AGRICULTURE see also Food

Addresses

Plight of the Farm Workers: Cesar Chavez, 5554 [14MR]

Rocky Mount, NC, Tobacco Market Opening: Representative Valentine, 21351 [26JY]

U.S. Agricultural Development Council: Representative de la Garza, 18897 [26JN]

Advertisements

Members of Congress—don't hurt homeowners, renters, farmers, and small business! National Association of Realtors, 26652 [25SE]

Agreements

Dept. of Agriculture urgent supplemental appropriations (H.J. Res. 492): time-limitation agreement, 7192 [30MR]

Amendments

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act: enact (H.R. 4072), 5455 [14MR], 6114, 6136, 6145, 6146, 6148, 6149, 6151-6154, 6173-6176 [21MR], 6384, 6388, 6391, 6397, 6407, 6434, 6435 [22MR]

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee Act: enact (S. 1643), 20054, 20137 [29JN]

Appropriations: making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 492), 7173, 7176, 7178, 7180-7184, 7187 [30MR], 7340, 7353, 7363, 7364, 7366 [2AP], 7453, 7463, 7469, 7477, 7479, 7480, 7482, 7484, 7486 [3AP], 7667, 7672, 7684, 7716, 7741, 7742 [4AP], 8018, 8023, 8042-8045, 8047, 8051-8053, 8055, 8058, 8059, 8091-8093 [5AP]

Colorado River Basin: Dept. of Agriculture to develop and implement conservation program (H.R. 3903), 16587 [14JN]

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act: amend (H.R. 2790), 30470, 30614 [5OC]

Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act: amend (S. 2085), 13021 [21MY]

Deficit Reduction Tax Act: enact (H.R. 2163), 8699 [11AP]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 23292, 23299, 23308, 23310 [9AU], 23689, 23691, 23694, 23695, 23701, 23705, 23707, 23873, 23874 [10AU]

Export and trade policies: establish a commission to study (H.J. Res. 600), 23757, 23896 [10AU]

Grain storage facilities: bankruptcy (H.R. 5174), 6014 [20MR], 6727 [27MR]

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act: amend (H.R. 3867), 2928 [22FE]

Research programs: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 15106, 15112, 15115, 15120, 15121 [6JN], 16589 [14JN], 23342, 23343, 23348, 23352 [9AU]

Smokey Bear Week: designate (S.J. Res. 273), 28688 [2OC]

Soil Conservation Act: prohibit payment of incentives to certain producers (H.R. 3457), 11366, 11371 [8MY]

Tariff trade and customs matters: make miscellaneous changes (H.R. 2163), 8094-8249 [5AP]

Taxation: imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property (S. 2894), 23874 [10AU], 25780 [18SE]

Trade and customs matters: make miscellaneous changes (H.R. 2163), 32047, 32048 [11OC]

Water Resources Development Act: enact (S. 1739), 14124 [24MY], 19703 [28JN], 23344 [9AU], 25627 [17SE], 27173 [26SE]

Wheat program: improve (H.R. 4072), 5455 [14MR], 6114, 6136, 6145, 6146, 6148, 6149, 6151-6154, 6173-6176 [21MR], 6384, 6388, 6391, 6397, 6407, 6434, 6435 [22MR]

Analyses

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act (H.R. 4072), 5327-5329 [13MR]

Draft Legislative Proposal To Increase Authority To Refuse To Provide or To Withdraw Inspection Service, 20886 [25JY]

Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act (H.R. 5358), 29932-29934 [4OC]

Meat and Poultry Inspection Act (S. 2860), 20887 [25JY]

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Amendments (H.R. 3867), 11783 [10MY]

U.S. Participation in International Jute Organization (S. 2764), 16562 [14JN]

Appointments

Conferees: H.J. Res. 492, making urgent supplemental appropriations, 8068 [5AP]

———H.R. 4072, Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act, 6869 [28MR], 7026 [29MR]

———H.R. 5743, Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations, 23715 [10AU]

———S. 663, Soil Conservation Act, 17945 [21JN], 18018 [22JN]

Articles and editorials

Agree With Sasser on FmHA Loans, 2142 [7FE]

Almond Marketing Order Prime Example of Serving Producer, Consumer Interests, 24352 [5SE]

America as Tax Haven, 23302 [9AU]

Are We Getting a Bum Steer About Beef?, 11541 [9MY]

Australian Farmers Despair as Its Sugar Industry Hits Most Depressed Level in Over a Century, 11319 [8MY]

Beef Agreement a Step Ahead, 9557 [12AP]

Biotechnological Research in Agriculture (excerpt), 14816 [4JN]

Block Partnerships, 13483 [23MY]

Bottom Line, 9604 [12AP]

Can a Dairy Farmer in Alaska Survive the Ice-Cream Gags?, 25274 [13SE]

Cash, No Strings Attached, Instead of Food Stamps, 1717 [2FE]

Charlestown Subsidizes Oregon, 6492 [22MR]

Cheese Leads Dairy-Product Buying Rise, 21634 [31JY]

Chicken Wings of Buffalo, 20010 [28JN]

Chicken Wings Will Be King of Capitol Hill, 20010 [28JN]

Children's Readingotta, 17203 [19JN]

China and India Take Different Paths to the Same Goal—Self-Sufficiency, 1720 [2FE]

City's Hungry Depend on ``People Who Care'', 1732 [2FE]

Competitive Research (excerpt), 15104 [6JN]

Dairy Lobby—Even in Off Year, It Can't Lose for Winning, 1718 [2FE]

Dairy Surpluses, 10185 [26AP]

Debt Crisis on Farm Should Command Reaganites' Interest, 20137 [29JN]

Developing a Safe Pesticide, 11036 [3MY]

Dire Food Problems (excerpt), 26772 [25SE]

Dream Becomes a Reality—Wheat Farmer as Energy Producer, 2631 [9FE]

Easing Hunger—The World Must Make Its Choices, 1732 [2FE]

Economic Disaster Looms, Lawyer Says, 22789 [8AU]

End of the Line for Soup Kitchens Isn't Yet in Sight, 1731 [2FE]

Exports—That Sinking Feeling, 18560 [25JN]

Farm Economy Causes a Crop of Troubled Bank Loans, 6393 [22MR]

Farm Financial Stress Reported Rising, 15285 [7JN]

Farm Foreclosures Pose Legal, Land-Use Issues in State, 22788 [8AU]

Farm Officials Seeking Help of Many Others To Fight Ag-Loan Crisis, 15285 [7JN]

Farm Science Battles Against Hunger Critics, 1727-1728 [2FE]

Farm Woes Blamed for Rise—Bankruptcy Courts See Increase, 15286 [7JN]

Farm Women Are the Secret of Agriculture's Success, 9881 [25AP]

Farmer Not Budget Buster, 2142 [7FE]

Farmers and Traders, 21077 [25JY]

Farmers Should Not Look to Washington for Aid, 23305 [9AU]

Feeding the Poor Helps Feed Profits of Agribusiness, 1715-1717 [2FE]

Fiasco on the Farm, 6946 [28MR]

50-Year-Old Attitude Is No Longer Acceptable, 10825 [3MY]

Financial Collapse Still a Worry for Many Iowa Farmers, 4162 [1MR]

FmHA's List of Foreclosed Farms Multiplies Across Midlands, U.S., 15287 [7JN]

Food Is Expensive, but So Are Health Costs of Malnutrition, 1725 [2FE]

Food Plan for Needy Doesn't Always Work Out the Way It's Supposed To, 1726 [2FE]

For Poorest Countries, Goal of Self-Sufficiency Becomes a Fading Dream, 1713 [2FE]

Foreign Aid With a Human Face and a Real Security Payoff, 4717-4719 [6MR]

Foreign Investors and Bearer Bonds (excerpt), 23299 [9AU]

Free Food Bankrupts Foreign Farmers, 23197 [8AU]

Freelance Photographer Chronicles Story of the Country of Boiled Beef, 1757 [2FE]

Future of Hawaii Sugar, 23401 [9AU]

Futures Trade Here Has Worldly Impact, 3526 [27FE]

Grizzlies & Sheep & People, 29232 [3OC]

Group Buys $1.7 Billion of U.S. Bonds, Plans Bearer Form To Lure Foreigners, 23707 [10AU]

Helping the Hungry From a Station Wagon, 1726 [2FE]

High Yields Were Turning Point for Starving Millions in Asia, 1729 [2FE]

Homeless Man Finds ``How Tough Life Can Be'', 1714 [2FE]

Horn of Plenty Overflows Into Huge Surplus Stockpile, 1715 [2FE]

Hunger Abroad, Surpluses at Home, and the U.S. Farmer in the Middle, 1724-1725 [2FE]

Hunger in Dade County, 2732-2734 [21FE]

Hunger Task Force Didn't Give Much To Chew On, 1150 [31JA]

Hunger—The Crisis—``A Gray Area'', 1710 [2FE]

Hungry Marylanders Turn More and More to Private Food Programs, 1712 [2FE]

``Imputed Interest'' Rules Hit Investor Loan Assumptions, 25781 [18SE]

In Dairyland—Schooled in the Art of Concocting and the Joy of Consuming, 19407 [27JN]

India Has Conquered Mass Starvation, but Not All Its Nutritional Problems, 1728 [2FE]

Indonesia Unlocks Its Food Problems; Key—Distribution, 1722 [2FE]

Interaction Can Be Ruthless or Humane, 1719 [2FE]

Is Uncle Sam a Cruel Landlord?, 16450 [14JN]

Japanese Divided on the Decontrol of Beef Imports, 2852 [22FE]

Japanese Import Policies (excerpt), 2845 [22FE]

Kalo Hineman—The Farmer in the CFTC, 11291 [8MY]

Legislators Agree on Need for Conservation, 20762 [24JY]

Life—To Defend It Means To Feed the Hungry, 25689 [17SE]

Like Its Cattle, Japan Pampers Beef Raisers, 2849 [22FE]

Long-Time Editor To Retire, 5520 [14MR]

Marylanders Agree—Washington Must Help, 1717 [2FE]

Midwestern Ghost Towns, 22057 [1AU]

Navajo Managers Reinforce Tradition, 235 [24JA]

New Staff of Life Developed in Texas, 23365 [9AU]

``No'' to Organic Farming, 6400 [22MR]

Nutritional Status of U.S. Population, 23685 [10AU]

Options Trading—Is It for the Farmer, 11293-11295 [8MY]

Options Trading—The New Price Insurance, 11292 [8MY]

Organic Farming (sundry), 23380, 23382, 23383, 23384 [9AU]

