AGRICULTURE related term(s) Food

Addresses

Agricultural Quarantine Enforcement Act (excerpt), 26391 [25SE]

Federal Agricultural Policy—Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: Representative Gephardt, 3437 [3MR]

Federal Soil and Water Conservation Policy—Current Situation and Directions: Charles M. Benbrook, 32598-32600 [16OC]

Importance of Vocational Training in Agriculture: Kipling Godwin, 21781 [15AU]

National Dairy Board Accomplishments, 16005 [26JN]

Agreements

Dairy herd termination program: Dept. of Agriculture, 10640 [14MY]

Amendments

Agricultural Energy Bank Incentive Act: enact (S. 2231), 7410-7412 [14AP]

Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5177), 17670, 17678, 17682 [24JY]

Census: eliminate drainage (H.R. 2722), 30198 [10OC]

Central Valley, CA: coordinate certain water projects (H.R. 3113), 16543, 16550, 16633 [16JY]

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), 3604, 3605, 3610, 3612, 3614 [5MR]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (H.R. 2482), 23245 [12SE], 23474-23479 [16SE], 23671-23673 [17SE], 24150, 24151, 24687 [18SE], 24728, 24730, 24732, 24743, 24745, 24746, 24747, 24748, 24749, 24753, 24758, 24760 [19SE], 32273-32301 [16OC]

———amend (S. 2215), 12253 [3JN]

———amend (S. 2792), 28934, 28935-28938, 28948, 28950, 28971, 28973, 28974, 28978, 28979, 28982, 28983, 28985, 29036-29039, 29045-29049 [6OC]

Food Security Act: amend (S. 2036), 2071 [7FE]

Food Security Improvements Act: enact (H.R. 1614), 3826-3829 [6MR]

———enact (S. 2143), 3299 [28FE], 3697, 3701, 3702, 3729, 3730 [5MR]

FRS: make credit available for agricultural purposes (S. 2116), 4170 [10MR]

Futures Trading Act: enact (S. 2045), 25824 [24SE], 28908-28909, 28914, 28916, 28917, 28918, 28919, 29032-29036 [6OC]

North Dakota: reauthorize Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project (H.R. 1116), 8451, 8452, 8453 [23AP]

Poland: U.S. shipment of dried milk (S. Res. 394), 9673 [6MY]

Railroads: enhance competition and ensure reasonable rates (S. 477), 28000 [2OC]

Wheat: referendum on national marketing quota (H.R. 1614), 3826-3829 [6MR]

Analyses

Agricultural Credit Act (S. 2315), 7767 [16AP]

Agricultural Energy Bank Incentive Act (S. 2231), 6315 [26MR]

Boren Amendment to H.J. Res. 738, Making Continuing Appropriations, 27576 [1OC]

Crop Insurance Act (H.R. 5605), 26578 [26SE]

Family Farm Reorganization Act (S. 2249), 9897 [7MY]

Farm Credit Act Amendments (H.R. 5635), 28672 [3OC]

Farm Credit Assistance Act (S. 2332), 7985 [17AP]

Farm Credit System: L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, Inc., 29519 [8OC]

Farm Credit System Borrower Interest Rate Relief Act (S. 2770), 21931 [15AU]

Farm Mortgage Marketing Restoration Act (S. 2725), 19857 [7AU]

Farm Policy Reform Act (S. 2767), 21926 [15AU]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act amendments (H.R. 4364), 4585-4591 [12MR]

Food Security Improvements Act (S. 2143), 3160 [27FE], 3312-3315 [28FE], 3529 [4MR], 3699 [5MR]

Futures Trading Act (S. 2045), 1590-1599 [4FE]

Grain Marketing Act (S. 2847), 25099 [22SE]

Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Improvement Act (S. 2622), 15882 [26JN]

Modify Cross Compliance Requirements for Producers of Extra Long Staple Type Cotton (S. 2721), 21600 [14AU]

Save the Family Farm Act, 26379 [25SE]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 3113, coordination of operation of Central Valley project and State water project, 20391 [9AU]

National Commission on Agricultural Finance: members, 28037 [2OC], 31335 [15OC]

Articles and editorials

Administration Is Divided Over Cheap Grain for Soviets—Australia Calls Legislation ``Devastating'', 20233 [9AU]

Against Australia's Grain, 18851 [1AU]

Agreeing on Pesticides, 28933 [6OC]

Agricultural Development Does More Than Ease Hunger, 26576 [26SE]

Agriculture—Heart of the American Economy, 3755 [5MR]

Amber Waves of Strain, 16535 [16JY]

American Farmers . . . First, 10571 [14MY]

American Grain Sales Should Be for Everyone, 22170 [15AU]

Americans Resuming Dormant Love Affair With a Glass of Milk, 16636 [16JY]

Analysis of Pending Bills To Provide Family Farm Debtor Relief Under the Bankruptcy Code, 28593-28608 [3OC]

Apartheid, Like Walls of Jericho, Is Falling, 27662 [1OC]

Australians Protest, 20233 [9AU]

Big Farms To Get Huge U.S. Subsidies, 18714 [1AU]

Bugged on Pesticides?, 28931 [6OC]

Bumpers, Pryor Held Stock—Anthony Got Paid for Travel, 33909 [6NO]

Camp Leaves Rich Legacy, 22516 [10SE]

Canker a Problem for Entire State, Not Just Citrus Industry, Says Official, 6565 [27MR]

Chickening Out, 33911 [6NO]

City Councilman Gets Different Picture of South Africa, 27661 [1OC]

Clifford Hesseltine's Experience as U.S. Government Scientist (excerpt), 29334 [7OC]

Cost of Farm Law Might Be Double Original Estimate, 18715 [1AU]

County's Hay Headed to Drought-Stricken Land, 21135 [12AU]

Dairy Price Support Program (excerpt), 3473 [4MR]

Don't Betray a Fair Competitor, 21753 [14AU]

Don't Zap Pesticide Bills, 23048 [12SE], 28933 [6OC]

Economic Impact of Drought on Farmers (excerpt), 19025 [5AU]

Engler Advocates Delisting (excerpt), 25825 [24SE]

Environmental Crossroads, 28930 [6OC]

Even the Fish Die in Streams as the Dust-Dry South Bakes, 17345 [23JY]

Exalting in Ice Cream, Exotic and Plain, 16007 [26JN]

Exports—Be Patient or Panic?, 33551 [17OC]

Extension Service Faces Uncertain Future, 2081 [7FE]

Family Farm Tax Break Aids Big Poultry Firms, 33908 [6NO]

Farm Credit System Leaders Act To Aid Both Healthy and Troubled Borrowers, 10456 [13MY]

Farm Credit System Ready To Paper Over Its Red Ink, 31397 [15OC], 33310 [17OC]

Farm Credit Uncertainty Big Concern to Growers, 4612 [12MR]

Farm Economy Slump May Be Near End, 17231 [22JY]

Farm Lender Posts Record Loss, 2306 [19FE]

Farm Price Support Program (excerpt), 3117 [27FE]

``Farm Rebel'' Keeps Eye on Farm Prices, Issues, 2440 [19FE]

Farmers Here Sending Hay, 21136 [12AU]

Farmers Home Administration Guarantee Used in Test Program, 33629 [17OC]

Farmers Purse Strings May Tie Up Chemical Legislation, 28980 [6OC]

Farmers' Purse Strings May Tie Up Chemical Legislation, 25847 [24SE]

Farmers' Stake in Reforming Data Compensation Provision of FIFRA, 28972 [6OC]

Farm-Fund Debate Gets Earthy, 3308 [28FE]

Farming the Tax Code, 13174 [10JN]

FDA Politicization Called Hazardous to Health, 791 [29JA]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act—State and Local Responsibilities (excerpt), 24755 [23SE]

FmHA To Pressure Delinquent Farmers, 256 [22JA]

Fulda, MN—A Small Town Feels the Farm Crisis, 12846 [6JN]

Fun and Games With Chicken Feed, 13627 [12JN], 14519, 14552 [19JN], 33907 [6NO]

Gary and Marta Take OYDC Top Honor, 8231 [21AP]

Gentleman Farmer From Fairfax—J. Douglas Webb's Quiet Style Helps Steer the Dairy Industry, 17773 [25JY]

Gephardt's Farm-Management Bill, 26565 [26SE]

Good Riddance, '85—Strength Will Bring a Brighter End to '86, 5987 [21MR]

Grain in the Chaff, 33358 [17OC]

Grain Sale to Soviets (excerpt), 18682 [1AU]

Grain Sales Distort U.S. Priorities, 22164 [15AU]

Gribble Lends Rigs for Hay, 21135 [12AU]

Heartland Said Critically Short of Corn Storage Space, 17671 [24JY]

I Believe in the Future of Farming . . . Or Do I?, 8051 [17AP]

Impact of Mass Slaughter of Dairy Cows on Cattle Prices, 7166 [10AP]

Is AID Serious About Private Sector Development?, 7603 [15AP]

Is U.S. Repeating Mistakes of 1920's?, 14707 [19JN]

Japanese Government Company Stymies Imports of Tobacco Into Open Market, 6066 [25MR]

Kaptur, Levin Key to Summit Trade Gain, 12037 [22MY]

Knight of the Highway, 21135 [12AU]

Largest Poultry Producer Reportedly Escapes Taxes, 33910 [6NO]

Layman's Death Called Great Loss to State, Region, 17933 [29JY]

Life on the Land—An American Farm Family, 8953-8957 [29AP]

Livestock for Trade on Commodity Futures (excerpt), 20557 [11AU]

Looking Abroad To Fill Our Bellies, 21422 [13AU]

Loophole Lets Farmers Glean Extra Subsidies, 15612 [25JN]

Lower Dairy Price Supports (excerpt), 14450 [18JN]

Many Farmers May Face Loan Cutoffs—Expected Farm Credit Move Could Fuel Crisis, 2869 [26FE]

Middle Western Farmers Confront a New Problem—No Storage Space, 19467 [6AU]

Milk Bath for the Taxpayers?, 14450 [18JN]

Need Cited for U.S. Testing for Hospital Disinfectants, 28949 [6OC]

Neighbors Try To Save Farm Community, 3380 [3MR]

New Direction for Farm Policy, 25842 [24SE]

New Farm Belt Crop—Industry, 18136 [30JY]

New Farm Law Raises Federal Costs and Fails To Solve Big Problems, 14977 [23JN]

New Sheet of Music—How Kennedy's Farm Adviser Has Changed His Tune About Commodity Policy and Why, 6200-6202 [26MR]

Of Cattle and Cranberries, 10570 [14MY]

Oilmen Get No Respect—But They're Suffering, 17592 [24JY]

On the Congressional Agenda—Improved Pesticide Control Law, 28932 [6OC]

100,000-Year Hunt, 5685-5689 [20MR]

Only Cure for the Farm Crisis, 27443 [30SE]

Perdue Can Defer Taxes While Chicken Rivals Boil, 33912 [6NO]

Plugging Farm Subsidies Into Perspective, 16517 [15JY]

Politics vs. Principles, 20942 [12AU]

Poultry Producers Get Exemptions, 33912 [6NO]

Pre-Empting California, 28932 [6OC]

Profits? State Farmers Seek Survival, 7769 [16AP]

Protection From Pesticides, 28931 [6OC]

Put Off Referendum, 294 [22JA]

Rationing of Water Possible, 10566 [14MY]

Runaway Farm Spending, 14450 [18JN]

S. Africa Likely To Become Major Mart for U.S. Wheat, 27662 [1OC]

Save the Family Farm Bill Would Do Otherwise, 33921 [18OC]

Saving the System, Not the Farmers, 33282 [17OC]

