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Title 7 of the United States Code

Index Title 7 of the United States Code

Title 7 of the United States Code outlines the role of agriculture in the United States Code. [1]

45 relations: Agricultural Adjustment Act, Agricultural experiment station, Agricultural Market Transition Act, Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998, Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, Agriculture in the United States, American Farmland Trust, Bureau of Animal Industry, Commodity Exchange Act, Cooperative Marketing Act, Cornell University, Cotton Research and Promotion Act, Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983, Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act, Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974, Federal Plant Pest Act of 1957, Federal Seed Act, Foreign Agricultural Service, Foreign Market Development Program, Humane Slaughter Act, International Sugar Organization, National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program, National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990, National Organic Program, Office of the Law Revision Counsel, Packers and Stockyards Act, Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930, Plant Protection Act, Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970, Potato Control Law, Rural Electrification Act, Sheep Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1994, Soil Bank Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan 2010, Tobacco industry, Tobacco Inspection Act, United States Code, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Government Publishing Office, United States Grain Standards Act of 1916.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.

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Agricultural experiment station

An agricultural experiment station (AES) or agricultural research station (ARS) is a scientific research center that investigates difficulties and potential improvements to food production and agribusiness.

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Agricultural Market Transition Act

The Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA) — Title I of the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104-127) — allowed farmers who had participated in the wheat, feed grain, cotton, and rice programs in any one of the 5 years prior to 1996 to enter into 7-year production flexibility contracts for 1996-2002.

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Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929

The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, under the administration of Herbert Hoover, established the Federal Farm Board from the Federal Farm Loan Board established by the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars.

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Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998

The Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-185) was separate legislation that revised and reauthorized federally supported agricultural research, education, and extension programs from June 1998 through May 2002 (historically, these authorities have been part of an omnibus farm policy law enacted every 4 to 6 years).

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Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954

The Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (enacted July 10, 1954) is a United States federal law that established Food for Peace, the primary U.S. overseas food assistance program.

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Agriculture in the United States

Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food.

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American Farmland Trust

The American Farmland Trust (AFT) is an organization that was founded in 1980 to protect farmland and ranch land in the United States, promote environmentally sound farming practices and keep farmers on the land.

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Bureau of Animal Industry

President Chester A. Arthur signed the Animal Industry Act on May 29, 1884 creating the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), an organization that was established under the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Commodity Exchange Act

Commodity Exchange Act (ch. 545,, enacted June 15, 1936) is a federal act passed in 1936 by the U.S. Government (replacing the Grain Futures Act of 1922).

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Cooperative Marketing Act

The Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926 was a piece of agricultural legislation passed in the United States which expanded upon the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Cotton Research and Promotion Act

The Cotton Research and Promotion Act is an act passed by the United States Congress in 1966 in response to the declining market of cotton, in order to build consumer demand and "sell the story of American upland cotton".

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Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983

The Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (P.L. 98-92) amended the original Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (P.L. 98-8) to authorize multi-year funding and commodity donations from excess Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) inventories of foodstuffs for food distribution by emergency feeding organizations serving the needy and homeless (7 U.S.C. 7501 et seq.). It subsequently was amended in 1985, 1988, 1990, 1996 and 2002 under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 4126, Sec. 4204).

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Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act

The Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (FLCRA) — P.L. 88-582 (September 7, 1964, as amended) — regulated the activities of farm labor contractors, that is, agents who recruit and are otherwise engaged in the transport, housing, and employment of migratory agricultural workers.

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Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994

The Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994,, was introduced on April 14, 1994 by Eligio de la Garza (D-TX) and was signed into law on October 13, 1994 by President William J. Clinton.

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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.

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Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974

The Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 ("FNWA") established a federal program to control the spread of noxious weeds.

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Federal Plant Pest Act of 1957

The Federal Plant Pest Act of 1957 (P.L. 85-36) prohibited the movement of pests from a foreign country into or through the United States unless authorized by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Federal Seed Act

The Federal Seed Act, P.L. 76-354 (August 9, 1939), requires accurate labeling and purity standards for seeds in commerce, and prohibits the importation and movement of adulterated or misbranded seeds.