Pay Heed to the Prairie, 28785 [2OC]

PIK Bonanza Dries Up at Tulare Lake, 13458 [22MY]

Policing the Pits, 11291 [8MY]

President's Real 1985 Farm Policy, 14543 [30MY]

Probe Finds FmHA Abuses, 4152 [1MR]

Reaganomics—An Economic Comparison, 6493 [26MR]

Recovery? What Recovery?, 6546-6550 [26MR]

Region That Could Feed Itself Plagued by ``Vast Undernourishment'', 1715 [2FE]

Roth Seeks To Counter Protectionist Pressures, 4729 [6MR]

Sale of Grain to Soviets a Bright Spot in Relations, 30279 [4OC]

Soliciting Tax Evasion, 23301 [9AU]

Speaking Out—Dan Burt—On USDA Marketing Orders, 320 [24JA]

Stone Farm Sold After 284 Seasons To Pay Bank, 6394 [22MR]

Tax Law's Effect on Agriculture Under Scrutiny, 20018 [29JN]

Teamwork Helps Prevent Vendor Abuse, 236 [24JA]

There Is a Strong and Growing Case for Looking at Agricultural Tax Shelters, 20018 [29JN]

Third World Countries Offer Opportunity for U.S. Farm Export Growth, 7875 [4AP]

Time To Coordinate Tax and Agricultural Policy, 20018 [29JN]

To Pineville, KY, 228 [24JA]

Trade Deficit Punishes Farm Economy, 25758 [18SE]

Trade-Off—What Science Gains, Nature Can Take Away, 1728 [2FE]

Trading Beef, 10267 [26AP]

Trading With the Enemy, 3774 [29FE]

U.S. Deficit, Argentine Debt Squeeze Farmers in Dilemma, 20137 [29JN]

U.S.-Soviet Grain Trade—Benefits for Both Sides, 32552 [12OC]

Uncle Sam's Tax Haven, 23301 [9AU]

Uproar Rises Over Big U.S. Payments in Farm Subsidies, 13457 [22MY]

Virginia Backs Firm's Research, Lets It Exceed Dust Standard, 12571 [16MY]

Water Bill Could Help Chevron, Handful of California Farmers, 28488 [2OC]

Water Into Pork, 28489 [2OC]

We Still Need Insurance for Elevator Failures, 15282 [7JN]

Wet Fields Dampen Farm Hopes for Recovery From Disastrous 1983, 11721 [10MY]

Widespread Ills Found in Forests in Eastern U.S., 3337 [27FE]

Woman Speaks for Maine in Washington, 4198 [1MR]

World's Best Bargain, 1373 [1FE]

Bills and resolutions

Agricultural and mechanical arts colleges: eliminate racial segregation (see S. 2681)

Agricultural Credit Assistance Act: loan assistance (see S. 2967)

Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act: milk (see H.R. 6161)

Agricultural Patent Reform Act: enact (see S. 2950)

Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act: appropriations (see H.R. 4928)

Agriculture Act: amend (see H.R. 5876)

Animal husbandry: responsible and effective use of antibiotics (see H.R. 6370)

Antitrust actions: rights of certain sellers of agricultural products (see S. 2835)

Antitrust law: sellers of agricultural products (see H.R. 5264)

Asparagus: reduction of duty on certain (see S. 2896)

Bankruptcy: grain storage facilities (see H.R. 5174)

Banks and banking: loans to farmers and ranchers (see H. Con. Res. 247)

———regulatory agency examiners to exercise caution and restraint in adversely classifying loans made to farmers and ranchers (see S. Con. Res. 99)

Brussels sprouts: duty (see H.R. 4825)

Bureau of Reclamation: reimbursement of certain investigation costs (see S. 2410)

Canada: additional duties on swine and pork products (see H.R. 5206)

———egg yolks tariff (see S. 2809)

———exports of pork (see S. Res. 431)

———negotiations on imports of pork products (see H. Res. 590)

Capital gains: relief for certain insolvent taxpayers (see S. 3095)

Caribbean nations: multinational commission to address long-term social and economic problems (see H. Res. 605)

CCC: contracts for storage of commodities (see H.R. 5275)

———long-term contracts for storage of commodities (see S. 2453)

———promoting export of commodities by facilitating the use of barter for materials produced in foreign countries (see H.R. 6377)

Commission on Climate and Agriculture (Select): establish (see S. 2789)

Commission on trade and export policies: changes in enrollment of H.J. Res. 600 (see H. Con. Res. 349)

Conservation reserve and agricultural forestation programs (see H.R. 4730)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: credit assistance (see S. 2967)

———limit maximum interest rate applicable to loans (see H.R. 5769)

Corn gluten feed: EEC request for consultations to renegotiate duty-free treatment (see H. Res. 496)

Credit: assistance to certain borrowers for meeting increases in real estate mortgage loan payments (see H.R. 5837)

———guarantee of certain outstanding loans modified by private lenders (see S. 2765; H.R. 5854)

Credit transactions: preempt State usury ceilings on business, agriculture, and consumer loans (see H.R. 5679)

Dairy products: amend tariff classification of recently developed high protein foods (see S. 2883)

———promote marketing competition (see H.R. 5587)

———restructuring milk marketing order and subsidy system (see H.R. 5804)

Development programs: making appropriations (see H.R. 5743)

EEC: opposing duties on U.S. soybeans and soybean products (see S. Res. 479)

———proposed restrictions on U.S. products (see S. Res. 402), 15746 [12JN]

El Salvador: concern of Congress on the imminent lapsing of phase III of land reform program (see H. Con. Res. 327)

Emergency feed program: consideration of nutritive value and suitability of feed available for particular types of livestock and poultry (see H.R. 6385)

Emergency loans: period for accepting applications and criteria used in determining value of collateral (see S. 2379)

Energy and water resources development: making appropriations (see H.R. 5653)

Erodible lands: penalty for cultivating (see H.R. 6395)

———removal from production of commodities (see H.R. 5200)

Famine: Presidential fund to provide emergency food assistance abroad (see H.R. 6265)

Farm and crop base acreages: dependable and rational method to determine (see S. 2608)

Farm Credit Act: improve management of production credit associations (see H.R. 6033)

Farmers: adequate flow of affordable credit (see S. Con. Res. 130)

Farmers Home Administration: 5-year prohibition against employees acquiring interest in certain lands or real estate (see S. 2406; H.R. 5123)

———economic emergency loan progam (see S. Res. 333)

Farming syndicates: tax treatment of capital expenditures (see H.R. 5262)

Farmlands: protection of value and reduction of surplus commodity production (see H.R. 5837)

FCIC: prevented planting insurance (see H.R. 5976)

Federal aviation program: representation of agricultural and natural resource products industries (see H.R. 5376)

Federal intermediate credit banks: annual reports (see H.R. 6033)

Feed grain and wheat: price support program for 1986-89 crops (see H.R. 6395)

Feed grains: acreage limitation and land diversion programs for 1985 crop (see H.R. 6413)

———determination of acreage base for 1984 reduction program (see H.R. 4755)

Food: emergency action relative to pesticide residues which present an imminent hazard to public health (see S. 3076)

———tax deduction for charitable contributions by noncorporate taxpayers (see S. 2432)

Food for Peace Day (see S.J. Res. 306)

Foreign countries: Presidential fund to provide emergency food assistance (see H.R. 6265)

Foreign trade: bartering commodities to acquire strategic materials (see H.R. 6395)

———commission to study and make recommendations on export policies, programs, and practices (see S.J. Res. 319; H.J. Res. 600)

———developing overseas markets for U.S. commodities and protecting CCC assets (see H.R. 6377)

———expand markets through increased targeting of CCC export funds (see H.R. 4743)

———expansion of markets for commodities (see S. 2477; H.R. 5198)

———fast-track treatment of injurious imports (see H.R. 5449)

———promote increased transportation of bulk commodities on U.S.-flag vessels (see H.R. 6222)

———promoting export of commodities owned or acquired by CCC by facilitating the use of barter for materials produced in foreign countries (see H.R. 6377)

———report to Congress on barriers in overseas markets (see S. 2655)

———restore U.S. competitive position in world markets (see S. 2304; H.R. 4973)

4-H Clubs: milk diversion program's membership project (see H.R. 5286)

FRS: board representation (see S. Res. 349)

Future Farmers of America: milk diversion program's membership project (see H.R. 5286)

Grain Standards Act: extend effective period of certain amendments (see S. 2546)

Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indian Tribes: budget waiver for consideration of S. 1967, irrigation project (see S. Res. 399)

Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of Fort Belknap Community: compensation for irrigation construction expenditures (see H.R. 6294)

Gypsy moths: 5-year research program and controlling assistance to States (see S. 2638)

Hazelnuts: duty (see S. 2429)

———increase duty (see H.R. 5871)

High Plains States: budget waiver for consideration of H.R. 71, study of potential for ground water recharge (see S. Res. 361)

Hilltop and Gray Goose irrigation projects, South Dakota: availability of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program pumping power (see S. 2861; H.R. 6022)

Honey industry: coordinated research, promotion, and consumer information program (see S. 2857)

———marketing campaign (see H.R. 5358)

Hunger: CCC surplus food to combat malnutrition abroad (see S. 2477)

International Jute Organization: U.S. participation (see S. 2764)

Investment tax credit: dairy farming property (see H.R. 4701)

Joint Operating Commission for Food Irradiation Treatment: establish (see S. 2652; H.R. 5605)

Jojobas: clarify farm syndicate rules with respect to inedible fruits and nuts (see H.R. 5199)

Lamb meat: import quotas (see H.R. 5987)

Land and Water Conservation Fund Act: amend (see H.R. 5090)

Livestock: assistance to producers in economic distress (see H.R. 5947)

Livestock and poultry: consideration of nutritive value and suitability of feed available for emergency feed program (see H.R. 6385)

Loans: 60-day approval/disapproval notification to applicants (see H.R. 4817)

———forgo foreclosure of certain, and adjust repayment terms consistent with borrower's perspective cash flow (see H.R. 6386)

———temporary program to reduce effective interest rates paid by farmers and ranchers (see S. 3002)

Meat and poultry: authority of Sec. of Agriculture to refuse to provide or withdraw inspection service at processing plants (see S. 2860)

Migrant and community health centers: assistance programs (see H.R. 5559, 5602)

Migrant education programs: improve effectiveness (see S. 2871)

Migrants: educational programs (see H.R. 6153)

Milk: marketing (see H.R. 6161)

———prompt payments by handlers to producers (see H.R. 5037)