Sealing the Deal on Pesticide Reform, 28931 [6OC]

Seeds of Suspicion Over the Wheat Deal, 17222 [22JY]

Senator Roth Makes Hay With Farm Tax Break, 33910 [6NO]

Shultz Assails Reagan Decision To Subsidize Grain for Soviets, 20233 [9AU]

Slettom Retiring as Head of MAC, 29170 [7OC]

Some Growers to Harvest Millions of Subsidy Dollars Under New Law, 17671 [24JY]

State Farming Goes To Seed—More Foreclosures Than at Any Time Since Great Depression, 7770 [16AP]

States' Rights and Pesticides, 28931, 28932 [6OC]

Staunch Agricultural Budget Bleeding, 21270 [13AU]

Tax Break Benefiting Tyson Kept, 33909 [6NO]

Tax Reform—Congress Hatches Some Loopholes, 33913 [6NO]

Test on Pesticides, 28933 [6OC]

Trading With the Russians (excerpt), 18681 [1AU]

Two Sides of Iowa's Slumping Economy, 2080 [7FE]

Tyson Defends Retention of Tax Breaks, 33910 [6NO]

U.S. Loses Tropical Forests, 23024 [11SE]

U.S. Sugar Quotas Impede U.S. Policies Toward Latin America, 26723 [27SE]

U.S. Tells Farmers To Make Payments or Rearrange Terms of Loan in Arrears, 255 [22JA]

U.S. To Send Farmers Foreclosure Warning—2-Year Moratorium Ends, 255 [22JA]

Unhappy Banks Reap Crop of Unprofitable Land, 7768 [16AP]

Up to 5,000 Farmers May Call It Quits in '86, 2869 [26FE]

USDA Seeks Armed Teams To Rid Forests of Drug Crop, 26807 [27SE]

Value of Kentucky Farmland at Lowest Level Since 1979, 13666 [13JN]

Vegetable Co-Ops Feed Farmers' Hopes, 13667 [13JN]

Wheat Growers Rip Hayden's South African Embargo Stance, 27662 [1OC]

Wheat—Australia's Free Ride Ends, 26869 [27SE]

Wheat—Aust's Free Ride Ends, 24706 [18SE]

Wofford B. Camp, 22516 [10SE]

Work With Us, Not the Soviet Union, 21752 [14AU]

Worst May Be Over for U.S. Farmers, Agriculture Official Says, 17232 [22JY]

Zorinsky—ConAgra Is at Disadvantage Without Tax Benefit, 33911 [6NO]

Bills and resolutions

Acreage diversion: bids from producers of commodities (see H. Con. Res. 360)

Africa Famine, Recovery, and Development Fund: establish (see H.R. 4865)

Agricultural Act: amend (see H.R. 5257)

Agricultural price supports: equitable method of payments for 1986-87 crops (see S. 2042; H.R. 4105)

Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act: encourage loans for microenterprises by undeveloped countries (see H.R. 4894)

Agriculture: emergency assistance (see H.R. 5288)

Aliens: exclusion of certain agricultural labor from Federal unemployment tax (see H.R. 5679)

———minimum wages for temporary agricultural workers (see H.R. 4577)

Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act: enact (see S. 2407)

Animal quarantine: restriction on use of first-class mail (see H.R. 5684)

Appropriations: authorize (see H.R. 5177)

———waiving certain points of order against consideration of H.R. 5177 (see H. Res. 504)

Argentina: World Bank loan to dismantle certain taxes applied to agricultural exports (see S. Res. 397)

Avian influenza: eradication funds (see H.R. 4432)

Bankruptcy: aid in reorganization of family farms (see S. 2249)

Banks and banking: advance recourse loans to farmers (see H.R. 4610)

———credit assistance to borrowers (see S. 2332; H.R. 4626)

———debt adjustment program (see H.R. 4267)

———emergency procedure to facilitate restructuring of certain agricultural loans (see H.R. 4241, 4387)

———forgo foreclosure of certain loans and adjust schedule for repayment terms based on borrower's prospective cash flow (see H.R. 5372)

———interest rate for buy-down loans (see H.R. 4267)

———loan policy (see H.R. 4553)

———loan restructuring (see S. Con. Res. 122; H. Con. Res. 310)

———procedures for mediating farm loans made by Federal entities (see H.R. 4799)

———restructure agricultural loans (see S. 2315; H.R. 4609)

———restructure certain loans (see H.R. 4168)

———secondary market for farm mortgages (see S. 2725)

———stimulate savings to lower interest rates for farmers (see H.R. 4073)

———transfer of funds for insured loans (see H.R. 5317, 5335)

———use of farm operating loan guarantee funds to reduce interest rates (see H.R. 4178)

Biotechnology Science Coordinating Committee: establish (see H.R. 4452)

Bovine growth hormone: analysis of the effect on milk price support program (see H.R. 5563)

———condition for approval (see H.R. 5122)

Branding: alternative to hot-iron identification method (see H. Res. 407)

Canada: import of beef products (see H.R. 4591)

———imports of live cattle (see S. 2336)

Cane sugar: application of Tariff Act's drawback provisions to certain imports (see S. 2637)

Cantaloups: suspension of tariff (see S. 2511)

Carolinas Cotton Growers Association, Inc.: relief (see S. 2862; H.R. 5149)

Cattle: pay restitution to certain producers (see S. 2844; H.R. 5549)

CCC: paying producers for on-farm storage of commodities (see S. 2717)

CFTC: authorize appropriations (see S. 2045)

Citrus canker: eradication funds (see H.R. 4432)

———Federal-State program to detect and eradicate (see S. Res. 376, 377)

Coffee: extend effective period of international agreement (see S. 2712)

Commodities: increase acreage placed in conservation reserve program (see S. 2937)

Commodity control: modify definition of nonprogram crop (see S. 2039; H.R. 4079)

Commodity Exchange Act: waiving certain points of order against conference report on H.R. 4613 (see H. Res. 590)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: insured farm operating loans (see H. Con. Res. 354)

———require training in advanced marketing techniques for real estate and farm operating loans (see S. 2553)

Cooperative Extension Service: funds (see S. Res. 368)

Cotton: modify cross compliance requirements for producers of extra long staple type (see S. 2721; H.R. 5356)

———price support program (see H.R. 4177)

Dairy industry: price support program (see S. 2252)

Dairy Price Support Program: application of sequestration order (see H.R. 4265)

Deficiency payments: exclude as entity, family members assisting in farm operations (see H.R. 5441)

Disasters: availability of surplus basic commodities to designated areas (see H.R. 5330)

———tax deduction for contributions of agricultural property for victims (see H.R. 5301)

Droughts: CCC surplus commodities provided as emergency relief (see S. 2789)

———defer payments on loans from Farmers Home Administration (see S. 2731)

———tax deduction for contributions of agricultural products to affected farmers (see H.R. 5416)

Dry edible beans: treatment for certain payments under price support program (see H.R. 4078)

Economic assistance: U.S. goods and services to foreign countries instead of direct cash grants (see S. 2605)

Economic conditions: price and income protection for family farmers (see S. 2869; H.R. 5588)

EEC: implement trade agreement on citrus and pasta (see S. 2856)

———restrictive trade practices (see S. Con. Res. 129)

———trade agreement on citrus and pasta (see H. Res. 550)

El Dorado Irrigation District, CA: sale of Central Valley project's Sly Park Unit (see H.R. 5093)

Export Enhancement Improvement Act: enact (see H.R. 5278)

Farm Credit System: assistance to certain borrowers (see S. 2144; H.R. 4369)

———competitive interest rates (see S. 2770; H.R. 5485, 5497)

———credit assistance to borrowers (see S. 2332; H.R. 4626)

———issuance of bonds (see H.R. 4944)

———loan restructuring (see S. Con. Res. 138)

———protection for participating farmers (see H.R. 4631)

———relief on interest rates (see S. 2899; H.R. 5635)

Farm Emergency Credit Act: enact (see S. 2113)

Farm Foreclosure Relief Act: enact (see H.R. 4266)

Farm homestead protection program: mandatory (see H.R. 4285)

Farm lands: promote conservation practices (see H.R. 5669)

Farm produce: market loans for wheat, feed grains, and soybeans (see H.R. 5483)

———nonprogram crops on certain excess acreage (see S. 2077; H.R. 4166)

———price support (see S. 2795)

———promote use of alcohol as fuel (see H.R. 4335)

Farm programs: payment limitation provisions under Agriculture Act (see H.R. 5432)

Farmers: amend Job Training Partnership Act to encourage delivery of services (see H.R. 5062)

———commend assistance extended to the Southeast (see S. Res. 451)

———deficiency payments for crops of wheat and feed grain (see H.R. 4909)

———emergency assistance (see H.R. 5288)

Farmers Home Administration: credit assistance to borrowers (see S. 2332; H.R. 4626)

———secondary market for sound mortgages secured by farm real estate (see H.R. 4853)

Farmland Protection Policy Act: amend (see S. 2548)

Farms: issuance of agricultural mortgage loans (see H.R. 4984)

———permit rollover gain from sale of farmland development rights (see S. 2549)

Federal aid programs: revise terms (see H.R. 4306)

Federal Crop Insurance Act: amend (see H.R. 5605)

———improve administration (see S. 2851)

Federal Crop Insurance Corp.: determination of insurance units (see H.R. 4791)

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (see S. 2792; H.R. 5440)

———consideration of H.R. 2482 to amend (see H. Res. 536)

———cost sharing process for data base management (see H.R. 4440)

Feed grain: price support program (see H.R. 4177)

Feed grains: adjustments in maximum payment limitation (see S. 2767)

———computation of emergency compensation (see H.R. 4462)

———deficiency payments (see S. 2317)

———determination of deficiency payments (see H.R. 4456)

———early and direct entry into producer reserve program (see H.R. 5387)

———increased producers' income (see H.R. 4267)

———marketing loan program (see S. 2847)

———payment of storage fee for participants in producer reserve program (see H.R. 5436)

———rotation in producer reserve program (see S. 2365)

———storage payments (see H.R. 5623)

Food bank special nutrition projects: reestablish (see S. 2279)

Food relief: availability of CCC excess cheese to State agencies (see H.R. 5145)

———improve administration (see S. 2279)

Food Security Improvements Act: enact (see S. 2143)

Foreign countries: purchase of U.S. commodities with economic assistance funds (see S. 2605)

Foreign investments: prohibit assistance under price support and related programs (see S. 2274, 2310; H.R. 4519)

———tax treatment of interest on industrial development bonds used for acquisition of farm property (see S. 2273; H.R. 4520)

Foreign trade: definition of industry in countervailing duty investigations involving certain processed products (see S. 2244; H.R. 4534)

———enforcement of plant and animal quarantine laws (see H.R. 5684)

———export grain bank (see H.R. 4158)

———improve quality of exported grain (see S. 2682)

———international basic standards to prevent air and water pollution, soil erosion, and hazardous waste contamination (see H.R. 4681)

———perishable commodity label requirement for commission merchants, dealers, and brokers (see H.R. 5088)

———promote export of agricultural commodities (see S. Res. 448; H.R. 5242)

———restriction on World Bank or IMF loans to certain countries relative to commodity or mineral production adversely affecting U.S. industries (see H.R. 5537)

———revise terms of certain export assistance programs (see H.R. 4284, 4291)

FRS: availability of credit to agriculture (see S. 2116)

Grain: accuracy of reporting condition or quality (see H.R. 4139)

———CCC loans to storage facilities (see H.R. 5386)

———optimal grading (see H.R. 5354)

———quality of exports (see H.R. 4714)

———quality standards (see S. 2874; H.R. 5403, 5407)

