Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1958: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session Subcommittee on Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations, Jamie L. Whitten, Mississippi, Chairman ; Fred Marshall, Minnesota ; H. Carl Andersen, Minnesota ; William H. Natcher, Kentucky ; Walt Horan, Washington ; James B. Bowler, Illinois ; Charles W. Vursell, Illinois ; Ross P. Pope, Staff Asssitant to the Subcommitttee ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 |
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acreage activities additional agencies ANDERSEN applicant appropriation assistance authority average basis borrowers budget Chairman committee commodities Commodity Credit Corporation Congress cooperative Corporation costs cotton county supervisor credit banks crop insurance Department of Agriculture drought employees expenses experience exports Ezra Taft Benson Farm Credit Farm Credit Administration farmers farmers insured farming operations Federal financing fiscal year 1956 Foreign Agricultural Service FRETTS Government HAMIL Home Administration HORAN improvement income increase indemnities insured loans interest rates June 30 livestock loan funds Loss ratio MARSHALL MCLAIN ment million NATCHER National North Carolina Number Amount obligations Office operating loans payments percent personnel premium principal problems production credit associations Public Law record requested rural Rural Electrification Administration salary schedule SCOTT Secretary Service soil bank South Dakota soybeans statement telephone tion tobacco Total United Washington WEBSTER wheat WHITTEN
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Page 1056 - Government either as to principal or interest but are secured principally by notes and mortgages deposited as collateral with the Farm Credit Administration. These securities are considered by the market to be prime investments.
Page 1912 - The allotment to the county shall be apportioned by the Secretary, through the local committees, among the farms within the county on the basis of tillable acres, crop-rotation practices, type of soil, and topography.
Page 1909 - ... (2) The farm marketing quota for any crop of wheat shall be the actual production of the acreage planted to such crop of wheat on the farm less the farm marketing excess.
Page 1069 - The Federal intermediate credit banks finance their lending activities primarily through the issuance and sale to the investing public of consolidated collateral trust debentures and by direct borrowing from commercial banks. The operating expenses, including interest costs, are paid from the income of the banks.
Page 1069 - A stock, preferred as to assets in the event of liquidation, may be issued only to the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration on behalf of the United States and represents the investment of the United States in such bank.
Page 1511 - Bank shall be to aid in financing and to facilitate exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States or any of its Territories or insular possessions and any foreign country or the agencies or nationals thereof.
Page 1735 - The Department is represented on the Interagency Committee on Water Resources which has been established to facilitate the coordination of water and related land resource activities by the various member departments and agencies. Much of this work is done in the field.
Page 1908 - ... land, labor, and equipment available for the production of peanuts, crop-rotation practices, and soil and other physical factors affecting the production of peanuts.
Page 1932 - This is accomplished by incentive payments to eligible producers on a percentage basis reflecting the amount required to bring the national average received by all producers up to the announced incentive level. The incentive level shall not exceed 1 10 percent of parity.
Page 1909 - States on the basis of the acreage seeded for the production of wheat during the ten calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year in which the national acreage allotment is determined (plus, in applicable years, the acreage diverted under previous agricultural adjustment and conservation programs...