Milk diversion program (see H.R. 4611)

Milk Protein Act: enact (see H.R. 6252)

National Cheeseburger Week (see H.J. Res. 627)

National Honey Week (see S. Res. 410)

National Meat Week (see S. Res. 396)

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: enact (see S. 3022)

Nongrain feed ingredients: EEC request for consultations to renegotiate duty-free treatment (see H. Res. 496)

NSF: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 5780)

Office International de la Vigne et du Vin: U.S. participation (see S. 2583)

Packers and Stockyards Administration: remove jurisdiction over processed poultry products (see S. 2781)

Patents: restore term for period of Federal premarket testing and review of certain pesticides and animal drugs (see H.R. 5529)

Pesticides: emergency action in case of imminent hazard (see H.R. 4939)

———emergency action relative to chemical residues on food which present an imminent hazard to public health (see S. 3076)

———revise procedures for changes in tolerances and exemptions (see H.R. 5495)

Pesticides and animal drugs: restore patent term for period of Federal premarket testing and review requirements (see H.R. 5529)

Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program: availability of pumping power to Hilltop and Gray Goose irrigation projects (see S. 2861; H.R. 6022)

Poland: economic assistance (see S. 3000; S. 6268; H.R. 6318)

Poultry industry: remove jurisdiction of Packers and Stockyards Administration over processed products (see S. 2781)

———require prompt payment by certain processors (see S. 2997)

Rabbits: mandatory meat inspection (see H.R. 5069)

Railroads: freight rates for shippers and protection against monopolistic policy (see S. 2417)

Reclamation Reform Act's repayment contracts (see S. 2238)

Shelled nuts: increase duty on certain (see H.R. 5871)

Soil or water conservation: investment tax credit for certain expenditures (see H.R. 5615)

Soviet Union: additional purchases of grain (see S. Res. 440)

Tariff: appropriate classification of recently developed dairy products (see S. 2883)

———hazelnuts (see S. 2429)

Taxation: clarify application of imputed interest and interest accrual rules in case of sales of real property (see S. 2894)

———clarify application of imputed interest rates (see H.R. 6172)

———credit for recycling chemical containers (see H.R. 6138)

———credit for sale of property at its value to small or beginning farmers (see H.R. 5300)

———deduction for charitable contributions by noncorporate taxpayers (see S. 2432)

———investment credit for soil or water conservation expenditures (see H.R. 5615)

———limit to the national median family income the amount of farm loss which may be deducted against nonfarm income (see S. 2833)

———prohibit imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property (see S. 2822)

———treatment of leases between family members for purposes of the special estate tax valuation (see H.R. 5070)

———update exemptions from unemployment taxes (see H.R. 5918)

Textile fiber and wool products: improve labeling (see H.R. 5638)

Tobacco industry: prohibit import of products which have been treated with domestically prohibited pesticides (see H.R. 6418)

Tractor parts: duty-free treatment (see H.R. 5454)

U.S. Grain Standards Act: extend effective date of amendments contained in section 155 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (see H.R. 5221)

Ukraine: commission to study 1932-33 famine (see S. 2456)

W. G. Huxtable Pumping Station, AR: indemnity payments by Corps of Engineers (see S. 2404)

Wheat: improve program (see S. 2328)

Wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice: advance deficiency payments for 1984-85 crops in disaster areas (see H.R. 5134)

White Sands Missile Range, NM: refer relief bill (S. 2761) for ranchers to Court of Claims (see S. Res. 405)

———relief for ranchers (see S. 2761)

Women in Agriculture Week (see S.J. Res. 279; H.J. Res. 554)

World Food Day (see S.J. Res. 332; H.J. Res. 556)

Books

``Renewing American Industry'': Paul Lawrence and Davis Dyer (excerpt), 15093 [6JN]

Briefs

U.S.-flag vessels cargo preference requirements: amicus curiae, 4057 [1MR]

Cloture motions

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act: enact (H.R. 4072), 6141 [21MR]

Wheat program: improve (H.R. 4072), 6141 [21MR]

Court decisions

Farmers Home Administration farm credit practices, 4768 [7MR]

Documents

EDB Controversy, 2338-2347 [8FE]

Examples

Application of imputed interest rates effect on home sale under H. Con. Res. 328, 20014 [29JN]

Explanations

Water Resources Development Act (S. 1739)—Abdnor amendment, 23921 [10AU]

Factsheets

Animal Health Achievements: Dept. of Agriculture, 11540 [9MY]

Californian Activities, 6472 [22MR]

Letters

Adequate farm credit: several Members of Congress, 25656 [17SE]

Agricultural commodity programs: Senator Helms, 4079 [1MR]

Agricultural export and trade policies: National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, 23754 [10AU]

Agricultural policy: First State Bank, La Moure, ND, 6413 [22MR]

———Nebraska constituent, 6392 [22MR]

———North Dakota Dept. of Agriculture, 6414 [22MR]

Agricultural Productivity Act (H.R. 2714): American Farm Bureau Federation, 1154 [31JA]

———National Cattleman's Association, 1154 [31JA]

———National Pork Producers Council, 1154 [31JA]

———Orville G. Bentley, 361 [25JA]

Agricultural Productivity Act (S. 1128): National Governors' Association, 6399 [22MR]

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act—haying and grazing set-aside acres: Utah Cattlemen's Association, 6401 [22MR]

Agricultural taxation policy: sundry, 17603 [20JN]

Application of imputed interest rates effect on home sale under H. Con. Res. 328: Senator Melcher, 20014 [29JN]

Auto domestic content legislation: Iowa Corn Growers Association, 969 [31JA]

Avian influenza epidemic: 25 Members of the House, 2271 [8FE]

Ban on use of strychnine as rodenticide: Allen Mooney, 5949 [20MR]

Budgetary impact of Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act (H.R. 4072): Dept. of Agriculture, 6108 [21MR]

Colorado River Basin salinity control, 30471, 30474 [5OC]

Congressional action on the Water Resources Development Act (S. 1739): several Members of Congress (Dear Colleague), 28977 [3OC]

Consolidated Family Farms' plan for cooperative ownership of agricultural land: Senator Pressler, 23312 [9AU]

Critical Agricultural Materials Act (H.R. 2733): Botanical Resources, 10457 [1MY]

———University of California, 10457 [1MY]

Does food for peace stunt growth?, 23199 [8AU]

Economic emergency loan program: Senator Sasser, 2141 [7FE]

Economic plight of farmers: Nan Milliken, 27954 [1OC]

———(sundry excerpts), 26160 [19SE]

Exemption of blended credit from cargo preference requirement: Fertilizer Institute, 913 [30JA]

Family farming: Roger Drevlow, 30764 [5OC]

Farm credit: several Senators, 32099 [11OC]

Farm loss (excerpt), 26309 [20SE]

Farmers Home Administration assistance funds allocation: by, 7175 [30MR]

———several Senators, 22786 [8AU]

———Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies, 7174 [30MR]

Federal farm programs: Sam M. McElroy, 27801 [28SE]

Federal fleet purchase of methanol-powered vehicles: Sec. of Energy Hodel, 29160 [3OC]

Federal highway funding programs: Mons Teigen, Montana Stockgrowers Association, 4283 [2MR]

Foreclosure on agricultural loans: sundry Senators, 10686 [2MY]

Grain warehouse inspection functions: Senator Eagleton, 15282 [7JN]

How to stop dairy overproduction: Jack E. Wood, 5870 [19MR]

Impact of budget deficit on U.S. farm economy: American Soybean Association, 22876 [8AU]

Implementation of Dept. of Agriculture emergency farm loan program: Senator Huddleston, 628, 629 [26JA]

———Senators Boren and Huddleston, 629 [26JA]

Improvements to port facilities: Jack W. Mace, for the Hampton Roads Maritime Association, 25649 [17SE]

ITC rulings relative to agricultural producers: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 26024 [19SE]

Japanese agricultural trade policy: Yoshiaki Iwao, 2845 [22FE]

National Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy: sundry agricultural groups, 17855 [21JN]

Payment-in-Kind Land Diversion Program: Ag-One Seeds, 27807 [28SE]

———Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 6390 [22MR]

———Committee on Appropriations, 6391 [22MR]

———Dept. of Agriculture, 6390 [22MR]

———Fertilizer Institute, 27807 [28SE]

———Representative Skelton, 27806 [28SE]

———Sec. of Agriculture Block, 6146 [21MR], 6391 [22MR], 9171, 9172 [12AP]

``Power Play on the Potomac'' response: Bob Bergland for REA, 24595 [7SE]

Proposed tariff reduction on asparagus: California Asparagus Growers' Associations, Inc., 31007 [9OC]

Reallocation of funding for commodity supplemental feeding program: sundry, 23709 [10AU]

Regulation of water use: Sec. of the Interior Clark, 1036 [31JA]

Repeal of withholding tax on U.S. interest earned by foreigners: Sec. of the Treasury Regan, 23302 [9AU]

———Senator Chafee, 23303 [9AU]

———Senator Dole, 23301, 23303 [9AU]

Soil conservation (H.R. 3457): sundry organizations, 11363 [8MY]

Soviet grain purchase ceilings: Senator Pressler, 24680 [10SE]

Trade agreement with Republic of China: William E. Brock, 5487 [14MR]

Trade barrier laws relative to milk industry: H. P. Hood, Inc., 23288 [9AU]

———Milk Distributors Association of the Philadelphia Area, Inc., 23289 [9AU]

———New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture, 23288 [9AU]

———New Jersey Milk Industry Association, Inc., 23288 [9AU]

———Public Citizen, Congress Watch, 23289 [9AU]

Trade Remedies Reform Act: Sec. of Agriculture Block, 21290 [26JY]

U.S. beef exports to Japan: Bonnie Kuraoka, 9243 [12AP]

———Embassy of Japan, 9242 [12AP]

———sundry Representatives to William E. Brock III, 3044 [22FE]

———U.S. businessman, 220 [24JA]

———U.S. Trade Representative Brock, 9242 [12AP]

U.S. food assistance and agricultural development: AID, 23198 [8AU]

———Bureau for Food for Peace and Voluntary Assistance, 23198 [8AU]

———Dept. of State, 23199 [8AU]

———Representative Hamilton, 23197 [8AU]

U.S. Grain Standards Act amendments: Dept. of Agriculture, 8585 [10AP]

U.S. participation in International Jute Organization: W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., 16562 [14JN]

U.S. participation in the Office International de la Vigne et du Vin: Dept. of State, 9664 [24AP]