———storage payment rate in farmer-owned reserve (see H.R. 5580)

Grain Storage Rate Equity Act: enact (see S. 2684)

Grain trade: export certification authority of Federal Grain Inspection Service (see H.R. 4605)

Hormones: classification of certain, artificially produced (see H.R. 5653, 5695)

Idaho: Minidoka project's North Side Pumping Division Extension (see H.R. 4844)

Indians: settlement of water rights claims of certain, in San Diego County, CA (see S. 2676)

———settlement of water rights in San Diego County, CA (see H.R. 4468)

International Coffee Agreement Act: extend effective period (see H.R. 5074)

Iran: imports of pistachio nuts (see H.R. 4684)

Irrigation: charge cost of water delivered to reclamation project for production of surplus program crop (see H.R. 5608)

Livestock: eliminate cattle as a subject for trading on commodity futures market (see S. 2737)

———emergency feed assistance programs (see H.R. 4455)

———prohibit use of subtherapeutic doses of penicillin, chlortetracycline, and oxytetracycline in animal feed (see S. 2935)

Loans: credit assistance (see H.R. 4626)

Meat: encourage consumption (see S. Res. 370)

———tariff on certain products processed abroad (see H.R. 4744)

Meat Import Act: amend tariff for meat processed abroad from U.S. cattle (see S. 2478)

Meat inspection: recommendations of President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (see S. 2622; H.R. 5105)

Meat packaging industry: determine manner and frequency of inspection (see S. 2675)

Meat packing industry: inspection (see H.R. 4683)

Menthol feedstocks: duty (see H.R. 5063)

Milk: analysis of the effect of use of bovine growth hormone on price support program (see H.R. 5563)

———appropriations for Dairy Indemnity Program (see H.R. 4537)

———define term marketing history relative to production termination program (see H.R. 4256, 4261)

———minimum adjustments to prices (see S. 2047)

———nationwide marketing order (see S. 2342; H.R. 4627)

———price support program (see S. 2085; H.R. 4148, 4188, 4232, 5642)

———production termination program (see S. 2280, 2284, 2292; S. Con. Res. 124; S. Res. 379; H.R. 4688; H. Res. 414, 418)

———tax treatment of interest on State and local bonds used to finance production (see H.R. 4807)

Motor vehicles: promote use of alcohol as fuel (see H.R. 4335)

National Agricultural Export Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 310; H.J. Res. 572)

National Agricultural Library: statutory authority (see H.R. 5697)

National Food Bank Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 301, 333)

Natural disasters: emergency assistance to farmers (see H.R. 5524)

Nicaragua: economic assistance (see S. 2343)

Occupational health and safety: field sanitation for employees engaged in hand-labor operations (see H.R. 4029)

Office of Emergency Aid for Farm Families: establish (see S. 2617)

OPIC: export of citrus crops (see S. 2153; H.R. 4423)

Packers and Stockyards Act: protect egg producers and poultry sellers, and remedy commerce burdens (see S. 2550)

Patents: extend term, for certain chemical products (see H.R. 5536)

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act: require merchants to label perishable goods with name of the country of origin (see H.R. 4950)

Pesticides: eliminate duplicative research on effects of weed control (see S. 2705)

———filing abbreviated applications for registration, under certain circumstances (see S. 2872)

———protect public health and ecology (see S. 2215, 2346; H.R. 4364, 4513)

Plant quarantine: restriction on use of first-class mail (see H.R. 5684)

Poland: authorize shipment of dry milk (see S. Res. 394)

Poultry industry: recommendations of President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (see S. 2622; H.R. 5105)

———remedy burdens on commerce (see H.R. 5061)

Public lands: grazing fees (see H.R. 4713)

Radioactive pollution: prohibit imports from countries contaminated by Soviet power plant accident (see H.J. Res. 622)

Railroads: disclosure of certain contracts on transportation of commodities (see S. 2447)

———disclosure of certain transportation contracts (see H.R. 5351)

Real property: secondary market for farm mortgages (see S. 2589; H.R. 5132)

Rice: price support program (see H.R. 4177)

Riverside, CA: salinity laboratory (see H.R. 5215)

Sec. of Agriculture: deficiency payments on wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice (see H.R. 4912)

Soviet Union: assistance to replenish contaminated agricultural commodities (see H. Res. 449)

———compliance with long-term grain purchase agreement (see H. Con. Res. 405)

Soybeans: maintain per bushel loan rate (see S. Res. 453)

———marketing loan or producer option payment program (see H.R. 5499, 5504)

———marketing loan program (see S. 2847)

———price support program (see S. 2836; H.R. 5507, 5544)

Sub-Saharan Africa Fund: making appropriations (see H.R. 4572)

Sugar: apply Tariff Act's drawback provisions to certain imports (see H.R. 4563)

———import restrictions (see S. 2451)

———purchase from certain developing countries (see H.R. 5512)

———restore quota for the Philippines (see H.R. 5512)

Taxation: amounts received from sales of property attributable to discharge of indebtedness (see H.R. 4080)

———charitable deduction to farmers who donate products (see S. 2680)

———credit for B-stock losses due to failure of a production credit association (see S. 2313)

———discharge of certain farm indebtedness (see S. 2221; S. Con. Res. 119)

———net operating loss carrybacks of agricultural banks (see H. Con. Res. 286)

———permit rollover gain from sale of farmland development rights (see S. 2549)

———rules for discharge of qualified farm indebtedness of solvent farmers (see H.R. 5010)

———treatment of amounts attributable to discharge of indebtedness on certain farm property (see H.R. 4601)

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program: improve administration (see S. 2279)

Tobacco industry: delay proclamation of national marketing quotas for 1986-88 crops of burley tobacco (see S. 2013)

———delay referendum for 1986-88 crops of flue-cured tobacco (see S. 2013)

Wheat: adjustments in maximum payment limitation (see S. 2767)

———computation of emergency compensation (see H.R. 4462)

———correct enrollment of H.R. 1614, national marketing quota (see S. Con. Res. 114; H. Con. Res. 113)

———deficiency payments (see S. 2317)

———determination of deficiency payments (see S. 2193; H.R. 4456)

———early and direct entry into producer reserve program (see H.R. 5387)

———Government policy based on producers' referendum (see H. Res. 538)

———increased producers' income (see H.R. 4267)

———marketing loan program (see S. 2847)

———marketing quota referendum by producers (see S. 2903)

———payment of storage fee for participants in producer reserve program (see H.R. 5436)

———price support program (see H.R. 4177)

———production agreement with exporting countries (see H. Res. 561)

———storage payments (see H.R. 5623)

World Bank: loan to Argentina to dismantle certain taxes applied to agricultural exports (see S. Res. 397)

World Food Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 296; H.J. Res. 595)

Book reviews

``Vanishing Land,'' Robert W. Howard, 2117 [18FE]

Colloquies

Prices on oil and farm products and foreign trade: Representative English with James C. Miller III, Director of OMB, 21433 [13AU]

Commentaries

Death in the family: Senator Simon, 28022 [2OC]

Documents

Garrison Diversion Unit Irrigation Project, ND (1965), 8454 [23AP]

Essays

Good Food From Indiana—From Our Farms to Our Tables: Amber Shoultz, 7789 [16AP]

———Brian Stwalley, 7789 [16AP]

So, God Made a Farmer: Paula Entelt, 22463 [9SE]

Why We Need Soil Conservation on Farmlands: Michele Hart, 8840 [28AP]

Executive orders

Grazing fees for domestic livestock: President Reagan, 2204 [18FE]

Explanations

Agricultural credit availability (S. 2116), 4171 [10MR]

Agricultural credit relief (H.R. 4380), 8349 [22AP]

Agricultural Loan Assistance Act (H.R. 4241), 3617 [5MR]

Federal Crop Insurance Act (S. 2851), 25680 [23SE]

Food Security Improvements Act (S. Con. Res. 113), enrollment corrections in H.R. 1614, 4176 [10MR]

Factsheets

Reauthorize Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project, ND (H.R. 1116), 6153 [25MR]

Form

Borrower acknowledgement of notice of intent to take adverse action: Farmers Home Administration, 252 [22JA]

Farmer program borrower servicing options including deferrals and borrower responsibilities: Farmers Home Administration, 253 [22JA]

Notice of intent to take adverse action against borrower: Farmers Home Administration, 252 [22JA]

Guidelines

Farm Credit System, 10460 [13MY]

Letters

Ag groups oppose Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act override challenge: sundry groups, 18831 [1AU]

Agricultural policies: U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua-8123 [21AP]

Appointments to the Farm Credit Administration: Senator Dixon, 2306 [19FE]

Assistance to farmers and ranchers affected by drought: John G. Hankins, 27585 [1OC]

———Senator Sasser, 27585 [1OC]

Authority for States to set uniform tolerance levels for pesticides: Arch A. Moore, Jr., Governor of West Virginia, 28954 [6OC]

———Florida Dept. of Health and Rehabilitation, 28958 [6OC]

———George Deukmejian, Governor of California, 28955 [6OC]

———George R. Ariyoshi, Governor of Hawaii, 28953, 28954 [6OC]

———John Ashcroft, Governor of Missouri, 28964 [6OC]

———Madeleine M. Kunin, Governor of Vermont, 28954 [6OC]

———National Governors' Association, 28956, 28962 [6OC]

———Richard H. Bryan, Governor of Nevada, 28956 [6OC]

———Richard W. Riley, Governor of South Carolina, 28955 [6OC]

———Robert D. Orr, Governor of Indiana, 28964 [6OC]

———Robert Kerrey, Governor of Nebraska, 28956 [6OC]

———Texas Dept. of Health, 28960 [6OC]

———Thomas H. Kean, Governor of New Jersey, 28953 [6OC]

———Toney Anaya, Governor of New Mexico, 28955 [6OC]

———sundry, 28964-28970 [6OC]

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: Senator Boschwitz, 5933 [21MR]

Central Valley, CA, water projects: Environmental Policy Institute, 16551 [16JY]

CFTC regulation of leverage transactions: Dept. of Justice, 25832-25833 [24SE]

Community and migrant health centers programs: Health Resources and Services Administration, 7314 [11AP]

Credit crisis for farmers: Laura Anderson, 1001 [29JA]

Cross compliance for farm program commodities: Senator Bentsen, 1217 [30JA]

Dairy farmer price supports: Representative de la Garza, 3832 [6MR]

———Representative Rostenkowski, 3831 [6MR]

Dairy farmers: Senator Kasten, 1720 [5FE]

Daylight saving time: American Farm Bureau Federation, 11204 [19MY]

Denial of Dept. of Agriculture disaster assistance to South Dakota: Representative Daschle, 1793 [5FE]

Dept. of Agriculture mandatory limits on wheat production: Senator Zorinsky, 21906 [15AU]

Drought damage survey: Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, 18712 [1AU]

Economic crisis in agriculture: Billy Gillum, 1825 [6FE]

Economic relief for family farmers: American Bankruptcy Institute, 9991 [8MY]

———National Farmers Union, 9991 [8MY]

Economic sanctions against South Africa: Kobus Jooste, 27850 [2OC]

Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act: Dept. of Agriculture, 5989 [21MR]

Exporting of agricultural products: AG Processing, Inc., 16339 [14JY]

Farm credit interest rate relief: several agricultural commodity organizations, 31398 [15OC]

Farm Credit System: Federal Farm Credit Council, 10459 [13MY]

Farm Credit System Borrower Interest Rate Relief Act: Farm Credit Corp., 22763 [10SE]

Farm tax shelters: Iowa Pork Producers, 14902 [23JN]

———National Cattlemen's Association, 14902 [23JN]