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Foreign Agricultural Service

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is the foreign affairs agency with primary responsibility for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) overseas programs—market development, international trade agreements and negotiations, and the collection of statistics and market information.

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Foreign Market Development Program

The Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (FMDP or Cooperator Program) is one of the agricultural export promotion programs operated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service.

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Humane Slaughter Act

The Humane Slaughter Act, or the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (P.L. 85-765; 7 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to decrease suffering of livestock during slaughter.

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International Sugar Organization

The International Sugar Organization is an intergovernmental organization, based in London, which was established by the International Sugar Agreement of 1968, as the body responsible for administering the Agreement.

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National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977

The United States National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 — Title XIV of the 1977 farm bill (P.L. 95-113; 7 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) -- made USDA the leading federal agency for agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs and consolidated the funding for these programs.

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National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program

The National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program was first authorized by the Fluid Milk Promotion Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6401-6417) (Subtitle H of Title XIX of P.L. 101-624, called the Fluid Act).

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National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990

The National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-445) was enacted to establish a comprehensive, coordinated program for nutrition monitoring and related research to improve the assessment of the health and nutrition of the U.S. population.

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National Organic Program

The National Organic Program (NOP) is the federal regulatory framework in the United States of America governing organic food.

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Office of the Law Revision Counsel

The Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives prepares and publishes the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

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Packers and Stockyards Act

The Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (7 U.S.C. §§ 181-229b; P&S Act) was enacted following the release in 1919 of the Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the meatpacking industry.

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Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930

The Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 (PACA) — (June 10, 1930), as amended), codified as Chapter 20A (sections 499a through 499s) of Title 7 of the United States Code, is a United States law that authorizes the regulation of the buying and selling of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables to prevent unfair trading practices and to assure that sellers will be paid promptly. According to PACA, both produce sellers and buyers must pay fees for a license in order to do business, and these license fees are the source of funding for a trust program that resolves disputes and protects sellers from non-payment when buyers become bankrupt. Amendments to the Act in 1995 (Sec.

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Plant Protection Act

The Plant Protection Act (PPA) (part of) is a US statute relating to plant pests and noxious weeds introduced in 2000.

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Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970

The Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 (PVPA), 7 U.S.C. §§ 2321-2582, is an intellectual property statute in the United States.

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Potato Control Law

The Potato Control Law (1929) was based upon an economic policy enacted by U.S. President Herbert Hoover's Federal Emergency Relief Administration at the beginning of the Great Depression.

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Rural Electrification Act

The Rural Electrification Act of 1936, enacted on May 20, 1936, provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States.

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Sheep Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1994

The Sheep Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-407) enabled domestic sheep producers and feeders and importers of sheep and sheep products to develop, finance, and carry out a nationally coordinated program for sheep and sheep product promotion, research, and information.

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Soil Bank Program

The Soil Bank Program is a federal program (authorized by the Soil Bank Act, P.L. 84-540, Title I) of the late 1950s and early 1960s that paid farmers to retire land from production for 10 years.

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the United States.

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Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan 2010

The Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་གི་ཏམ་ཁུ་དམ་འཛིན་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་ཅན་མ་; Wylie: 'Drug-gi tam-khu dam-'dzin bca'-khrims can-ma) was enacted by parliament on 16 June 2010.

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Tobacco industry

The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products.

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Tobacco Inspection Act

The Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 (popularly known as the Tobacco Inspection Act) was a 1730 English law designed to improve the quality of tobacco exported from Colonial Virginia.

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United States Code

The Code of Laws of the United States of America (variously abbreviated to Code of Laws of the United States, United States Code, U.S. Code, U.S.C., or USC) is the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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United States Government Publishing Office

The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) (formerly the Government Printing Office) is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.

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United States Grain Standards Act of 1916

The United States Grain Standards Act (USGSA) of 1916(P.L. 64-190), as amended (7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.), authorizes the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration to establish official marketing standards (not health and safety standards) for grains and oilseeds, and requires that exported grains and oilseeds be officially weighed and inspected.

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7 U.S.C., 7 USC.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_7_of_the_United_States_Code

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