U.S.-flag vessels cargo preference requirements: Fertilizer Institute, 4057 [1MR]

Water development programs: President Reagan, 931 [30JA]

Water resources development: Charles S. Robb, Governor of Virginia, 26502 [21SE]

———'84 Water Resources Action Coalition, 20026 [29JN]

———Hampton Roads Maritime Association, Inc., 26503 [21SE]

———J. Robert Bray, 26503 [21SE]

———several Members of Congress, 10723 [2MY]

Wheat program: several Members of Congress, 2920 [22FE]

Wheat program participation: Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, Sumner County chapter, 3674 [28FE]

White Sands Missile Range, NM, land relief: Alice L. Cox, 16450 [14JN]

———Dept. of the Army, 16450 [14JN]

———Laura E. McKinley, 16449 [14JN]

Lists

Agricultural Trade and Export Policy Commission members, 27942 [1OC]

Agricultural workers' conditions and denial of worker rights in foreign countries, 23072 [9AU]

Committee on Governmental Affairs witnesses during hearings on export and trade policies, 23754 [10AU]

Emergency money agricultural applications: Arkansas, 6147 [21MR]

Export Administration Act amendments (S. 979): Boren amendment supporters, 6103 [21MR]

Organizations opposing feed grain target price reduction, 23306 [9AU]

Organization supporting S. 1128, Agricultural Productivity Act, 6400 [22MR]

Organizations supporting agricultural conservation of erodible lands, 23293 [9AU]

Organizations supporting Soil Conservation Act, 11093 [7MY]

Recipients of the American Farmer Degree recipients, 922 [30JA]

Supporters of H.J. Res. 600, to establish a commission to study agricultural export and trade policies, 23755 [10AU]

Memorandums

U.S.-Flag Vessels Cargo Preference Requirements: Dept. of Transportation, 4058-4060 [1MR]

Memorials of legislature

California, 1237 [1FE], 7868 [4AP], 8422 [9AP], 9758 [24AP], 20702 [24JY], 23323 [9AU], 29612 [3OC], 29853, 29860, 29861 [4OC], 30205 [4OC]

Colorado, 14689 [31MY]

Hawaii, 10877 [3MY]

Idaho, 5691 [15MR], 7374 [2AP]

Iowa, 10345 [30AP], 10875 [3MY]

Kansas, 10876 [3MY]

Pennsylvania, 8006 [5AP], 8423 [9AP], 14689 [31MY], 16157 [13JN]

Vermont, 3588 [28FE], 4347 [5MR]

Virginia, 12438 [16MY]

Wisconsin, 121 [23JA], 879, 880 [30JA]

Motion

Dairy products: extend patent numbered 3,376,198 relating to the production of antibodies in milk (S. 1711), House amendments, 29287 [3OC]

Papers

Public Role in the Dairy Economy, Alden C. Manchester, 23285 [9AU]

Petitions

Bulk cargo: National Association of State Depts. of Agriculture, 122 [23JA]

Economic conditions experienced by Iowa's farmers: Iowa Bankers Association, 10875 [3MY]

Misuse of pesticides: Newspaper Guild, Washington, DC, 10773 [2MY]

U.S. farm policy: Muhlenberg County (KY) Farm Bureau, 24938 [11SE]

Polls of opinion

Agricultural policy: South Dakota, 16154 [13JN]

Preamble

Food for peace program originating legislation (1954), 15047, 15049 [6JN]

Press releases

Block extends farm programs sign-up: Dept. of Agriculture, 4079 [1MR]

Improving loan making capabilities: Dept. of Agriculture, 23704 [10AU]

Proclamation

Poultry and Egg Month in North Carolina: James B. Hunt, Governor of North Carolina, 9054 [11AP]

Questions and answers

Agricultural trade deficit, 26245 [20SE]

Colorado River Basin salinity control, 30474 [5OC]

Food and Agriculture Policy: Representative de la Garza, 25509 [14SE]

Remarks in House

Acid Rain Deposition and Control Act: enact (H.R. 3400), 19994 [28JN]

Africa: relief for drought victims, 1176 [31JA]

Agricultural borrowers: Federal bank regulatory reform (H. Con. Res. 247), 1182 [31JA]

Agricultural commodities: 2-price system, 15100 [6JN]

Agricultural Export Commission: establish, 23957 [10AU]

Agricultural Export Trade Equity Act: introduction (H.R. 4743), 1481 [2FE]

Agricultural labor: unemployment tax (H.R. 5918), 18477 [22JN]

Agricultural marketing orders: issues, 24352 [5SE]

Agricultural Patent Reform Act: enact (H.R. 5529), 10260 [26AP]

Agricultural policies, 26063 [19SE]

Agricultural Productivity Act: enact (H.R. 2714), 358-371 [25JA], 452 [26JA]

Agricultural programs: funding, 9396-9404 [12AP]

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act: enact (H.R. 4072), 8647 [10AP]

———enact (H.R. 4072), appointment of conferees, 6869 [28MR]

———enact (H.R. 4072), conference report, 7528-7540 [3AP]

———enact (H.R. 4072), permission to file conference report, 7305 [2AP]

Agriculture Patent Reform Act: enact (H.R. 6034), 24556 [6SE]

Agriculture productivity research and extension program: establish (H.R. 2714), 358-371 [25JA], 452 [26JA]

Alaska: provide for food stamp pilot program for rural areas (H.R. 5181), 5870 [19MR]

Bankruptcy: legislation relative to Missouri farmers, 7905 [5AP]

Barter Promotion Act: enact, 29638 [3OC]

Budget: impact of deficit, 24314 [5SE]

Buffalo, NY, Chicken Wing Festival Week: observance, 20010 [28JN]

Bureau of Animal Industry: commemoration, 14038 [23MY]

California: Nation's leading State, 6471 [22MR]

Canadian swine and pork products: imposition of additional duties (H.R. 5206), 6295 [21MR]

———U.S. imports (H. Res. 590), 26923 [25SE]

Capital Legal Foundation: critique of Reagan administration, 320 [24JA]

Carbon dioxide: investigate ecological impact, 23017 [8AU]

CCC: limit amount dairy processors can sell, 10731 [2MY]

China, People's Republic of: sale of milk products, 11619 [9MY]

Clemson University: remove ``public use'' restrictions on certain lands (H.R. 5122), 5584 [14MR]

Competitive grants program: funding, 15104 [6JN]

Conservation: prohibit payments for commodities produced on highly erodible land (S. 663), appointment of conferees, 18018 [22JN]

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: amend (H.R. 5854), 16619 [14JN]

Corn gluten and soybeans: trade restrictions (H. Res. 496), 10728 [2MY]

Corncob pellets: heating experiment at Piqua, OH, Springcreek School, 26522 [24SE]

Cotton dust: health and safety standards, 12570 [16MY]

Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act: amend (S. 2085), 13020 [21MY]

Credit: interest rates, 26309 [20SE]

Dairy diversion program: continue, 10731 [2MY]

Dairy farmers: eliminate investment tax credit (H.R. 4701), 1158 [31JA]

———tribute, 16340 [14JN]

Dairy industry: allow antitrust suits against agricultural cooperatives (H.R. 5804), 15767 [11JN]

Dairy Month: observance, 16340 [14JN]

Dairy production reduction program: inclusion of 4-H and FFA members, 6927 [28MR]

Dairy program: sign-up rate, 2672 [9FE]

Dairy surplus: increases, 10185 [26AP]

———packaging, 21954 [1AU]

Dan River Inc.: cotton dust health and safety standards, 12570 [16MY]

Delaware River: funding for the Merrill Creek reservoir, 24174 [10AU]

Developing countries: U.S. export policies, 7874 [4AP]

Domestic content legislation, 19421 [27JN]

Domestic food programs: funding, 15098, 15103 [6JN]

Economic conditions: reform agricultural policies to improve, 16748 [15JN]

———status, 24291 [5SE]

Economic recovery: status, 22235 [2AU], 23580 [9AU]

EDB: guidelines for tolerance limits, 1891 [6FE], 2337 [8FE]

Emergency disaster loans: eligibility requirements for advance payments for wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice (H.R. 5134), 1383 [1FE], 5578 [14MR]

Export and trade policies: establish a commission to study (H.J. 600), 22437 [6AU]

———establish a commission to study (H.J. Res. 600), authorizing changes in enrollment (H. Con. Res. 349), 23579 [9AU]

———establish commission to study, 17725 [21JN]

———U.S. policy, 18897 [26JN]

Family Farm Protection Act: introduction (H.R. 5300), 6992 [29MR]

Family farmers: economic status, 30314 [5OC]

Family farms: preserve, 10731 [2MY]

Family farms and businesses: estate tax provisions (H.R. 5070), 5081 [8MR]

Farm animal production: establish a special commission to investigate intensive (H.R. 3170), 21367 [26JY]

Farm Credit Administration: review operations, 3553 [28FE]

Farm programs: improve, 30000 [4OC]

Farmers: credit programs, 26063 [19SE]

———economic plight, 2957 [22FE], 16748 [15JN], 24291 [5SE], 26160 [19SE], 27315 [26SE]

Farmers Home Administration: economic emergency loan program funding (H. Res. 433), 2166 [7FE]

———interest rates, 26309 [20SE]

Farmer's loan applications: procedures for approving (H.R. 4817), 2434 [9FE]

Feathers and down: Japanese Government elimination of tariff on U.S. produced, 11962 [10MY]

Ferraro, Representative: vote on Farm Bureau legislation, 26063 [19SE]

Filberts: tariff on substandard imports (H.R. 5871), 19459 [27JN]

Floraculture: funding for statistical report, 15101 [6JN]

Food Aid and Export Promotion Act: enact (H.R. 4973), 3978 [29FE]

Food and nutrition programs: funding, 6041 [20MR]

Food for Peace Day: designate (H.J. Res. 572), 12846 [17MY], 20411 [29JN]

———designate (S.J. Res. 306), 20300 [29JN]

Food prices: impact of bad weather, 5491 [14MR]

Food-for-Peace program: funding, 17008 [19JN]

Foreign worker program, 16350-16411 [14JN]

Forests: implement research program to save, 3336 [27FE]

Frank, Representative: visit to Iowa farms, 20182 [29JN]

Grain elevator bankruptcies, 4376 [5MR], 4378 [6MR], 15282 [7JN]

———bankruptcy (H.R. 5174), 5857 [19MR], 6045-6047, 6060 [20MR], 6188-6249, 6284 [21MR], 6321 [21MR], 6503, 6505 [26MR], 6797 [27MR], 7271 [30MR], 10597 [1MY]

