the national acreage reserve) to any other owner or operator of a farm for transfer to such farm; (2) may permit the owner of a farm to transfer all or any part of such allotment to any other farm owned or controlled by him; Provided, That the authority granted under this section may be exercised for the calendar years 1966 through 1970, but all transfers hereunder shall be for such period of years as the parties thereto may agree.
**(b) Requisite conditions for transfer of acreage allotments** Transfers under this section shall be subject to the following conditions: (i) no allotment shall be transferred to a farm in another State or to a person for use in another State; (ii) no farm allotment may be sold or leased for transfer to a farm in another county unless the producers of cotton in the county from which transfer is being made have voted in a referendum within three years of the date of such transfer, by a two-thirds majority of the producers participating in such referendum, to permit the transfer of allotments to farms outside the county, which referendum, insofar as practicable, shall be held in conjunction with the marketing quota referendum for the commodity; (iii) no transfer of an allotment from a farm subject to a mortgage or other lien shall be permitted
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, act Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title III, § 314, 68 Stat. 905, related to 1955 wheat acreage allotment in areas where a summer fallow crop rotation of wheat was a common practice.
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The powers conferred under this chapter shall not be used to discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the Secretary from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 1920 to 1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption by decline in exports during such period, current trends in domestic consumption and exports of particular commodities, and the quantities of substitutes available for domestic consumption within any general class of food commodities. In carrying out the purposes of this chapter it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give due regard to the maintenance of a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities from domestic production adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair to both producers and consumers.
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**(a) Referendum of 1958 corn producers** Not later than December 15, 1958, the Secretary shall conduct a referendum of producers of corn in 1958 in the commercial corn-producing area for 1958 to determine whether such producers favor a price support program as provided in subsection (b) of this section for the 1959 and subsequent crops in lieu of acreage allotments as provided in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended [[7 U.S.C. 1281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1281&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and price support as provided in [section 1441 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1441&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Operative status of certain provisions** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if less than a majority of the producers voting in the referendum conducted pursuant to subsection (a) favor a price support program as provided in this subsection (b), the following provisions of law shall become inoperative:
(1) **[Section enacted [section 1329a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1329a&num=0&edition=prelim).]**
(2) **[Section enacted [section 1444b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1444b&num=0&edition=prelim).]**
(3) **[Section repealed [section 1441(d)(4) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1441/d/4&num=0&edition=prelim).]**
**(c) Cotton research program** The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to conduct a special cotton research program designed to reduce the cost of producing upland cotton in the United States at the earliest practicable date. There ar
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**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, price support at a level in excess of the maximum level of price support otherwise prescribed in this Act may be made available for any agricultural commodity if the Secretary determines, after a public hearing of which reasonable notice has been given, that price support at such increased level is necessary in order to prevent or alleviate a shortage in the supply of any agricultural commodity essential to the national welfare or in order to increase or maintain the production of any agricultural commodity in the interest of national security. The Secretary’s determination and the record of the hearing shall be available to the public.
**(b)** Effective only for the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice, the Secretary of Agriculture may provide for annual adjustments in the established prices for such program crops to reflect any change during the last calendar year ending before the beginning of each such crop year in the index of prices paid by farmers for production items, interest, taxes, and wage rates in such calendar year.
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This chapter may be cited as the “Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938”.
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**(a) Conditions of eligibility** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever base acreages are in effect for corn, the Secretary shall require, as a condition of eligibility for price support on corn, that the producer (1) devote an acreage of cropland (tilled in normal rotation), at the option of the producer, to either the acreage reserve program for corn or the conservation reserve program, equal to 15 per centum of such producer’s farm base acreage for corn, and (2) not exceed such farm base acreage for corn: Provided, That price support may be made available to any producer who does not meet the foregoing requirements at such level, not in excess of the level of price support to producers who meet such requirements, as the Secretary determines will facilitate the effective operation of the price support program. Corn acreage allotments shall not be effective for the 1956 crop.
**(b) Referendum of producers of corn** Not later than December 15, 1956, the Secretary shall conduct a referendum of producers of corn in 1956 in the commercial corn-producing area to determine whether such producers favor a price-support program as provided in subsection (c) of this section for the 1957 and subsequent crops in lieu of acreage allotments as provided in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended [[7 U.S.C. 1281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1281&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and price support as provided in [section 1441 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1441&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Restriction on acreage allotment of corn; price support level** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if two-thirds or more of the producers voting in the referen
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**(a) Basic support levels for 1961 and subsequent years** Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 1441 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1441&num=0&edition=prelim), price support to cooperators for each crop of upland cotton, beginning with the 1961 crop, for which producers have not disapproved marketing quotas shall be at such level not more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor nor less than the minimum level prescribed below as the Secretary determines appropriate after consideration of the factors specified in [section 1421(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1421/b&num=0&edition=prelim). For the 1961 crop the minimum level shall be 70 per centum of the parity price therefor, and for each subsequent crop the minimum level shall be 65 per centum of the parity price therefor: Provided, That the price support for the 1965 crop shall be a national average support price which reflects 30 cents per pound for Middling one-inch cotton. Price support in the case of noncooperators and in case marketing quotas are disapproved shall be as provided in section 1441(d)(3) and (5) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.
**(b) Additional support levels for 1964 and 1965** If producers have not disapproved marketing quotas, the Secretary shall provide additional price support on the 1964 and 1965 crops of upland cotton to cooperators on whose farms the acreage planted to upland cotton for harvest does not exceed the farm domestic allotment established under [section 1350 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1350&num=0&edition=prelim). Such additional support shall be at a level up to 15 per c
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**(a)** Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 1441 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1441&num=0&edition=prelim), beginning with the 1964 crop, price support shall be made available to producers for each crop of corn at such level, not less than 50 per centum or more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor, as the Secretary determines will not result in increasing Commodity Credit Corporation stocks of corn: Provided, That in the case of any crop for which an acreage diversion program is in effect for feed grains, the level of price support for corn of such crop shall be at such level not less than 65 per centum or more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary determines necessary to achieve the acreage reduction goal established by him for the crop.
**(b)** Beginning with the 1959 crop, price support shall be made available to producers for each crop of oats, rye, barley, and grain sorghums at such level of the parity price therefor as the Secretary of Agriculture determines is fair and reasonable in relation to the level at which price support is made available for corn, taking into consideration the feeding value of such commodity in relation to corn, and the other factors set forth in [section 1421(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1421/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
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