Farmers Home Administration foreclosure policies: Senator Cochran, 252 [22JA]

———Vance L. Clark, 255 [22JA]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Amendments: John R. Bolton, 24770 [19SE]

FRS credit for agricultural purposes: excerpt, 3174 [27FE]

Funds for farm programs: Senator Nickles, 15318 [25JN]

———Wheeler Bros. Grain Co., 15318 [25JN]

Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project, ND: Dept. of the Interior, 8455 [23AP]

Grazing fees: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 2204 [18FE]

———John V. Evans, Governor of Idaho, 2204 [18FE]

Humanitarian assistance to the Philippines: Senator Melcher, 2186 [18FE]

Impact of futures trading and the cattle industry: Marvin J. Walter (excerpt), 25825 [24SE]

———Pete Crow (excerpt), 25825 [24SE]

———Senator Helms, 25827 [24SE]

———Wade Choate (excerpt), 25825 [24SE]

Impact of Tax Reform Act on agriculture: National Cattlemen's Association, 4079 [7MR]

———National Wheat Growers Association, 4079 [7MR]

Income averaging by farmers: National Association of Wheat Growers, 13703 [13JN]

Loan assets sale: Senator Chiles (sundry), 33295 [17OC]

Marketing Loan Program: several agricultural associations, 25098 [22SE]

Nomination of Farm Credit Board: several Senators, 10628 [14MY]

Patent grants for agrichemical products: Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, 28980 [6OC]

Patent restoration of pesticides: Dept. of HHS, 25846 [24SE]

Patent term restoration for pesticide inventions: Senator Mathias, 32303 [16OC]

Peanut cross-compliance provisions of the 1985 farm bill: several Members of Congress, 28920 [6OC]

Planting of nonprogram crops: Dept. of Agriculture, 3706 [5MR]

———Senator Riegle, et al., 3705 [5MR]

Preservation of family farming, 14553 [19JN]

Projected savings of the Food Security Improvements Act: Dept. of Agriculture, 3536 [4MR]

Reduction of interest rates to the farmers: St. Paul, MN, District Farm Council (excerpt), 33268 [17OC]

Saving the Farm Credit System: Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, 33283 [17OC]

Soviet compliance with grain agreement: sundry Members of Congress, 29838 [8OC]

Task force on debt and credit problems: Independent Bankers Association of America and American Bankers Association, 1932 [6FE]

Taxation of agricultural cash rents: IRS, 13705 [13JN]

Trade and International Economic Policy Reform Act: American Farm Bureau Federation, 11464 [20MY]

———National Grange, 11378 [20MY], 11463 [20MY]

Transfer of land from Forest Service to the Dept. of Energy: Dept. of Energy, 29115 [6OC]

U.S. immigration policy: H-2 coalition, 9543 [6MY]

———John R. Bolton, 9757 [7MY]

———Walter F. Mondale (excerpt), 9545 [6MY]

U.S. immigration policy (sundry excerpts), 9757 [7MY]

Veto of the Anti-Apartheid Act: Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi, 27845 [2OC]

———Oklahoma Farm Bureau, 27845 [2OC]

Lists

Farm Credit Act amendments (H.R. 5635), cosponsors, 28673 [3OC]

Massachusetts contributors to donations of hay for Southern farmers, 19013 [5AU]

Newspapers supporting immigration reform, 9759 [7MY]

Organizations belonging to the Campaign for Pesticide Reform, 12259 [3JN]

Organizations endorsing the Principles to Govern U.S. Trade Policy, 9338 [1MY]

Memorandums

Africanized Honey Bee: Dept. of Agriculture, 33898 [6NO]

Memorials of legislature

Alabama, 10607 [14MY]

California, 11312 [20MY], 11948 [22MY], 15772 [26JN], 16370 [14JY], 18769 [1AU], 25837 [24SE], 27551 [1OC]

Delaware, 6638 [8AP]

Hawaii, 10606 [14MY], 10704 [14MY]

Indiana, 4577 [12MR]

Kansas, 7367 [14AP]

Montana, 9465 [5MY], 9648 [6MY]

Oklahoma, 6311 [26MR], 6638 [8AP], 11948 [22MY]

Oregon, 32197 [16OC]

South Carolina, 4472 [12MR], 5157 [18MR]

Tennessee, 14889 [23JN], 16370 [14JY]

Utah, 10402 [13MY]

Washington, 32197 [16OC]

Messages

CCC Report: President Reagan, 26178 [25SE]

Implementation of Stable Food Production Plans: President Reagan, 12070 [2JN]

State of the Union: President Reagan, 1942 [6FE]

Motion

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), pass S. 1282 in lieu, 3614 [5MR]

Opinions

Carriage in U.S. vessels of exports financed by Government agency: Dept. of Justice (1965), 4138 [10MR]

Papers

Agriculture and Education in Transition: James White, 33566 [17OC]

Petitions

Elimination of futures markets on livestock: sundry, 25828 [24SE]

Federal funds to subsidize agricultural competition: Southern Association of States, 22446 [9SE]

Food Security Act: National Association of Secretaries of State, 11949 [22MY], 12076 [2JN]

Poems

``Death in the Family,'' Sharon Steider, 28022 [2OC]

``Today's Farmer,'' Valeria M. Kibbel, 26372 [25SE]

Polls of opinion

Mandatory limits on wheat production: Dept. of Agriculture, 21905, 21906 [15AU]

Press releases

Ag groups oppose Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act override challenge: National Grange, 18831 [1AU]

Dairy Board reports biggest gain in commercial dairy products use in more than 20 years: National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, 16400 [14JY]

Indiana farmers honored by the U.S. Jaycees: Jaycees, 5044 [14MR]

Proceedings

World trade policy meeting, 23657 [17SE]

Recommendations

Task force on debt and credit problems, 1932 [6FE]

Remarks in House

Africa Famine, Recovery, and Development Fund: establish (H.R. 4865), 12014 [22MY]

African Famine, Recovery and Development Fund Act: enact (H.R. 4865), 14485 [18JN]

Agricultural Act: amend (H.R. 5387), 20575 [11AU]

Agricultural commodities: application of antidumping and countervailing duty statutes relative to raw products, 7252 [10AP]

———price support program, 3072 [27FE], 10950 [15MY]

Agricultural Export Enhancement Program: expand, 15739 [26JN]

Agricultural Extension Service: reduction of services, 9104 [30AP]

Agricultural Quarantine Enforcement Act: enact, 26391 [25SE]

Agricultural Research Service: authorizing construction of a salinity laboratory (H.R. 5215), 28776 [6OC]

Agricultural Shippers Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4999), 13422 [11JN]

Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5177), 17646-17683 [24JY]

Aliens: agricultural workers, 27322 [30SE]

———exclusion of certain agricultural labor from Federal unemployment tax (H.R. 5679), 30103 [9OC], 30168 [10OC]

———restrict access of INS enforcement officers to certain agricultural property, 30055-30059 [9OC]

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: appropriations, 17670 [24JY]

Animals: investigate alternatives to hot-iron cheek branding for identification purposes (H. Res. 407), 6605 [8AP]

Argentina: U.S. policy, 18851 [1AU]

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: impact, 1449 [4FE]

Banks and banking: agricultural credit assistance (H.R. 4380), 8349 [22AP]

———agricultural credit assistance (H.R. 4626), 7879 [17AP]

———emergency procedure for restructuring or canceling certain loans (H.R. 4241), 3616 [5MR]

———restructure agricultural loans (H.R. 4609), 7683 [16AP]

———restructure the Farm Credit System (H. Con. Res. 310), 6627 [8AP], 10454 [13MY], 10462 [14MY]-10463 [13MY], 10728, 10742, 10746 [14MY]

Biotechnology Science Coordinating Committee: establish (H.R. 4452), 5294-5296 [18MR]

Bovine growth hormone: prevent approval until certain information is made available to the Congress (H.R. 5122), 16312 [26JN]

Budget: impact of reductions, 5201 [18MR]

Business: marketing loans for wheat, feed grains, and soybeans, 25383 [23SE]

California: irrigation and drainage proposals, 12023 [22MY]

Campbell Soup Co.: Farm Labor Organizing Committee boycott, 14756 [19JN]

Canada: importation of certain beef products (H.R. 4591), 7562 [15AP], 9007 [29AP]

Carolinas Cotton Growers Association, Inc.: relief (H.R. 5152), 16256 [26JN]

Casein: impact of imports, 11364 [20MY]

Cattle markets: futures trading, 16244 [26JN]

CCC Charter Act: amend (H.R. 5386), 20575 [11AU]

Census: eliminate drainage (H.R. 2722), 30198 [10OC]

Central Valley, CA: coordinate certain water projects (H.R. 3113), appointment of conferees, 18373 [31JY]

———coordinate certain water projects (H.R. 3113), conference report, 30746 [14OC], 30750 [16OC]-30751 [14OC]

CFTC: reauthorization, 16244 [26JN]

Chocolate: tariff (H. Res. 567), 27334 [30SE]

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act: enact, 8551 [23AP]

Commodities: crop loan rates, 4611 [12MR]

———funds for storage facilities, 17670 [24JY]

Commodity Supplemental Food Program: appropriations, 15241 [24JN]

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), 2110 [18FE], 2112, 2113 [19FE], 3595 [5MR], 3603 [6MR]-3610-3615 [5MR]

———extend (H.R. 2418), S. 1282 passed in lieu, 3615 [5MR]

———extend (S. 1282), title correction, 3615 [5MR]

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: amend (H.R. 5317), 18850 [1AU]

Cooperative Extension Service: funding, 4199 [11MR], 4870 [13MR], 8051 [17AP], 8466-8470 [23AP], 8841 [28AP]

Cotton: modify cross compliance requirements for producers of extra-long staple (H.R. 5356), 19890 [7AU]

———price support program (H.R. 4177), 2263 [19FE]

Cows: surplus, 3594 [5MR]

Credit: emergency farm assistance, 3021 [27FE]

———provide for emergency, 1782 [5FE]

Crop Insurance Act: enact (H.R. 5605), 26577 [26SE]

Dairy farms: differential in treatment of certain, 2109 [18FE]

Dairy industry: minimize adverse economic effects from herd buy-out (H. Res. 414), 6830 [9AP], 7248 [10AP]

———price supports, 11364 [20MY]

———product sales record, 16284 [26JN]

Dairy Price Support Program: impact of use of bovine growth hormone, 15659 [26JN]

Dairy products: health benefits, 3026 [27FE]

Dairy Target Price Act: enact, 28667 [3OC]

Dairy Termination Program: impact on U.S. cattle industry, 9007 [29AP]

Dept. of Agriculture: consolidate and improve emergency livestock feed assistance programs (H.R. 4455), 5596 [19MR]

———Cooperative Extension Service funds (H. Res. 413), 7094 [10AP]

———crop yield guidelines, 1319 [30JA]

———making appropriations, 15242 [24JN]

———prohibit foreigners from receiving certain benefits (H.R. 4519), 9165 [30AP]

Dept. of Defense: preference for U.S. agricultural products in commissary food purchases (H.R. 4428), 21422 [13AU]

Dept. of the Interior: prohibit from settling Westlands v. U.S. water irrigation lawsuit out of court, 18850 [1AU]

Disasters: allow tax deductions for charitable contributions of farmers, 18830 [1AU]

———assistance for Southern farmer drought victims, 19013 [5AU]

———charitable contributions of farmers to victims of drought, 18830 [1AU]

———emergency assistance to farmers and ranchers for drought relief, 19896 [8AU]

———emergency assistance to farmers and ranchers for drought relief (H.R. 5288), 19018-19025 [5AU], 19343 [6AU], 19615 [6AU]