———bankruptcy (H.R. 5174), appointment of conferees, 7249 [30MR], 17227 [20JN], 17710 [21JN]

———bankruptcy (H.R. 5174), conference procedure, 6959, 6960 [29MR]

———bankruptcy (H.R. 5174), conference report, 20224-20233 [29JN]

———special order schedule, 2991 [22FE]

H-2 workers: proposed regulation changes, 16350-16411 [14JN]

Hazelnut industry: enhance, 17001 [18JN]

Highly Erodible Land Conservation Act: enact (S. 663), 11376 [8MY]

Hilltop and Gray Goose Irrigation Districts, South Dakota: make available the Pick-Sloan Missouri basin program pumping power, 21064 [25JY]

Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act: enact (H.R. 5358), 7889 [4AP], 20653 [24JY], 20657 [30JY]

Human Needs and World Security Act: enact (H.R. 4440), 4717 [6MR]

Hunger Relief Act: enact (H.R. 5151), 21956 [2AU]

Ice Cream Month (H.J. Res. 543), 15359 [7JN]

Immigration Reform Act: enact, 26057 [19SE]

International Fund for Agricultural Development: funding, 25196 [12SE]

Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center, MS: designate (H.R. 5513), 26564, 26565 [24SE]

Japan: agricultural imports, 6959 [29MR]

———citrus agreement, 9612 [12AP]

Jojoba beans: clarify that farm syndicate tax rules apply (H.R. 5199), 6069 [20MR]

Leonardtown, MD: Maryland Pride in Tobacco Festival, 21368 [26JY]

Livestock Producer Disaster Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 5947), 19447 [27JN]

Loan programs: funding, 15085, 15096, 15100 [6JN]

Mandatory Fish Inspection Act: enact (H.R. 6094), 23186 [8AU]

Migratory fishermen: expand the definition (H.R. 5633), 11696 [9MY]

Mondale, Walter F.: economic policies, 24792 [11SE]

NASA: studies from space, 30213 [4OC]

National 4-H Week: observance, 30715 [5OC]

National Agricultural Soil Protection Act: introduction (H.R. 5200), 5958, 6011 [20MR]

National Agriculture Day: observance, 5491 [14MR], 5640 [15MR], 5955, 5957, 5958, 5998-6005 [20MR]

National Cheeseburger Week: designate (H.J. Res. 627), 20737 [24JY]

National ethanol energy policy: create (H.R. 5801), 15518 [7JN]

National Future Farmers of America Week: observance, 2832 [21FE]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: enact (H.R. 4684), 1149, 1176 [31JA], 27814 [28SE]

National Raisin Week: observance, 11465 [8MY]

Office International de la Vigne et du Vin: U.S. membership (S. 2583), 31351 [10OC]

Omaha, NE, stockyards: anniversary observance, 19421 [27JN]

Pecos, TX, cantaloupe: tribute, 22312 [2AU]

Perishable crop farmers: protect, 26057 [19SE]

———use of domestic and foreign labor, 12830 [17MY]

Pesticide containers: tax cedit for recycling (H.R. 6138), 24155 [10AU]

Pesticide Tolerance Emergency Authority Act: enact, 3294 [23FE]

Pierce, Ray: tribute, 5520 [14MR]

Piqua, OH: corncob heating experiment at Springcreek School, 26522 [24SE]

Price-support programs: funding, 15099, 15100, 15103 [6JN]

Productivity: improve (H.R. 2714), 358-371 [25JA], 452 [26JA]

Public lands: provide assistance to groups volunteering to plant tree seeds (H.R. 2838), 28080-28094 [1OC]

Rabbit meat: provide for mandatory inspection of domesticated (H.R. 5069), 5112 [8MR]

Research programs: funding, 15081, 15086, 15091, 15094, 15095, 15096, 15101 [6JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 14815 [4JN], 15080-15128 [6JN], 15978 [12JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5743), appointment of conferees, 26056 [19SE]

Rural areas: economic recovery status, 23580 [9AU]

———loans to businesses which have been impacted by payment-in-kind program, 5217 [13MR]

Rural Development Reorganization Act: enact (H.R. 5024), 4537 [5MR]

Rural electrification: policy and proposals, 31771 [10OC]

Rural health care systems: prospective payment regulations, 22537 [6AU]

SBA: El Nino disaster assistance program, 26735 [25SE]

Seller financing: interest provisions (H.R. 6172), 24178 [10AU]

Smokey Bear Week: designate (S.J. Res. 273), 28688 [2OC]

Soil Conservation Act: enact (S. 663), 32585 [12OC]

———prohibit payment of incentives to certain producers (H.R. 3457), 10966 [3MY], 11093-11101 [7MY], 11362 [8MY], 11365 [15MY]-11374 [8MY]

Soil or water conservation: investment tax credit (H.R. 5615), 11337, 11444 [8MY]

Spencer, Bonnie: tribute, 30719 [5OC]

Stoneville, MS: Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center (H.R. 5513), 9977 [25AP]

Sugar loan program: issues, 9626 [12AP]

Sweet potatoes: encourage purchases, 10033 [25AP]

Timber industry: economic plight, 27641 [28SE]

Tobacco: prohibit that grown or processed with pesticides or chemicals from import into the U.S. (H.R. 6418), 30728 [5OC]

Trade Remedies Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4784), 21076 [25JY]

Tropicana Products: sponsors of Special Olympics programs, 24131 [10AU]

U.S. exports, 21710 [31JY]

U.S. Grain Standards Act: extend effective date of certain amendments contained in Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (H.R. 5221), 13019 [21MY]

Unfit mammals: allow disposal by donating to humane organizations (H.R. 5965), 19992 [28JN]

University of Missouri: funding to initiate an agriculture policy institute, 15115-15120 [6JN]

Wheat program: improve (H.R. 4072), 3195 [23FE], 8647 [10AP]

———improve (H.R. 4072), appointment of conferees, 6869 [28MR]

———improve (H.R. 4072), conference report, 7528-7540 [3AP]

———improve (H.R. 4072), permission to file conference report, 7305 [2AP]

Women in Agriculture Week: designate (H.J. Res. 554), 23027 [8AU]

Remarks in Senate

Agricultural and mechanical arts colleges: eliminate racial segregation (S. 2681), 12719 [17MY]

Agricultural commodities: Federal barter program status, 4064 [1MR]

———price support program, 3405 [27FE], 3673 [28FE], 4066-4070, 4078, 4113-4119, 4132 [1MR]

———prohibit incentive payments for those produced on highly erodible land, 23292-23299 [9AU]

———trade embargoes, 3768-3781 [29FE], 4133-4135 [1MR], 23705-23706 [10AU]

Agricultural credit: assure adequate, 25655 [17SE]

———assure adequate (S. Con. Res. 130), 21222 [26JY], 21518 [30JY]

Agricultural Credit Assistance Act: introduction (S. 2967), 24392 [6SE]

Agricultural Debt Restructuring Act: enact (S. 2765), 16562 [14JN]

Agricultural embargoes: economic impact, 240 [24JA]

Agricultural exports: expand programs (S. 2304), 2518 [9FE]

———policy, 11714 [10MY]

———trade report (S. 2655), 11714 [10MY]

Agricultural loans: ensure caution in making adverse classifications (S. Con. Res. 99), 6172 [21MR]

Agricultural losses: tax status, 9147 [12AP]

Agricultural options: trading, 11290 [8MY]

Agricultural Patent Reform Act: introduction (S. 2950), 23833, 23836 [10AU]

Agricultural policy: establish national, 10825 [3MY]

Agricultural Productivity Act: enact (S. 1128), 22869 [8AU], 23379 [9AU]

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act: enact (H.R. 4072), 5322-5323 [13MR], 5734, 5781-5786 [15MR], 5923-5931 [20MR], 6102-6118, 6134-6141, 6145-6156 [21MR], 6375, 6384-6402, 6405-6416 [22MR], 8609 [10AP]

———enact (H.R. 4072), conferees appointed, 7025 [29MR]

———enact (H.R. 4072), conference report, 7366-7372 [2AP]

———enact (H.R. 4072), debate procedure, 5838, 5840 [19MR]

Agricultural research: funding for Stuttgart, AR, rice facility, 23359 [9AU]

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee Act: enact (S. 1643), 2142 [7FE], 20054-20055 [29JN]

———enact (S. 1643), placed on calendar, 18731 [26JN]

Agricultural structures: depreciation allowance, 9173 [12AP]

Agricultural Trade and Export Policy Act: enact, 27942 [1OC]

AID: supplemental food aid to Africa, 2520 [9FE]

Alaska: development of dairy industry, 25274 [13SE]

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: control of agricultural pests, 23689-23694 [10AU]

Appropriations: making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 492), 7173, 7184, 7187-7191 [30MR], 7340-7366 [2AP], 7452-7488 [3AP], 7667-7723 [4AP], 8017-8070 [5AP]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 492), appointment of conferees, 8068 [5AP]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 492), time-limitation agreement, 7189 [30MR]

Arkansas: compensate farmers for flood damage (S. 2404), 4915 [8MR]

Arkansas rice casserole: recipe, 6402 [22MR]

Asparagus: reduction of duty on certain (S. 2896), 21629 [31JY]

Bonds: register sales to qualify for tax-exempt status, 23299-23303 [9AU], 23707 [10AU]

Budget: reduce deficit, 2141 [7FE]

Buice, Bob: tribute, 26294 [20SE]

Buildings: tax depreciation, 15356 [7JN]

Canada: agricultural exports, 6383 [22MR], 26246 [20SE]

———egg yolks tariff (S. 2809), 19645 [28JN]

———export of pork (S. Res. 431), 23341 [9AU]

Capital assistance: extend, 25001 [12SE]

Capital gains: relief for certain insolvent taxpayers (S. 3095), 32034 [11OC]

CCC: agricultural export credit guarantees, 7176 [30MR]

———provisions governing storage of agricultural commodities (S. 2453), 5935 [20MR]

CFTC: administrative role of Kalo Hineman, 11290 [8MY]

———administrative role of Susan Phillips, 11290 [8MY]

Charities: tax treatment of food contributions (S. 2432), 5741 [15MR]

China, Republic of: trade agreement, 5487 [14MR]

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act: amend (H.R. 2790), 30470-30477, 30633 [5OC], 30884 [9OC]

Commission on Climate and Agriculture (Select): establish (S. 2789), 17852 [21JN]

Consolidated Family Farms: cooperative ownership of agricultural land scheme, 23312 [9AU]

Contract poultry growers: promote prompt payments from processors (S. 2997), 25617 [17SE]

