The National Dairy Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session on the Report of the National Commission on Dairy Policy and S. 1869 ... April 28 and May 11, 1988, Volume 4 |
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1985 farm bill adjustments areas base billion pounds buyout CAAC California casein imports CCC purchases CHAIRMAN changes cheese Class I differentials Class I price Commission on Dairy Commission's Commodity Credit Corporation Congress consumers Dairy Farm Protection dairy farmers dairy industry dairy price support dairy products distance differentials dry milk economic eliminate family farm Farm Protection Act federal milk marketing Federal order program Food Security Food Security Act GAO report going hearing hundredweight issue KNUTSON Leahy legislation milk marketing orders milk production milk supply Minnesota National Commission National Farmers Union National Milk nonfat dry milk Northeast options OPTIONS FOR CHANGE order pricing percent price discrimination price support program problem processors production control quota recommendations reconstituted milk reduce Secretary of Agriculture Senator BOSCHWITZ Senator CONRAD Senator MELCHER supply of milk support price surplus production Thank U.S. SENATOR Upper Midwest USDA Vermont Wisconsin York
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Page 130 - Congress hereby specifically reaffirms the historical policy of the United States to foster and encourage the family farm system of agriculture in this country.
Page 110 - Agriculture has reason to believe that any article or articles are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with...
Page 111 - The data collected during the course of the Commissionts investigation indicate virtually no relationship between imports of casein and mixtures of casein and purchases of nonfat dry milk under the price-support program in recent years . Likewise, no clear relationship is apparent between imports and domestic production or consumption of nonfat dry milk.
Page 110 - Agriculture, or any agency operating under its direction, with respect to any agricultural commodity or product thereof, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from any agricultural commodity or product thereof...
Page 78 - Federation provides the vehicle through which dairy farmers and their cooperative marketing associations formulate policy on national issues which affect their ability to produce and market milk and dairy products. The Federation and its membership seek to establish conditions under which...
Page 233 - ... children's health. We have established fine objectives but we have not yet adequately met them. We must begin to close the gap between the Dietary Guidelines and their application in food programs. I know we will close that gap. The health of our future depends on the future of our children's health. I look forward to working with you and the committee in the months ahead. Thank you very much. Chairman KILDEE. Thank you very much, Madam Secretary. I know in the last few months you have heard...
Page 263 - Secretary determines 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 adequate to maintain productive capacity sufficient to meet anticipated future needs.
Page 102 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies...
Page 107 - The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate The Honorable Donald W.
Page 78 - The National Milk Producers Federation is a national farm commodity organization representing dairy farmers and the dairy cooperative marketing associations they own and operate throughout the nation.