———Federal aid to drought stricken farmers, 21140 [13AU]

———tribute to Midwest for assisting Southeast drought victims, 18255 [31JY]

Drought: emergency relief (H.R. 5288), 21634 [14AU]

Economic conditions: assistance programs (H.R. 2100), 13765-13768 [17JN]

———crisis, 219 [22JA], 1001 [29JA], 1994 [6FE], 3025 [27FE], 3593 [5MR], 3755 [5MR], 3807 [6MR], 5201 [18MR], 8349 [22AP], 22644 [10SE], 24775 [19SE]

———deficiency payment regulations (H.R. 5441), 22127 [15AU]

———foreign trade deficit, 32716 [17OC]

———impact of U.S. policy in Latin America, 23366 [16SE]

———interest rates on loans, 25883 [24SE]

———loan repayment schedules, 219 [22JA]

———lower interest farm loans, 659 [29JA]

EEC: foreign trade, 21141 [13AU]

———impact of entry of Spain and Portugal on restrictions on U.S. agricultural exports, 8445 [23AP]

———impact on trade of accession of Spain and Portugal, 1998 [6FE]

Eggs: protect producers business interests (H.R. 5061), 14640 [19JN]

El Dorado County, CA: authorize sale of the Sly Park unit (H.R. 5093), 15646 [25JN]

Elderly Feeding Program: Dept. of Agriculture nutrition data, 21452 [13AU]

Emergency Farm Income and Credit Act: enact, 5872 [20MR]

———enact (H.R. 4267), 3255, 3264, 3272, 3273 [27FE]

Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 4455), 5857 [20MR], 5988 [21MR]

Energy Incentives and Agricultural Financial Resources Act: enact, 7421 [14AP]

———enact (H.R. 4553), 6833 [9AP]

EPA: experimental use of Frostban, 3838 [6MR]

———strengthen provisions protecting drinking water and groundwater from pesticides, 23948 [18SE]

European Parliament: agricultural policy, 9476 [5MY]

Eximbank: promotion of foreign agriculture, 16518 [15JY]

Export Enhancement Program: terminate, 1998 [6FE]

———trade proposals, 22170 [15AU]

Farm commodities: payments for program and non-program crops (H.R. 4079), 1807 [5FE], 3019 [27FE]

Farm Credit Act: amend (H.R. 5635), 28671 [3OC], 28770 [6OC], 28775 [8OC]-28776 [6OC], 29401 [7OC]

Farm Credit Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 4626), 7879 [17AP]

Farm Credit Enhancement Act: enact (H.R. 4984), 18021 [29JY]

Farm Credit System: interest rate relief (H.R. 5635), 28770-28776 [6OC]

———restructure (H. Con. Res. 310), 6627 [8AP], 7103 [10AP], 10454 [13MY], 10462 [14MY]-10463 [13MY], 10728, 10742, 10746 [14MY]

Farm Credit System Borrower Interest Rate Relief Act: enact (H.R. 5497), 22762 [10SE]

Farm Credit System Borrowers Rights Act: enact (H.R. 4631), 8022 [17AP]

Farm Income Security Act: enact (H.R. 4909), 12015 [22MY]

Farm loans: FmHA and FDIC pilot program to re-sell and re-structure, from failed banks, 33629 [17OC]

Farm Mortgage Marketing Corp. Act: enact (H.R. 5132), 16250 [26JN]

Farm produce: market loans for wheat, feed grains, and soybeans (H.R. 5483), 22236 [8SE]

Farm property: exclusion of certain from gross income and discharge of indebtedness provisions (H.R. 4080), 1006 [29JA]

Farm Workers' Legal Services: validity of accusations of violations of farm worker's rights, 27399-27401 [30SE]

Farmers: diverting acreage in return for payments-in-kind provisions (H. Con. Res. 360), 14871 [20JN]

———encourage delivery of services to dislocated (H.R. 5062), 14862-14864, 14865, 14868 [20JN]

———subsidy programs, 14977 [23JN]

FDA: approval of irradiation treatment, 8852 [29AP]

Federal aid programs: revise terms (H.R. 4306), 3814-3817 [6MR], 3825 [10MR]

———revise terms (H.R. 4306), legislative procedure, 3817-3818 [6MR]

Federal Food Assistance Programs: funding, 22149 [15AU]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (H.R. 2482), 23279 [12SE], 23645-23657, 23662 [17SE], 23851 [17SE], 23948, 24144-24154 [18SE], 24727, 24731 [19SE], 24754 [23SE]-24771 [19SE]-25708 [23SE], 28681 [3OC], 32273 [16OC], 32303 [18OC]-32310 [16OC], 33614 [17OC]-33915 [18OC]

———amend (H.R. 2482), authorizing technical corrections, 24771 [19SE]

———amend (H.R. 4364), 4585 [12MR]

———amend (H.R. 5440), 23851 [17SE]

———cost sharing process for data base management (H.R. 4440), 5296 [18MR]

Federal power agencies: support continuation of marketing policies (H. Res. 406), 5858 [20MR]

Feed grains: modify basis for determination of deficiency payments (H.R. 4456), 5585 [19MR]

———price support program, 3026 [27FE]

———price support program (H.R. 4177), 2263 [19FE]

———program requirements (S. 2096), 1803 [5FE]

FHA: compensation for injury in connection with home loans (H.R. 1260), 10245 [9MY]

———making continuing appropriations (S.J. Res. 353), 27448 [30SE]

Food: regulate experimentation, 3838 [6MR]

Food additives: uniform regulations, 24754 [19SE]

Food Security Act: amend (S. 2036), technical corrections, 1451 [4FE]

Food Security Improvements Act: enact (H.R. 1614), 3819 [6MR], 3825 [10MR]-3835 [6MR]

———enact (H.R. 1614), enrollment corrections (S. Con. Res. 114), 4240 [11MR]

Foreign trade: ban imports of food from countries affected by radioactive contamination from Soviet power plant accident (H.J. Res. 622), 9489 [6MY]

———deficit, 16457 [15JY]

———Export Enhancement Program for agricultural exports, 24706 [18SE]

———export problems for farm products, 22164 [15AU]

———export-import policy, 1944 [6FE]

———exports, 8208 [21AP], 8445 [23AP], 27323 [30SE]

———foreign investment in dairy production, 6794 [8AP]

———impact of imports, 11592 [21MY], 24775 [19SE]

———implement international conference on world farm trade policy, 22047 [15AU]

———import fees and the domestic market, 21433 [13AU]

———U.S. policy, 10507 [13MY], 11363 [20MY], 16657 [16JY], 18254, 18255, 18257, 18258 [31JY], 18655, 18659, 18666 [1AU], 18858 [4AU], 19341 [6AU]

Forest Ecosystems and Atmospheric Pollution Research Act: enact (H.R. 2631), 21152-21158 [13AU]

Fresno, CA: Westlands Water District irrigation project, 5864-5865 [20MR]

GATT: framework for negotiations, 20574 [11AU]

Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Act: enact (H.R. 4216), 25415 [23SE]

Grain: improve quality (H.R. 5407), 25181-25187 [22SE]

———improve standards (H.R. 5354), 19643 [7AU]

———regulation of dockage and foreign material content (H.R. 5407), 25181-25187 [22SE]

———revise quality standards, 22235 [8SE]

Grain Quality Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 4714), 9161 [30AP]

———enact (H.R. 5407), 25181-25187 [22SE]

Hunger: commodity distribution programs, 12292 [3JN]

Idaho: authorize construction and operation of northside pumping division extension of Minidoka project (H.R. 4844), 11105 [15MY]

Immigration Control and Legalization Amendments Act: enact, 26403 [29SE]

Imports: economic impact, 18254 [31JY]

Industrial development bonds: eliminate tax-exempt status when financing farm property for foreign investors (H.R. 4520), 9165 [30AP]

INS: restrict access of enforcement officers from certain agricultural property, 30055-30059 [9OC]

Insects: pesticide resistance management program, 24748 [19SE]

International Fund for Agricultural Development: U.S. participation, 26576 [26SE]

Interstate commerce: uniform chemical tolerance levels, 24753 [19SE]

Investments: cattle futures, 16687-16695 [16JY]

———tax treatment, 13049 [10JN]

Irrigation subsidies: terminate for surplus crops, 22739 [10SE]

Japan: exports, 3812 [6MR]

Job Training Partnership Act: amend (H.R. 5062), 14862-14864, 14865, 14868 [20JN]

June Dairy Month: observance, 16400 [14JY]

Kiwi fruit: impose de minimus import duty (H.R. 5359), 20189 [8AU]

Labor: field sanitation standards, 30844 [14OC]

———sanitation facilities for fieldworkers, 231 [22JA]

———worker rights, 11364, 11374, 11439 [20MY], 11541, 11596 [21MY]

Merchant marine: cargo preference requirements, 4198 [11MR]

Mexico: allow cattle to be slaughtered and returned to U.S. (H.R. 4744), 33940 [6NO]

Michigan: anniversary of Perry Morrice Future Farmers of America, 8418 [22AP]

———disaster relief, 28039 [2OC]

Microenterprise Promotion Act: enact (H.R. 4894), 12004 [22MY]

Migrant farm workers: legal representation, 27399-27401 [30SE]

Milk: prevent use of tax-free industrial bonds to finance increased production (H.R. 4807), 10556 [13MY]

———price adjustments (H.R. 4232), 2672 [25FE], 13899 [17JN]

———price support program, 3829-3835 [6MR]

———price support program (H.R. 4188), 3063-3068, 3080-3088, 3089-3091 [27FE], 3275-3282 [28FE], 3377, 3378 [3MR], 3447, 3469-3474 [4MR], 3813 [6MR]

———price support program (H.R. 4265), 3641 [5MR]

———price support program (H.R. 4265), suspension of sequestration order, 3092-3097 [27FE]

———regional price differential, 2109 [18FE]

———require Dept. of Agriculture analysis of effect of bovine growth hormone on price support program and industry (H.R. 5563), 25091 [19SE]

———use of bovine growth hormone to achieve increased production, 15659 [26JN]

Milk Marketing Control Act: enact (H.R. 4148), 2021 [6FE], 3593 [5MR]

National 4-H Week: observance, 28700 [3OC]

National Agricultural Export Week: designate (S.J. Res. 310), 13250 [11JN]

———observance, 14216, 14217 [17JN]

National Agriculture Day: observance, 5851, 5852, 5860, 5872 [20MR]

National Dairy Promotion and Research Board: anniversary, 16284 [26JN], 16400 [14JY]

National Future Farmers of America Week: observance, 2228 [18FE]

National Guard: authority to transport livestock feed, etc. to drought-stricken areas of Southeastern U.S., 21659 [14AU]

National Raisin Week: observance, 10555 [13MY]

Natural resources: Congressional Research Service study relative to subsidization, 3007 [26FE]

New Zealand: Continental Grain Co. feed barley imports, 5993 [21MR]

Nigeria: Agency for International Development Joint Agricultural Consultative Corp. funding for agribusiness, 7603 [15AP]

North Dakota: reauthorize Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project (H.R. 1116), 6152 [25MR], 7876 [17AP], 8194-8200 [21AP], 8447-8451 [23AP]

Northeast Agriculture Caucus: relief efforts for Southeastern drought victims, 18248 [30JY]

Older American Act Nutrition Program: appropriations, 15241 [24JN]

OPIC: prohibit from supporting citrus exports (H.R. 4423), 5088 [17MR]

Optimal Grain Grading Act: enact (H.R. 5354), 19643 [7AU]

OSHA: working conditions for certain laborers, 7119 [10AP]

Packers and Stockyards Act: amend, 8562 [23AP]