Corps of Engineers: authorize payment to certain landowners for damage to property (S. 2974), 24602 [7SE]

———direct sale of storage space in Rathbun Lake, IA (S. 3046), 28402 [2OC]

Cotton: acreage diversion limitation, 6152 [21MR]

———boll weevil eradication program, 23261 [9AU]

Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act: amend (S. 2085), 10682 [2MY], 23808 [10AU]

Credit: assure adequate, 22611-22614 [7AU]

———assure adequate (S. Con. Res. 130), 22810 [8AU]

———guarantee of certain outstanding loans modified by private lenders (S. 2765), 16562 [14JN]

Critical Agricultural Materials Act: enact (H.R. 2733), 10455-10458 [1MY]

Dairy products: extend patent numbered 3,376,198 relating to the production of antibodies in milk (S. 1711), House amendments, 29286 [3OC]

———improved economic outlook, 21634 [31JY]

———study market entry barriers, 23263, 23285-23292 [9AU]

———tariff classification of recently developed high protein foods (S. 2883), 21532 [30JY]

Deficit Reduction Act: enact (S. 2516), 19714 [28JN]

———implementation of economic emergency farm loan program, 628 [26JA]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 23285-23312, 23359, 23361, 23363, 23365 [9AU], 23648, 23677-23695-23715 [10AU], 28383 [2OC], 31794 [11OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5743), appointment of conferees, 23715 [10AU]

Dept. of Defense: funding for methanol development, 28896 [3OC]

Dept. of the Interior: funding, 31799-31802 [11OC]

Disaster loans: agricultural eligibility, 8072-8074 [5AP]

Domestic Commodity and Food Assistance Act: enact (S. 17), 223 [24JA]

Drought Assistance Equity Act: introduction (S. 2379), 4161-4165 [1MR]

Economic conditions: comparing Carter/Reagan administrations, 31137 [10OC]

Economic emergency loan program: funding obligations (S. Res. 333), 1785-1787 [3FE], 2141 [7FE]

Economy: agricultural policy, 15283 [7JN], 20569 [24JY]

———importance to, 28831-28833 [3OC]

EEC: duties on U.S. soybeans and soybean products (S. Res. 479), 32036 [11OC]

———proposed restrictions on U.S. products (S. Res. 402), 15857, 15858 [12JN]

Emergency food and shelter: tribute to organizations providing (S. Res. 292), 223 [24JA]

EPA: ban on use of strychnine as rodenticide, 5949 [20MR]

Export and trade policies: establish a commission to study (H.J. Res. 600), 23754-23761 [10AU]

———establish a commission to study (H.J. Res. 600), held at desk, 22659 [7AU]

———establish a commission to study (H.J. Res. 600), technical corrections, 23761 [10AU]

———U.S. trade deficit, 11714 [10MY], 26245-26248 [20SE]

Family farms: preserve, 8700 [11AP], 23694-23695-23701 [10AU]

Farm and crop base acreages: method to determine (S. 2608), 10368 [30AP]

Farm credit: long-term solutions, 32095-32098 [11OC]

Farm policies: assessment, 4153-4156 [1MR]

Farmers: credit equity (S. Con. Res. 130), 20135 [29JN]

Farmers Home Administration: allocation of assistance funds, 7173-7176 [30MR], 23701-23705 [10AU]

———farm credit practices, 4767 [7MR]

———farmland loan policy conflict of interest, 4152 [1MR]

———farmland loan policy conflict of interest regulations (S. 2406), 5127 [12MR]

———funding, 22785 [8AU]

Farmland: preventing cultivation on highly erodible lands, 31783 [11OC]

Farmland Protection Policy Act: implement, 17746-17747 [21JN], 22825 [8AU]

FCIC: Golden Fleece Award recipient, 20471 [23JY]

———improve program, 23387 [9AU]

Federal Reserve Board: agricultural representation (S. Res. 349), 2542 [9FE]

Filberts: duty, 5453 [14MR]

Food: emergency action relative to pesticide residues which present an imminent hazard to public health (S. 3076), 30589 [5OC]

———labeling requirement (S. 2368), 3804 [29FE]

Food for Peace Day (S.J. Res. 306), 15047-15049 [6JN], 16654 [15JN], 17191 [19JN], 22332 [3AU]

Food for Peace program: anniversary, 22331 [3AU], 22873 [8AU]

Food Safety Modernization Act: enact (S. 1938), 5770 [15MR]

Food services: exempt certain central kitchen facilities from Federal inspection requirements (H.R. 5223), S. 2256 indefinitely postponed, 28264 [2OC]

———exempt certain central kitchen facilities from Federal inspection requirements (S. 2256), 1792 [3FE]

———exempt certain central kitchen facilities from Federal inspection requirements (S. 2256), H.R. 5223 passed in lieu, 28263 [2OC]

———exempt certain central kitchen facilities from Federal inspection requirements (S. 2256; H.R. 5223), 28263-28264 [2OC]

Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, MT: funding for Milk River irrigation project, 28346 [2OC]

Future Farmers of America: Florida American Farmer Degree recipients, 922 [30JA]

Gasohol: Federal highway tax exemption, 9206-9208 [12AP]

Geese: increase tariff (S. 3070), 30565 [5OC]

Glandless cottonseed: new strain, 23365 [9AU]

Grain storage facilities bankruptcy (H.R. 5174), 6727 [27MR]

———payment-in-kind program compensation, 6154 [21MR], 6384 [22MR]

Grizzly bears: approach to protection, 28346 [2OC], 29232 [3OC]

Gypsy Moth Control Act: introduction (S. 2638), 11257-11259 [8MY]

Hawaii: economic condition of sugar industry, 23401 [9AU]

Hilltop and Gray Goose irrigation projects, South Dakota: availability of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program pumping power (S. 2861), 20888 [25JY]

Honey: provide for expansion of markets (H.R. 5358), 29931-29935 [4OC]

———provide for expansion of markets (H.R. 5358), placed on calendar, 27785 [28SE]

Honey industry: coordinated research, promotion, and consumer information program (S. 2857), 20485 [23JY]

Hunger: impact of Presidential policies on assistance programs, 2732 [21FE]

———national and international impact, 1710 [2FE]

Imports: impact of auto domestic content provisions, 968 [31JA], 2837 [22FE]

Impro Products, Inc.: extend patent (S. 1711), 10092 [26AP]

International Jute Organization: U.S. participation (S. 2764), 16562 [14JN], 27178 [26SE]

Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center, Stoneville, MS: designate (H.R. 5513), 28928 [3OC], 29919 [4OC]

Japan: agricultural imports, 2837, 2844-2852 [22FE], 3468 [27FE], 3719 [29FE], 9241 [12AP]

———require elimination of nontariff barriers to U.S. beef (S. Con. Res. 87), 219 [24JA], 2837, 2844-2852 [22FE]

Joint Operating Commission for Food Irradiation Treatment: establish (S. 2652), 11537 [9MY]

Kelly, Dorothy: tribute, 4197 [1MR]

Keystone Mills: settlement of claims against Dept. of Agriculture, 29144 [3OC]

Levitt, George: tribute, 12738 [17MY]

Louisiana red beans and rice: recipe, 6405 [22MR]

Meat and Poultry Inspection Act: introduction (S. 2860), 20885 [25JY]

Meatpacking industry: enforcement of sanitation rules, 31783 [11OC]

Methanol Vehicle Incentives Act: introduction (S. 3053), 29159 [3OC]

Migrant education programs: improve effectiveness (S. 2871), 21181 [26JY]

Milk: humanitarian donations of ultra-high temperature processed, 6151 [21MR], 6397-6399 [22MR]

Mines and mining: impact of subsidence on agricultural lands, 28310 [2OC]

Motor fuels: tax status, 8701 [11AP]

Moyer, Roger: settlement of claims against Dept. of Agriculture, 29144 [3OC]

Mushrooms: tariff treatment of products in transit (S. 2877), 21196 [26JY]

Naill, John, Jr.: tribute, 29228 [3OC]

National Agriculture Day: observance, 5890-5894, 5950 [20MR]

National Animal Health Week: designate (H.J. Res. 526), 13250 [22MY]

———designate (S.J. Res. 292), 11540 [9MY]

———designate (S.J. Res. 292); indefinitely postponed, 13250 [22MY]

National Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy: establish (H.J. Res. 319), 17854, 17857, 17859 [21JN]

National Garden Week: designate (S.J. Res. 143), 2728 [21FE], 8729 [11AP]

National Ice Cream Day and Month: observance, 19407 [27JN]

National Meat Week: designate (S. Res. 396), 15051 [6JN], 16654 [15JN]

Nutrition programs: funding, 29729 [4OC]

Office International de la Vigne et du Vin: U.S. participation (S. 2583), 9663 [24AP], 27177 [26SE]

Organic farming: production potential, 23379 [9AU]

Payment-in-kind program: crop diversion, 2244 [8FE], 22749-22752 [8AU]

———disaster loan determination, 6146-6147 [21MR], 6388-6391 [22MR]

———payment limitation, 9171 [12AP]

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act: amend (H.R. 3867), 9360 [12AP], 11782-11783 [10MY]

Pesticides: emergency action relative to chemical residues which present an imminent hazard to public health (S. 3076), 30589 [5OC]

Pick-Sloan Missouri River basin program: make available pumping power, 28869 [3OC]

Poland: authorize foreign assistance for agricultural activities (S. 3000), 25773 [18SE], 26222 [20SE], 26415 [21SE]

Potash industry: predatory trade practices, 7005 [29MR]

Poultry industry: avian influenza epidemic, 238 [24JA], 2271 [8FE]

———impact of foreign subsidies on competition, 22783-22785 [8AU]

———remove jurisdiction of Packers and Stockyards Administration over processed products (S. 2781), 17586 [20JN]

Presidential Task Force on Agricultural Credit: establish, 184-185 [24JA]

Price supports: economic implications, 5950 [20MR]

Reagan, President: agricultural policy, 11497-11501 [9MY], 13480 [23MY], 16154 [13JN], 22626 [7AU]

———economic predictions, 2141 [7FE]

Real estate: imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property, 26652 [25SE]

———imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property (S. 3032), 27504 [27SE]

Rice: acreage diversion limitation, 6402, 6405-6407 [22MR]

Rural areas: economic characterization, 6546 [26MR]

Soil and water conservation: investment tax credit, 9173, 9234, 9235 [12AP], 15356 [7JN]

Soil Conservation Act: enact (S. 663), appointment of conferees, 17945 [21JN]

