CCC Export Sales: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Livestock and Grains and the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8933, November 5 and 6, 1975 |
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agency agreement agricultural commodities agricultural exports American farmer BELL BERGLAND buyers Canadian Wheat Board Chairman committee Commodity Credit Corporation competitive CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consumers costs crop D'AMOURS Dakota Farmers Union develop economic embargo establish export control export market export sales farm Federal feed grains FITHIAN Food Commission GARZA going Government governmental grain companies grain exports grain marketing grain trade grains and oilseeds grains and soybeans HARKIN hopper cars important incentive increase industry JAMES WEAVER Jerry Rees legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Livestock and Grains major marketing agent ment national food policy needs North Dakota North Dakota Farmers OPEC operating percent POAGE President producers proposed purchase question response SEBELIUS sell Soviet Union statement stocks strategic Subcommittee supply and demand Thank TOM HAGEDORN U.S. agricultural U.S. grain United Weaver bill Wheat Growers WOODWARD world grain world market
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Page 53 - Corporation snail, to the maximum extent practicable consistent with the fulfillment of the Corporation's purposes and the effective and efficient conduct of its business, utilize the usual and customary channels, facilities, and arrangements of trade and commerce.16 (15 USC 714c.) SEC.
Page 67 - 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...
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Page 21 - Schmitz et al. these efforts included: 1. HR 3042 was introduced by Congressman Weaver on March 15, 1979. This bill would amend the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act to create within the CCC a National Grain Board to provide the highest possible prices in foreign markets for American agricultural producers and to provide price and supply stability in domestic markets.
Page 53 - That nothing contained in this subsection shall limit the duty of the Corporation, to the maximum extent practicable consistent with the fulfillment of the Corporation's purposes and the effective and efficient conduct of its business, to utilize the usual and customary channels, facilities, and arrangements of trade and commerce in the warehousing of commodities...
Page 55 - Richard E. Bell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs...
Page 124 - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized, upon terms and conditions prescribed or approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, to accept strategic and critical materials produced abroad in exchange for agricultural commodities acquired by the Corporation.
Page 53 - In the Corporation's purchasing and selling operations with respect to agricultural commodities (except sales to other Government agencies), and in the warehousing, transporting, processing, or handling of agricultural commodities, the Corporation shall, to the maximum extent practicable consistent with the fulfillment of the Corporation's purposes and the effective and efficient conduct of its business, utilize the usual and customary channels, facilities, and arrangements of trade and commerce.
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