Papago Tribe: settlement of certain claims relative to construction of Tat Momolikot Dam (H.R. 4217), 25418 [23SE]

———settlement of certain claims relative to operations of Painted Rock Dam (H.R. 4216), 25415 [23SE]

Pesticides: ban on dinoseb, 30844 [14OC]

———contamination liability, 24746 [19SE]

———develop methods for testing to detect neurotoxic and behaviorial effects, 24730 [19SE]

Philippines: restore sugar quota (H.R. 5512), 23853 [17SE]

Postal service: prohibit use of mail for transport of plant materials containing agricultural pests, 30396 [10OC]

Poultry industry: protect business interests (H.R. 5061), 14640 [19JN]

Processed Products Inspection Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 4683), 8575 [23AP]

Production, 13749 [16JN]

Radioactive pollution: ban food or drink imports from countries contaminated by Soviet power plant accident (H.J. Res. 622), 9489 [6MY]

REA: opposing elimination of loan programs (H. Res. 405), 5858 [20MR]

Reagan, President: State of the Union Message, 1747 [5FE]

———summit meeting negotiations with Soviet Union, 29964 [9OC]

Rice: price support program (H.R. 4177), 2263 [19FE]

Riverside, CA: new Dept. of Agriculture Salinity Research Laboratory, 17328 [22JY]

Rural Industrial Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 4331), 3837 [6MR]

Sacramento, CA: anniversary of La Cooperativa Campesina de California, 23025 [11SE]

Save the Family Farm Act: enact, 26378 [25SE]

SBA: Set-Aside Program, 19014 [5AU]

Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, 30186 [10OC]

Small Business Disaster Loan Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 4854), 11471 [20MY]

Soil Conservation Service: funding, 9701 [6MY]

Somerset County, PA: volunteer relief efforts for Southeastern drought victims, 21135 [12AU]

South Carolina: donations of hay from Midwest farmers, 17531 [23JY]

South Dakota: denial of Dept. of Agriculture disaster assistance, 1793 [5FE]

Southeastern drought: Northeast Agriculture Caucus relief efforts, 18248 [30JY]

———relief, 21455 [13AU]

Soviet Union: administration offer to subsidize grain sales, 21451 [13AU]

———grain purchase agreement, 29230, 29231, 29232, 29233 [7OC]

———grain sales, 19343 [6AU]

———U.S. subsidy for wheat exported, 21752 [14AU]

———wheat sale, 19016 [5AU]

Strawberries: experimental use of Frostban, 3838 [6MR]

Sub-Saharan Africa Natural Resource and Environmental Management Training and Education Act: enact (H.R. 4908), 11998 [22MY]

Sugar program: surplus sales to foreign countries, 22210 [15AU]

Surplus crops: prevent Federal irrigation subsidies, 27430 [30SE]

Taxation: provide for extension of time for filing income tax claims (H.R. 4617), 8043 [17AP]

———repeal certain record-keeping requirements (H.R. 1869), 210 [21JA]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act: amend (H.R. 5145), 19629 [6AU]

Thailand: trade policy, 8445 [23AP]

Tobacco industry: delay referendum and proclamation of national marketing quotas relative to certain crops of flue-cured tobacco (S. 2013), 434 [23JA]

———no-net-cost program, 3786, 3787 [6MR]

U.S. dollar: value, 6830 [9AP]

U.S.-EEC: trade agreement, 20574 [11AU]

———trade deficit and policy, 20575 [11AU]

``Vanishing Land'': depiction of food supply chain, 2117 [18FE]

Water resources: authorize Dept. of the Interior projects in U.S. territories and commonwealths (H.R. 4435), 5337 [18MR]

Wheat: modify basis for determination of deficiency payments (H.R. 4456), 5585 [19MR]

———price support program, 3026 [27FE]

———price support program (H.R. 4177), 2263 [19FE]

———program requirements (S. 2096), 1803 [5FE]

———referendum on national marketing quota (H.R. 1614), 3819 [6MR], 3825 [10MR]-3835 [6MR]

———referendum on national marketing quota (H.R. 1614), enrollment corrections (S. Con. Res. 114), 4240 [11MR]

World Food Day: designate (H.J. Res. 595), 7256 [10AP], 7810 [16AP]

———designate (S.J. Res. 296), 8333 [22AP]

———observance, 32695 [16OC]

Yam Day: observance, 11438 [20MY]

Remarks in Senate

Africa: assistance, 20525-20527 [11AU]

———economic assistance, 21282, 21325 [13AU]

Africanized bee: funding for blocking migration, 32549 [16OC], 33898 [6NO]

Agricultural Credit Act: enact (S. 2315), 7763 [16AP]

Agricultural Energy Bank Incentive Act: enact (S. 2231), 6313-6315-6317 [26MR], 6526 [27MR]

Agricultural Research Service: authorizing construction of a salinity laboratory (H.R. 5215), 33814 [18OC]

Agricultural Shipper Protection Act: enact (S. 2447), 10610 [14MY]

Agriculture: adjust basis of determination of wheat deficiency payments, 18745 [1AU]

———allow deduction for assistance extended to farmers in the Southeast (S. 2680), 17378 [23JY]

———casein and other milk protein imports effect on dairy farmers, 17728 [25JY]

———commend assistance extended to farmers in the Southeast (S. Res. 451), 17378 [23JY]

———Dairy Price Support Program, 12988 [9JN]

———establish Federal Credit Program Revolving Fund, 10080 [8MY]

———establish prominent persons group on international agricultural trade, 29407 [8OC]

———farm income tax averaging, 32345 [16OC]

———innovative ways of marketing products, 25102 [22SE]

———lower dairy price supports, 14449 [18JN]

———permit use of pesticides in compliance with registered uses without further research (S. 2704), 18571 [31JY]

———price and income protection for family farmers (S. 2869), 25842 [24SE]

———reimburse farmers for cost of transporting hay for disaster relief, 18733-18737 [1AU]

———set loan rates for soybeans, 18738-18739 [1AU]

Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations, 32496 [16OC]

AID: prohibit assistance to countries competing against U.S. agricultural exports, 28481 [3OC]

Aliens: exclusion of certain agricultural labor from Federal unemployment tax (H.R. 5679), 33817 [18OC]

American Bankers Association: task force on farm debt and credit problems, 1931 [6FE]

Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act: enact (S. 2407), 9652 [6MY]

Antibiotic Safety Act: enact (S. 2935), 32593 [16OC]

Argentina: World Bank loan to dismantle certain taxes applied to agricultural exports (S. Res. 397), 9910-9912 [7MY]

Armstrong, Harry: tribute, 5044 [14MR]

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: impact, 3117-3122 [27FE]

———impact on agricultural programs, 3735 [5MR]

Bankruptcy: economic relief for family farmers, 9985-9990 [8MY]

———extend chapter 13 for family farmers (H.R. 2211), S. 1923 language passed in lieu, 10016 [8MY]

Banks and banking: credit relief for farmers, 26553 [26SE]

———loan restructuring (S. Con. Res. 122), 6561 [27MR]

Beans: yields, 2072 [7FE]

Black, Charles A.: tribute, 16861 [17JY]

BLM: grazing fees, 2203 [18FE], 4125 [10MR]

———livestock grazing formula, 981 [29JA]

Camp, Wofford B.: tribute, 22516 [10SE]

Canada: beef subsidies, 4876 [14MR]

———imports of live cattle (S. 2336), 7993 [17AP]

Cane sugar: application of Tariff Act's drawback provisions to certain imports (S. 2637), 15987 [26JN]

Carolinas Cotton Growers Association, Inc.: relief (S. 2862), 25689 [23SE]

Cattle: pay restitution to certain producers (S. 2844), 25021 [19SE]

CCC: equity in grain storage rates (S. 2684), 17572 [24JY]

———funds for farm programs, 15318 [25JN]

———provide for research of external combustion engines, 12892 [6JN]

Central Valley, CA: coordinate certain water projects (H.R. 3113), 16543-16555 [16JY], 31304-31307 [15OC]

———coordinate certain water projects (H.R. 3113), appointment of conferees, 20391 [9AU]

CFTC: regulation of leverage transactions, 25830-25834 [24SE]

Children: reauthorize nutrition programs, 27575 [1OC]

China, People's Republic of: grain sale, 18680 [1AU]

Citrus canker: Federal-State program to detect and eradicate (S. Res. 376), 6564 [27MR]

———Federal-State program to detect and eradicate (S. Res. 377), 6565 [27MR]

Commodities: increase acreage placed in conservation reserve program (S. 2937), 32595 [16OC]

Commodity Credit Corp.: provide for use of surplus agricultural commodities, 28351 [3OC]

Commodity Exchange Act: nonapplicability to trading of cattle, 25824-25830 [24SE]

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (S. 1282), House amendments, 7313, 7315 [11AP]

Consumers: consumption of dairy products, 9566 [6MY]

Cooperative Extension Service: funding, 4174 [10MR]

Corporations: modify application of agricultural payment limitations to corporate stockholders, 18714-18720 [1AU]

Cotton: modify cross compliance requirements for producers of extra long staple type (S. 2721), 19575 [6AU], 21600 [14AU]

Credit: relief on interest rates on loans, 27570-27594 [1OC]

Dairy industry: funding for indemnity program, 12764 [5JN], 12910 [6JN]

———management programs, 8601 [24AP]

———minimize adverse economic effects from herd buyout, 10363 [13MY], 10640 [14MY]

———price support program (S. 2252), 6538-6540 [27MR]

Dairy Price Support Program: funding, 12988 [9JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: assistance to farmers and ranchers affected by drought, 18508-18527 [31JY], 18691, 18703, 18707, 18711-18714 [1AU], 20938 [12AU], 21328-21331 [13AU], 27570-27594 [1OC]

———authority for transfer of grain during extraordinary circumstances, 3701 [5MR]

———authority to make advance recourse loans, 3697-3700 [5MR]

———cap on farm payments, 32482-32485, 32492-32493 [16OC]

———computation of emergency compensation under the wheat program, 28403 [3OC]

———cross compliance for farm program commodities, 1216-1218 [30JA]

———deficiency payments to certain producers, 12678-12691 [5JN]

———delay producer referendum relative to flue-cured tobacco and delay announcement of burley tobacco marketing quotas (S. 2013), 294 [22JA]

———disaster assistance payments, 27933-27938 [2OC]

———disaster payments, 33203 [17OC]

———Export Enhancement Program, 17217-17223, 17226 [22JY], 17343 [23JY]

———farm programs, 6200 [26MR]

———foreign market development programs, 12798 [5JN]

———funding for extension programs, 28467 [3OC]

———funding for farm programs, 21270 [13AU]

———funds for price support program, 17095, 17096 [21JY], 17198, 17202-17205, 17218 [22JY]

———improve price supports (S. 2795), 22264 [8SE]

———make advanced deficiency payments for certain crops, 18465 [31JY]

———make State or regional dairy assessments proportional to sales to the CCC, 3702 [5MR]

———mandatory production controls and acreage reduction programs, 33473 [17OC]

———modify cross compliance requirements for producers of extra long staple cotton, 28403 [3OC]

———modify payment limitation for support payments, 27605-27610 [1OC]

———payments to certain cattle producers, 27570-27594 [1OC]

———prohibitions on production of nonprogram crops, 3116 [27FE]

———prohibitions on production of nonprogram crops (S. 2077), 2297-2300 [19FE]

———provide for announcement of availability of surplus commodities, 3702 [5MR]

———require to train farmers in advanced marketing techniques, 28917 [6OC]

———revise meat inspection requirements, 28907-28913 [6OC]

———revise price supports and related programs, 28907-28913 [6OC]

———sale of notes in the Rural Development Insurance Fund, 24915 [19SE]