———enact (S. 663), House amendments, 17943-17945 [21JN]

Soviet Union: grain purchase ceilings, 24680 [10SE]

———modify grain agreement, 25063 [12SE]

———modify grain agreement (S. Res. 440), 24780 [11SE]

———Reagan administration trade policy, 21097 [26JY]

Sugar industry: impact of import quotas on Latin American economy, 18560 [25JN]

———support program, 11318 [8MY], 18560 [25JN]

Surplus agricultural commodities: expansion of markets (S. 2477), 6541 [26MR]

Table wine: duty, 28975 [3OC]

Tariff trade and customs matters: make miscellaneous changes (H.R. 2163), 8078 [5AP]

———make miscellaneous changes (H.R. 2163), amendment printing procedure, 8082 [5AP]

Task Force on Agricultural Credit: establish (S. Res. 287), 10683-10687 [2MY]

Taxation: agricultural policy, 17603 [20JN]

———imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property, 19707 [28JN], 20014-20016, 20074-20079 [29JN], 27657 [28SE], 27912 [29SE]

———imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property (S. 2822), 19661 [28JN]

———imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property (S. 2894), 21623-21625 [31JY], 25780 [18SE]

———limit to the national median household income the amount of off-farm income which could be sheltered by farm losses (S. 2833), 20017 [29JN]

Temporary Agricultural Interest Rate Reduction Act: introduction (S. 3002), 25775 [18SE]

U.S. Grain Standards Act: extend effective date of certain amendments contained in Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (H.R. 5221), 27786 [28SE]

———extend period amendments remain in effect (S. 2546), 8585 [10AP]

U.S.-flag carriers: cargo preference requirements, 913 [30JA]

University of Wisconsin: high quality of dairy products, 19407 [27JN]

Washington State Lentil Day: observance, 1344 [1FE]

Water: regulations governing use (S. 2238), 1036 [31JA]

———resources development, 26502 [21SE]

Water Resources Development Act: enact (S. 1739), 10629, 10723 [2MY], 13551 [23MY], 14126 [24MY], 15870 [12JN], 19703 [28JN], 20026 [29JN], 23344 [9AU], 23921 [10AU], 25647 [17SE], 26289 [20SE], 26506 [21SE], 27173 [26SE], 28976 [3OC]

———enact (S. 1739), referral, 12434 [16MY]

Wheat and feed grains: target prices, 23303-23309 [9AU]

Wheat Improvement Act: introduction (S. 2328), 2919 [22FE]

Wheat program: improve (H.R. 4072), 5734 [15MR], 5923-5931 [20MR], 6102-6118, 6134-6141, 6145-6156 [21MR], 6375, 6384-6402, 6405-6416 [22MR], 8609 [10AP]

———improve (H.R. 4072), conferees appointed, 7025 [29MR]

———improve (H.R. 4072), conference report, 7366-7372 [2AP]

———improve (H.R. 4072), debate procedure, 5838, 5840 [19MR]

———participation, 3673 [28FE]

———set-aside provisions, 4066-4070, 4113-4119, 4132 [1MR], 22749-22752 [8AU]

White Sands Missile Range, NM: settlement of land claims (S. 2761), 16449, 16453 [14JN]

———settlement of land claims (S. 2761), refer to Court of Claims (S. Res. 405), 16449, 16453 [14JN], 26304 [20SE]

Wineinger, Ron: tribute, 30632 [5OC]

Women in Agriculture Week: designate (H.J. Res. 554), 26488 [21SE], 27954 [1OC]

———designate (S.J. Res. 279), 9881, 9882 [25AP], 11251 [8MY]

Women Involved in Farm Economics: tribute to Arkansas chapter, 27954 [1OC]

World Food Day: designate (S.J. Res. 332), 20132 [29JN], 21827 [1AU]

Reports

Agricultural Patent Reform Act Restoring Patent Grant Term for Certain Products: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 6034) (H. Rept. 98-1122), 28143 [1OC]

Agricultural Research Funding: Grace Commission (excerpt), 15106 [6JN]

Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5743) (H. Rept. 98-809), 14517 [30MY]

———Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5743) (S. Rept. 98-566), 21167 [26JY]

———committee of conference (H.R. 5743) (H. Rept. 98-1071), 26718-26724 [25SE], 26901 [25SE]

———Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (excerpt concerning rice research), 23359 [9AU]

Assist Organizations Volunteering To Plant Trees: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (H.R. 2838) (S. Rept. 98-596), 24252 [5SE]

Assistance to Poland: Committee on Foreign Relations (S. 3000), 26695 [25SE]

Authorize Appropriations for Research, Development, and Demonstrations: Committee on Environment and Public Works (S. 2702) (S. Rept. 98-473), 13257 [22MY]

Authorize Development of Conservation Program in Colorado River Basin: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 3903) (S. Rept. 98-482), 14112 [24MY]

Bankruptcy Judges, Laws, Grain Storage, Collective-Bargaining Agreements: Committee of Conference (H.R. 5174) (H. Rept. 98-882), 20206-20224, 20330 [29JN]

Bankruptcy Law Relative to Grain Storage Facilities: Committee on Rules (H. Rept. 98-626), 6013 [20MR]

Budget Waiver for Consideration of H.R. 71, Study of Potential for Ground Water Recharge on the High Plains States: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 7075 [29MR]

Budget Waiver for Consideration of H.R. 5221, Extend Effective Date of Grain Standards Act: Committee on the Budget (S. Res. 446), 27498 [27SE]

Commission To Study and Make Recommendations on Commodity Export Policies, Programs, and Practices: Committee on Agriculture (H.J. Res. 600) (H. Rept. 98-956), 22473 [6AU]

Competitive Research Grants: House Committee on Appropriations (excerpt), 15112 [6JN]

Conference: H.R. 4072, Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act (H. Rept. 98-646), 7306-7314 [2AP]

Dept. of Agriculture Appropriations: committee of conference (H.J. Res. 492) (H. Rept. 98-792), 12839 [17MY]

Dept. of Agriculture's Long-Term Grain Storage Mismanaged Savings Plan: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 98-954), 22473 [6AU]

Domestic Content Legislation: Iowa Corn Growers Association, 969 [31JA]

EPA's Pesticide Registration Activities' Problems: Committee on Government Operations (H.R. 98-1147), 30459 [5OC]

Extend Period Where Amendments to U.S. Grain Standards Act and Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act Remain Effective: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 5221) (H. Rept. 98-756), 12321 [15MY]

Family Farm Integrity: Committee on Ways and Means (1976 excerpt), 8700 [11AP]

Farm Policy: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (excerpts), 23307 [9AU]

Farmers Home Administration Financial Statement: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 98-1111), 27653 [28SE]

Financing Deficit With Foreign Monies: CBO (excerpt), 10685 [2MY]

Grain Standards Act Amendments Contained in Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (H.R. 5221) (S. Rept. 98-617), 25773 [18SE]

———Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. Res. 446; H.R. 5221), 25773 [18SE]

Housing and Urban Rural Recovery Act, Technical Corrections: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. 2819), 19643 [28JN]

Impact of Mining Subsidence on Farmland: Bureau of Mines (excerpt), 28311 [2OC]

National Garden Week (S.J. Res. 143): Committee on the Judiciary, 8084 [5AP]

National Meat Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 396), 16559 [14JN]

National Nutrition Monitoring Program: Committee on Science and Technology (H.R. 4684) (H. Rept. 98-1076), 26901 [25SE]

National Safety in the Workplace Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 258), 10878 [3MY]

Poultry—North Carolina's Billion Dollar Food Industry: Marc A. Johnson, 9053 [11AP]

Production of Surplus Crops on Irrigated Land Served by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 27797 [28SE]

Recovery of Costs Associated With Cotton Classing Services to Producers: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (S. 2085) (S. Rept. 98-395), 9252 [12AP]

Remedies for Prevention of Soil Erosion on Agricultural Lands (H.R. 3457): Committee on Rules (H. Res. 493) (H. Rept. 98-727), 10570 [1MY]

Sec. of Agriculture and CCC Export Authority Extension To Include Fish and Fish Products: Committee on Foreign Relations (H.R. 3255) (H. Rept. 98-1042), 26379 [20SE]

Study of Potential for Ground Water Recharge on the High Plains States: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. Rept. 98-372), 7075 [29MR]

Task Force on Agricultural Credit: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (S. Res. 287) (S. Rept. 98-397), 9252 [12AP]

U.S. Embargoes on Agricultural Exports—Implications for the U.S. Agricultural Industry and U.S. Exports: ITC (excerpt), 241-242 [24JA], 3779 [29FE]

Ukrainian Famine, Commemorate: Committee on Foreign Relations (H. Con. Res. 111), 25015 [12SE]

Wheat Program Improvement: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (H.R. 4072), 5130 [12MR]

———Committee of Conference (H. Rept. 98-646), 7315 [2AP]

Women in Agriculture Week: Committee on the Judiciary (H.J. Res. 554), 26275 [20SE]

———Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 279), 10878 [3MY]

World Food Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 332), 23324 [9AU]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Agriculture—Questions and Answers, 426 [25JA]

Resolutions by organizations

Farm policies for 1984: Farm Bureau, 4156 [1MR]

Japanese agricultural trade: Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association, 2847 [22FE]

Tribute to John Naill, Jr.: Farm Credit Administration, 29228 [3OC]

Rulings of the Chair

Research programs: making appropriations (H.R. 5743), 15120, 15121 [6JN]

Statements

Administration of Federal Nutrition Programs: Representative Whitten, 29729 [4OC]

Agricultural and Economic Policies: Vince Rossiter, 15283 [7JN]

Agricultural Investments and Taxation (sundry excerpts), 20017 [29JN]

Agricultural Policy Forecast: Sec. of Agriculture Block, 13480-13483 [23MY]

Agricultural Trade Policy: Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations (excerpt), 2845 [22FE]

———Senator Dole, 23758 [10AU]

Agriculture Legislation: Representative Skelton, 3953 [29FE]

Agriculture Research Funds (excerpt), 15107 [6JN]

Biotechnology (sundry), 15104 [6JN]

Developing a Comprehensive Dialog and Review of Agriculture and Food Programs: Sec. of Agriculture Block, 10826-10828 [3MY]

Domestic Sugar Industry: Robert H. Hughes for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 11318 [8MY]

Family Farms Preservation: OMB (excerpt), 23694 [10AU]

Farm Debt: Representative Virginia Smith, 15086 [6JN]

Farm Real Estate Market: Judy Doeracher, 4163 [1MR]

Food Donations for Africa: John Becker, 26772 [25SE]

———sundry excerpts, 26772 [25SE]

Food for Peace Program: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954), 15047 [6JN]

———Hubert H. Humphrey, 15047, 15049 [6JN]

Food for Peace Program Anniversary: E. Saouma, U.N., 22333 [3AU]

———Joseph V. Reed, 22873 [8AU]

———President Reagan, 22332 [3AU]

———Representative de la Garza, 22334 [3AU]

———Sec. of Agriculture Block, 22332 [3AU]

———Senator Dole, 22335 [3AU]

Foreign Assistance for Polish Agricultural Activities (S. 3000): Alfred L. Abramowicz, 26223 [20SE]

———Edward J. Derwinski, 26224 [20SE]

———Joseph F. Mytych, 26223 [20SE]

———Myra Lenard, Polish American Congress, 26224 [20SE]

Grain Elevator Bankruptcies: Dept. of Agriculture, 6387 [22MR]

Imputed Interest Rates: Dept. of the Treasury (excerpt), 20078 [29JN]

Labor Rights of Agricultural Workers, 23072 [9AU]

Need for Action: World Resources Institute, 19989 [28JN]

Nutritional Status of U.S. Population: Bailus Walker, Jr., 23686 [10AU]

Real Estate Syndicators: Mitchell Hochberg (excerpt), 20076 [29JN]

U.S. Exports: Nelson Denlinger (excerpt), 4603 [6MR]

———Roger Asendorf (excerpt), 4604 [6MR]

U.S.-Flag Vessels Cargo Preference Requirements: Dept. of Transportation, 4062 [1MR]

Water Resources Development Act: Senator Stafford, 15870 [12JN]

World Agriculture and International Trade Policy: Donald E. Nordlund, 23210 [8AU]

———Terry Gips, for the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, 22869 [8AU]

Studies

Mandatory Fish Inspection (H.R. 6094): Library of Congress (excerpt), 23186 [8AU]

Small Reclamation Projects Act (H.R. 5539)—Excess Crop Restrictions, 27796 [28SE]

Summaries

Acreage Reduction and Diversion Programs, 4114 [1MR]

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act (H.R. 4072), 5326 [13MR], 6109 [21MR]

Commission To Study Agricultural Export and Trade Policies (H.J. Res. 600), 23760 [10AU]

Critical Agricultural Materials Act (H.R. 2733), 10457 [1MY]

Determination of Farm and Crop Base Acreages (S. 2608), 10369 [30AP]

Establish a Special Commission To Investigate Intensive Farm Animal Production (H.R. 3170), 21367 [26JY]

Food Aid and Export Market Promotion Act, 2519 [9FE]

Promotion of Food Irradiation as Postharvest Treatment (S. 2652), 11539 [9MY]

Provisions Governing CCC Storage of Agricultural Commodities (S. 2453), 5936 [20MR]

U.S. participation in the Office International de la Vigne et du Vin (S. 2583), 9664 [24AP]

Wheat Improvement Act (S. 2328), 2919 [22FE]

Tables

Agricultural credit assistance, 24392 [6SE]

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act (H.R. 4072): impact of commodity program provisions, 6108, 6109 [21MR]

CCC inventories: 1983, 4195 [1MR]

Commodities in which California leads the U.S., 6472 [22MR]

Concentration of soil erosion, 1977 (selected States), 11096 [7MY]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations (H.R. 5743): nondefense discretionary authority, 23709 [10AU]

Domestic content endangered export list, 2838 [22FE]

Emergency supplemental appropriations (H.J. Res. 492): committee status, 8062 [5AP]

Farm price support savings, 9397 [12AP]

Farmers Home Administration staffing levels comparison, 23705 [10AU]

Land ownership in U.S., 10692 [2MY]

Nonirrigated and irrigated cropland in 17 Western States, 20889 [25JY]

Rice facts, 6406 [22MR]

Soil erosion, 11371 [8MY]

Soil survey acreages, 1983, by State, 11095 [7MY]

Soils, 11370 [8MY]

Stockpile materials in deficit: 1983, 4064 [1MR]

Supermarket milk price survey summary, 23288 [9AU]

U.S. agricultural trade partners, 23705 [10AU]

U.S. imports from Canada of pork products, 6383 [22MR]

White Sands Missile Range land payments, 16451 [14JN]

WIC program participation, 23683, 23684 [10AU]

Testimonies

Canadian Actions Regarding the Sugar Import Quota Program: Stanley Gettel, 17218 [19JN]

Hilltop and Gray Goose Irrigation Districts, South Dakota, 21064 [25JY]

Nonsmoker Relief Act (H.R. 4955): Representative C. W. Bill Young, 3540 [27FE]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 247, Federal bank regulatory agency handling of agricultural borrowers, 1182 [31JA]

H. Con. Res. 349, authorizing changes in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 600 to establish a commission to study agriculture-related trade and export policies, 23579 [9AU]

H.J. Res. 319, establish National Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy, 17856 [21JN]

H.J. Res. 492, Dept. of Agriculture urgent supplemental appropriations, 7464 [3AP]

H.J. Res. 554, Women in Agriculture Week, 23027 [8AU]

H.J. Res. 600, establish a commission to study U.S. export and trade policies, 22437 [6AU]

H.R. 2714, Agricultural Productivity Act, 367 [25JA]

H.R. 4072, Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act, 5324-5326 [13MR], 5929-5931 [20MR]

H.R. 4701, eliminate investment tax credit for dairy farmers, 1159 [31JA]

H.R. 5070, estate tax provisions regarding family farms and businesses, 5082 [8MR]

H.R. 5174, bankruptcy law amendments, 6226-6239 [21MR]

H.R. 5199, clarify the farm syndicate tax rules apply to jojoba beans, 6069 [20MR]

H.R. 5206, imposition of additional duties on Canadian swine and pork products, 6295 [21MR]

H.R. 5221, extend effective date of certain amendments to the U.S. Grain Standards Act contained in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 13019 [21MY]

H.R. 5358, Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act, 20653 [24JY]

H.R. 5513, Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center, MS, 26564 [24SE]

H.R. 6418, prohibit imports of tobacco grown or processed with pesticides or chemicals into U.S., 30728 [5OC]

S. 663, Highly Erodible Land Conservation Act, 11376 [8MY]

S. 979, amend Export Administration Act, 4141-4151 [2MR]

S. 1643, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service committee operations, 20056 [29JN]

S. 1711, extend patent numbered 3,376,198 relating to the production of antibodies in milk (S. 1711), House version, 29287 [3OC]

S. 1711, extension of Impro Products, Inc., patent, 10092 [26AP]

S. 2085, Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, 13020 [21MY]

S. 2238, regulation of water use, 1036 [31JA]

S. 2379, Drought Assistance Equity Act, 4162 [1MR]

S. 2406, Farmers Home Administration loan policy conflict of interest regulations, 5128 [12MR]

S. 2546, extend period U.S. Grain Standards Act amendments remain in effect, 8585 [10AP]

S. 2583, U.S. participation in the Office International de la Vigne et du Vin, 9664 [24AP], 27178 [26SE]

S. 2638, Gypsy Moth Control Act, 11258 [8MY]

S. 2655, agricultural exports trade report, 11715 [10MY]

S. 2761, White Sands Missile Range, NM, land claims settlement, 16453 [14JN]

S. 2764, U.S. participation in International Jute Organization, 16562 [14JN], 27178 [26SE]

S. 2789, establish Select Commission on Climate and Agriculture, 17852 [21JN]

S. 2809, Canadian egg yolks tariff schedule, 19645 [28JN]

S. 2822, imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property, 19661 [28JN]

S. 2833, limit to the national median household income the amount of off-farm income which could be sheltered by farm losses, 20019 [29JN]

S. 2860, Meat and Poultry Inspection Act, 20886 [25JY]

S. 2861, provide Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program pumping power to Hilltop and Gray Goose irrigation projects, South Dakota, 20889 [25JY]

S. 2871, improve migrant education programs, 21182 [26JY]

S. 2896, reduction of duty on certain asparagus, 21629 [31JY]

S. 2950, Agricultural Patent Reform Act, 23833-23836 [10AU]

S. 2967, Agricultural Credit Assistance Act, 24393 [6SE]

S. 2974, authorize payment to certain landowners for damage to property, 24602 [7SE]

S. 2997, promote prompt payment to poultry growers, 25618 [17SE]

S. 3002, Temporary Agricultural Interest Rate Reduction Act, 25775 [18SE]

S. 3032, provide equitable imputed interest rates on sale or exchange of certain real property, 27504 [27SE]

S. 3046, direct Corps of Engineers to sell storage space in Rathbun Lake, IA, 28402 [2OC]

S. 3053, Methanol Vehicle Incentives Act, 29160 [3OC]

S. 3076, emergency action relative to chemical residues on food which present an imminent hazard to public health, 30590-30593 [5OC]

S. Con. Res. 87, require elimination of Japanese nontariff barriers to U.S. beef, 219 [24JA]

S. Con. Res. 99, ensure caution in making adverse classifications with respect to agricultural loans, 6172 [21MR]

S. Con. Res. 130, credit equity for farmers, 20135 [29JN]

S. Res. 287, establish Task Force on Agricultural Credit, 10687 [2MY]

S. Res. 333, economic emergency loan program funding obligations, 1786 [3FE]

S. Res. 349, agricultural representation of Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 2542 [9FE]

S. Res. 396, National Meat Week, 15051 [6JN], 16654 [15JN]

S. Res. 402, proposed EEC restriction on U.S. agricultural products, 15856 [12JN]

S. Res. 405, land claims settlements (S. 2761), refer to Court of Claims, 16453, 16584 [14JN]

S. Res. 410, National Honey Week: designate, 16975 [18JN]

S. Res. 431, Canadian pork exports to U.S., 23341 [9AU]

S. Res. 440, modify U.S.-Soviet grain agreement, 24780 [11SE]

S. Res. 479, EEC duties on U.S. soybeans and soybean products, 32036 [11OC]

S.J. Res. 143, National Garden Week, 8729 [11AP]

S.J. Res. 273, Smokey Bear Week, 28688 [2OC]

S.J. Res. 279, Women in Agriculture Week, 9881 [25AP], 11251 [8MY]

S.J. Res. 306, Food for Peace Day, 15049 [6JN], 16654 [15JN], 20300 [29JN], 22332 [3AU]

S.J. Res. 332, World Food Day, 20133 [29JN]

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Competitive Research Grants—Research Accomplishments: House Committee on Appropriations hearing excerpt, 15112 [6JN]