———study on production limits for surplus crops, 16550 [16JY]

Dept. of Defense: subsidies for tobacco products, 4820 [13MR]

Dept. of the Interior: study on production limits for surplus crops, 16550 [16JY]

Disasters: emergency assistance to farmers and ranchers for drought relief (H.R. 5288), 19604 [6AU]

Dole, Senator: leadership on export of agricultural commodities, 22031 [15AU]

———suggestions on topics to cover during summit meeting with Soviets, 16532 [16JY]

Drainage: eliminate decennial census (H.R. 2722), 26903 [29SE]

Drought: assistance to farmers and ranchers affected by drought, 21781 [15AU]

———emergency relief (H.R. 5288), 20543 [11AU]

Droughts: defer payments on loans from Farmers Home Administration (S. 2731), 20149 [8AU]

Economic assistance: U.S. goods and services to foreign countries instead of direct cash grants (S. 2605), 15966 [26JN]

Economic conditions: allow deduction for assistance extended to farmers in the Southeast (S. 2680), 17378 [23JY]

———commend assistance extended to farmers in the Southeast (S. Res. 451), 17378 [23JY]

———crisis, 1825-1827 [6FE], 5706 [20MR], 5932 [21MR], 12051 [2JN], 12844 [6JN], 13548 [12JN], 13779 [16JN], 17065 [21JY], 17231 [22JY], 23046 [12SE], 33357 [17OC]

———establish prominent persons group on international agriculture trade, 29407 [8OC]

———impact of surplus commodities, 30468 [14OC]

———price and income protection for family farmers (S. 2869), 25842 [24SE]

———Southwestern States' farm and energy crises, 17592 [24JY]

———support and stabilize farm income (S. 1051), 30498 [14OC]

Education: importance of vocational training, 21780 [15AU]

EEC: agricultural products trade agreement, 22513 [10SE]

———agricultural trade talks, 8092 [21AP]

———restrictive trade practices (S. Con. Res. 129), 7915-7917 [17AP], 8545 [23AP], 8708 [24AP]

———trade policies, 2497 [20FE]

Entelt, Paula: tribute, 22463 [9SE]

EPA: conduct study with FDA on effects of DDT contamination of fish in Santa Monica Bay, CA, 28982 [6OC]

Family Farm Reorganization Act: enact (S. 2249), 6348 [26MR]

Family Farmer Bankruptcy Reform Act: enact (H.R. 2211), appointment of conferees, 13152 [10JN]

———enact (H.R. 2211), S. 1923 language passed in lieu, 10016 [8MY]

Farm Credit Act: amend, 31397 [15OC]

Farm Credit Administration: appointments by President Reagan, 2306 [19FE]

Farm Credit Assistance Act: enact (S. 2332), 7979 [17AP], 8265, 8275 [22AP], 8532 [23AP]

Farm Credit System: competitive interest rates, 33300, 33302-33305, 33309 [17OC]

———competitive interest rates (S. 2770), 21931-21932 [15AU], 28551 [3OC], 29519 [8OC]

———interest rate relief, 31397 [15OC]

———loan restructuring (S. Con. Res. 138), 10626 [14MY], 10751 [15MY]

———relieve financial crisis, 29578 [8OC], 33274-33283 [17OC]

Farm Credit System Interest Reduction Act: enact, 27292 [30SE]

———enact (S. 2899), 27686-27688 [1OC]

Farm Emergency Credit Act: enact (S. 2113), 2868 [26FE]

Farm Mortgage Marketing Restoration Act: enact (S. 2725), 19855 [7AU], 22608 [10SE]

Farmers: accounting methods, 14519 [19JN]

———equitable farm program payment yields (S. 2042), 1582 [4FE]

———extend financial protection to dairy and egg farmers (S. 2550), 13536 [12JN]

———lower dairy price supports, 14449 [18JN]

———meetings about agricultural economy, 13533 [12JN]

———require full payment for water use, 16550 [16JY]

———tax deductions for donations of agricultural products, 18685-18687 [1AU]

Farmers Home Administration: debt collection procedures, 23094 [12SE]

———divert certain Conrail funds to agricultural programs, 12901 [6JN]

———foreclosure policies, 252 [22JA], 2600 [24FE]

———funding for insured water and sewer facility loan programs, 27885 [2OC]

———improve Interest Rate Reduction Program, 12893 [6JN]

———loans for training in advanced marketing techniques (S. 2553), 13666-13669 [13JN]

———moratorium on prepayment of certain mortgages, 32494 [16OC]

———prohibit use of private agencies to collect delinquent debts, 33202 [17OC]

Farmland Protection Policy Act: amend to propose Federal assistance and State financing to save farm land (S. 2548), 13536 [12JN]

Federal aid: establish Federal Credit Program Revolving Fund, 10080 [8MY]

Federal Crop Insurance Act: amend (S. 2851), 25679 [23SE]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (H.R. 2482), 28994-29022 [6OC]

———amend (H.R. 2482), S. 2792 language passed in lieu, 28993 [6OC]

———amend (S. 2215), 5670-5680 [20MR], 5949 [21MR], 12257-12259 [3JN]

———amend (S. 2792), 23048 [12SE], 26553 [26SE], 28923-28993 [6OC]

Feed grains: adjustments in maximum payment limitation (S. 2767), 21919-21921 [15AU]

———deficiency payments (S. 2317), 7772 [16AP]

———rotation in producer reserve program (S. 2365), 8685 [24AP]

Food: reverse milk production termination program's impact on red meat market (S. Con. Res. 124), 7033 [9AP]

———sale and distribution of surplus commodities, 13669 [13JN]

Food for Peace Program: ensure funds shall be expended for intended purposes, 24899 [19SE]

Food Security Act: amend, 28342 [3OC]

———amend (S. 2036), 1216-1218 [30JA], 1703, 1744 [5FE], 2071 [7FE]

———local and county agricultural stabilization and conservation committees, 2072 [7FE]

———maintain formula price support loan rate for soybeans (S. Res. 453), 17761 [25JY]

———minimum quantities for section 416 donations, 33838 [18OC]

Food Security Improvements Act: enact (H.R. 1614), 4041-4044 [7MR], 4135-4140 [10MR], 4286-4289 [11MR], 5963 [21MR]

———enact (H.R. 1614), enrollment corrections (S. Con. Res. 113), 4132, 4170, 4175 [10MR]

———enact (H.R. 1614), enrollment corrections (S. Con. Res. 114), 4289 [11MR]

———enact (H.R. 1614), S. 2134 language passed in lieu, 3877 [6MR]

———enact (S. 2143), 3116-3122, 3160, 3163 [27FE], 3299-3316 [28FE], 3516, 3523-3538 [4MR], 3678, 3679, 3681-3688, 3689 [5MR]

Foreign countries: make foreign-controlled interests ineligible for Federal price supports (S. 2274), 7007 [9AP]

———preventing economic assistance from bolstering their export capacity, 15825 [26JN]

———purchase of U.S. commodities with economic assistance funds (S. 2605), 15966 [26JN]

Foreign investments: prohibit assistance under price support and related programs (S. 2310), 7497 [15AP]

Foreign trade: casein and other milk protein imports effect on dairy farmers, 17728 [25JY]

———decline in exports, 9984 [8MY]

———deficit, 16339 [14JY], 19753 [7AU]

———definition of industry in countervailing duty investigations involving certain processed products (S. 2244), 6347 [26MR]

———export enhancement program, 18143 [30JY]

———exports, 2497 [20FE]

———improve quality of exported grain (S. 2628), 17541 [24JY]

———improve quality of grain provided to foreign buyers, 28914-28916, 28918 [6OC]

———marketing loan policy, 21781 [15AU]

———opposition of multilateral assistance for foreign surplus commodities and minerals, 26467-26472 [26SE]

———policies, 33550 [17OC]

———positive impact of 1985 legislation, 26869 [27SE]

———prohibit assistance to countries exporting certain agricultural commodities, 12913 [6JN]

———prohibitions on economic assistance to countries in competition with U.S. commodities and minerals, 17205, 17208-17210, 17213, 17214 [22JY]

———promote export of commodities (S. Res. 448), 17128 [21JY]

———sale of U.S. barley to Romania, 26185 [25SE]

———U.S. grain sale to Soviet Union, 27129 [30SE]

FRS: make credit available for agricultural purposes (S. 2116), 3174 [27FE], 4170 [10MR]

Futures Trading Act: enact (H.R. 4613), 28920-28922 [6OC]

———enact (H.R. 4613), S. 2045 language passed in lieu, 28920 [6OC]

———enact (S. 2045), 1588-1599 [4FE], 25817-25834 [24SE], 28906, 28918-28920 [6OC]

GAO: require study of marketing practices of the Farmers Home Administration, 28917 [6OC]

———require study of trading in cattle futures, 28916 [6OC]

Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Act: enact (H.R. 4216), 27641 [1OC], 28552 [3OC]

Government: loan assets sale, 33295 [17OC]

———policies, 33464 [17OC]

Grain: storage, 16535 [16JY], 19467 [6AU], 19753 [7AU], 20938 [12AU]

Grain Marketing Act: enact (S. 2847), 25097-25100 [22SE]

Health: hazards of smokeless tobacco use, 6137 [25MR]

Hedland, Merle: tribute, 29598 [8OC]

Hunger: establish food distribution projects, 18685 [1AU]

———increase domestic commodities assistance and dispose of surplus commodities to certain countries, 28383-28386, 28456 [3OC]

Independent Bankers Association of America: task force on farm debt and credit problems, 1931 [6FE]

Indiana Farm Bureau: award recipients, 7789 [16AP]

Industry: attract for relocation, 18136 [30JY]

———innovative ways of marketing products, 25102 [22SE]

Insects: funding for blocking of migration of Africanized bees, 27907 [2OC]

Japan: market liberalization for U.S. tobacco products, 6065 [25MR]

———trade practices relative to U.S. tobacco products, 18051 [30JY]

Kemper, Alan R.: tribute, 5044 [14MR]

Landowner Protection Act: enact (S. 2144), 3722-3726 [5MR]

Latin America: exports, 13548 [12JN]

Layman, Horace M.: tribute, 17932 [29JY]

Livestock: eliminate cattle as a subject for trading on commodity futures market (S. 2737), 20556 [11AU]

Livestock industry: CCC funds for red meat purchase program, 15828 [26JN]

Meat: encourage consumption (S. Res. 370), 5684-5689 [20MR]

Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Improvement Act: enact (S. 2622), 15873-15898 [26JN]

Meat packaging industry: determine manner and frequency of inspection (S. 2675), 17241-17243 [22JY]

Michigan Farmers' Hall of Fame: tribute, 22032 [15AU]

Milk: contamination of supplies with heptachlor, 5005 [14MR]

———price support program (S. 2085), 2545, 2546 [20FE], 3158-3160, 3164 [27FE]

———production termination program, 7131, 7160-7168 [10AP]

———production termination program (S. 2280), 7142-7144 [10AP], 10641 [14MY]

———production termination program (S. 2284), 7193-7194 [10AP]

———production termination program (S. 2292), 7337 [11AP]

———production termination program (S. Res. 379), 7200 [10AP]

———repeal of increases in class I differentials (S. 2047), 1720 [5FE]

Narcotics: eliminate sugar quotas for countries involved in drug trafficking, 26722-26727 [27SE], 28919 [6OC]

National Agricultural Export Week: designate (S.J. Res. 310), 6356 [26MR]

———observance, 13771, 13781 [16JN], 14448 [18JN], 14833 [20JN]

National Agricultural Hall of Fame: dedication of farmers' memorial, 21469 [14AU]

National Agriculture Day: observance, 5605, 5611, 5612, 5614, 5707 [20MR], 5953 [21MR]

National Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy: recommendations on expanding exports, 14306 [18JN]

National Cooperative Business Association: tribute, 8603 [24AP]

National Dairy Month: observance, 12963 [6JN], 13867 [16JN], 16005 [26JN]

National Dairy Promotion and Research Board: promotion of dairy products, 16636 [16JY]

National Food Bank Week: designate (S.J. 333), 8944 [29AP]

———designate (S.J. Res. 301), 5682 [20MR]

National forests: illegal cultivation of marihuana, 26804-26807 [27SE]

National Future Farmers of America Week: observance, 2146 [18FE]

National Nutrition Month: observance, 5612 [20MR]

National Rural Development Corp.: provide for use of designated funds, 28348 [3OC]

National Watermelon Association: Watermelon Feast on Capitol Hill, 17407 [23JY]

Nelson, Don: tribute, 20566 [11AU]

New Zealand: impact of grain sales to U.S., 5406 [19MR]

Nicaragua: economic assistance (S. 2343), 8119 [21AP]

North Dakota: reauthorize Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project (H.R. 1116), 8776 [28AP]

Office of Emergency Aid for Farm Families: establish (S. 2617), 15984 [26JN]

Papago Tribe: settlement of certain claims relative to construction of Tat Momolikot Dam (H.R. 4217), 27642 [1OC], 28553 [3OC]

———settlement of certain claims relative to operations of Painted Rock Dam (H.R. 4216), 27641 [1OC], 28552 [3OC]

Pesticide Price Competition Act: enact (S. 2872), 25845 [24SE]

Pesticide Reform Act: enact (S. 2346), 8126 [21AP]

Pesticides: allow abbreviated applications for registration, 28979-28982 [6OC]

———allow for placement of notices of pesticides with canceled registration, 28982 [6OC]

———authority for States to set uniform tolerance levels, 28950 [6OC]

———data compensation in patent arbitration cases, 28971-28973 [6OC]

———ground water protection, 28935-28948 [6OC]

———liability for damages, 28934 [6OC]

———overuse, 13275 [11JN]

———permit Federal agencies to use registered products without duplicating research and analysis of health effects, 28983 [6OC]

———permit use in compliance with registered uses without further research (S. 2704), 18571 [31JY]

———protection for consumers, 28974-28977 [6OC]

———provide an exception for a patent that claims only a method for manufacturing a pesticide, 28983 [6OC]

———require EPA to establish efficacy standards for antimicrobial control agents used to control pest micro-organism, 28948 [6OC]

———State regulation of sale or use of federally registered product or device, 28973 [6OC]

Philippines: economic assistance, 24813 [19SE]

———humanitarian assistance, 2186 [18FE]

———provide food assistance, 23886 [18SE]

Poland: authorize shipment of dried milk (S. Res. 394), 9419 [5MY]

———expenditure of funds from sale of surplus U.S. dairy products for construction projects, 27932 [2OC]

Price Support Improvements (S. 2795), 22265, 22266 [8SE]

Prices: commodity support programs, 2072 [7FE]

Progressive Farmer (magazine): tribute, 1678 [5FE]

Public finance: adjust basis of determination of wheat deficiency, 18745 [1AU]

———reimburse farmers for cost of transporting hay for disaster, 18733-18737 [1AU]

———set loan rates for soybeans, 18738-18739 [1AU]

Reagan, President: call on to seek to achieve a resolution with the Soviet Union on 1983 wheat agreement sales, 27952 [2OC]

———policies, 11267 [20MY]

Rural areas: correct procedures for establishment of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committees, 1216-1218 [30JA]

Rural Industrial Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 4331), 21892 [15AU]

San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act: enact (S. 2676), 17243-17247 [22JY]

Senate: consideration of unprinted legislation, 3117 [27FE]

Shoultz, Amber: Indiana Farm Bureau award recipient, 7789 [16AP]

Soil Conservation Service: funds, 15822 [26JN]

South Africa: economic sanctions, 21798-21801 [15AU]

———participation in agricultural export credit and promotion programs, 21831-21834 [15AU]

———transfer sugar quota, 21830 [15AU]

Soviet Union: encourage use of surplus U.S. beef for relief of victims of atomic power plant accident (S. Con. Res. 148), 13276 [11JN], 13718 [13JN]

———grain sale, 18680 [1AU], 18911 [4AU], 20940 [12AU]

———nuclear reactor accident, 16002 [26JN]

Soybeans: price support program (S. 2836)

Sprague, Merritt W.: tribute, 8608 [24AP]

Stwalley, Brian: Indiana Farm Bureau award recipient, 7789 [16AP]

Sugar: import restrictions (S. 2451), 10624 [14MY]

Sullivan, Elbrege: tribute, 5439 [19MR]

Tariff: extend suspension applicable to certain imported cantaloups (S. 2511), 12481 [4JN]

———treatment of meat products processed abroad from U.S. cattle (S. 2478), 11715 [21MY]

Tax Reform Act: impact, 4077-4079 [7MR]

Taxation: capital gains exclusion on certain farm property, 14393, 14395-14399 [18JN], 14931-14941 [23JN], 14992 [24JN]

———credit for B-stock losses due to failure of a production credit association (S. 2313), 7763 [16AP]

———deny tax-exempt financing through industrial development bonds to foreign-controlled interests (S. 2273), 7007 [9AP]

———discharge of certain farm indebtedness (S. 2221), 5939-5941 [21MR]

———farm income tax averaging, 32345 [16OC]

———impact of reform, 13271 [11JN]

———indexing of business property, 14545-14553 [19JN]

———loophole from cash method of accounting technique, 33907 [6NO]

———payment of duties on imported ethyl alcohol (S. 2051), 1725 [5FE]

———permit exemptions in sale of farmland developmental rights (S. 2549), 13536 [12JN]

———permit family farmers to use income averaging, 13798 [16JN]

———provide 15-year carryback of existing carryforwards of farmers, 14560 [19JN]

———relief for farmers who restructure debt, 14399-14401 [18JN]

———retain income averaging for noncorporate farmers and ranchers, 13626 [12JN], 13688-13695, 13703 [13JN]

———treatment of qualified indebtedness (S. Con. Res. 119), 5946 [21MR]

Temporary Emergency Grain Storage Act: enact (S. 2717), 19250 [5AU]

Tennessee: drought, 10566 [14MY]

U.S.-European Communities Agreement on Citrus and Pasta: implement (S. 2856), 25682, 25704 [23SE]

University of Georgia: plant complex carbohydrate research facility, 28482 [3OC]

Uruguay: negotiations on GATT, 23577 [16SE]

Weather: impact of drought in Southeast, 17344 [23JY]

Webb, J. Douglas: tribute, 17773 [25JY]

Westby, Niles: tribute, 4350 [11MR]

Wheat: adjustments in maximum payment limitation (S. 2767), 21919-21921 [15AU]

———deficiency payments (S. 2317), 7772 [16AP]

———determination of deficiency payments (S. 2193), 4811 [13MR]

———mandatory limits on production, 21904, 21905 [15AU]

———marketing quota referendum by producers (S. 2903), 27693 [1OC]

———referendum on national marketing quota, 15315 [25JN]

———referendum on national marketing quota (H.R. 1614), 5963 [21MR]

Wheat, feed grains, and soybeans: marketing loan, 23834 [17SE]

Wisconsin: cranberry industry, 10569 [14MY]

———tribute for hay airlift for economic crisis in Southeastern States, 17730 [25JY]

World Bank: loan to Argentina to dismantle certain taxes applied to agricultural exports (S. Res. 397), 9910-9912 [7MY]

World Food Day: designate (S.J. Res. 296), 4812 [13MR]

World Trade Forum: principles to govern U.S. trade policy, 9338 [1MY]

Yam Day: observance, 11353 [20MY]

Reports

Appraisal for Painted Rock Flood Control Project: Dept. of Defense (excerpt), 28552 [3OC]

Can Rural Communities Survive the Farm Crisis?: National Association of Development Organizations, 16890 [17JY]

Central Valley, CA, Water Project: Committee on Energy (excerpt), 16545-16548 [16JY]

Draft Livestock Industry Comments on the Grazing Fee Review and Evaluation Report From the Secs. of Agriculture and the Interior, 10341-10344 [12MY]

Existing Emergency Feed Programs: Dept. of Agriculture, 1794-1795 [5FE]

Federal Food and Drugs Act: House report (1906 excerpt), 24754 [23SE]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: White House Conference of Food, Nutrition and Health (excerpt), 24754 [23SE]

Garrison Diversion Unit Irrigation Project, ND: Dept. of Agriculture, 8454 [23AP]

GATT Reform: National Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy (excerpt), 24779 [19SE]

Governing the Heartland—Can Rural Communities Survive the Farm Crisis? (summary), 15977 [26JN]

Hunger Teleconference Report—Executive Summary, 8029 [17AP]

Impact of the Finance Committee Tax Bill on Family Farming and a Comparison With the House Bill and Current Law: Center for Rural Affairs, 14550 [19JN]

Implementing the Conservation Reserve Program: Michael Dicks and Katherine Reichelderfer, 32596-32598 [16OC]

Minimum Quantities (excerpt), 33838 [18OC]

National Uniformity for Pesticide Residue Tolerances: Library of Congress, 28928 [6OC]

State of the World: Worldwatch Institute (excerpt), 18681 [1AU]

Reports by conference committees

Coordinated Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project in California (H.R. 3113), 30730-30734 [14OC]

Reports filed

Agriculture and Rural Development Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5177) (S. Rept. 99-438), 22847 [11SE]

Agriculture and Rural Development Programs Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 5177) (H. Rept. 99-686), 16745 [16JY]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 5177; H. Res. 701) (H. Rept. 99-701), 17316 [22JY]

Air Pollution and Decline in U.S. Forest Productivity: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 2631) (H. Rept. 99-776), 19951 [8AU]

Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2407) (S. Rept. 99-448), 23819 [17SE]

Authorize Construction of Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA: Committee on Agriculture (H. Rept. 99-966), 28331 [3OC]

Central Valley Project, CA, Coordinated Operation With State Water Project: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (H.R. 3113) (S. Rept. 99-265), 6130 [25MR]

Commodity Exchange Act Appropriations: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 4613) (H. Rept. 99-624), 12982 [9JN]

———Committee on Agriculture (S. 2054) (S. Rept. 99-291), 8939 [29AP]

Coordination of Certain Water Projects, Central Valley, CA: committee of conference (H.R. 3113) (H. Rept. 99-991), 31219 [14OC]

Dept. of Agriculture's Sugar Sales Operation: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-889), 26369 [25SE]

Designate Hands Across America Day: Committee on the Judiciary (H.J. Res. 462), 8683 [24AP]

Designate National Agricultural Export Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 310), 7956 [17AP]

Designate National Independent Retail Grocer Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 263), 5664 [20MR]

Designate National Outreach to the Rural Disabled Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 406), 22848 [11SE]

Designate World Food Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 296), 5664 [20MR]

Elimination of Requirement Relating to Decennial Censuses of Drainage: Committee on Governmental Affairs (H.R. 2722) (S. Rept. 99-451), 24968 [19SE]

Emergency Assistance to Farmers and Ranchers Affected by Drought: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 5288) (S. Rept. 99-737), 18908 [4AU]

Enhancement of Exports of Agricultural Commodities: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 5242) (S. Rept. 99-736), 18908 [4AU]

Establish Farm Program Payment Yields for Rice, Cotton and Wheat Programs: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 4105) (H. Rept. 99-480), 3388 [3MR]

Establish Institutes of Rural Technology Development: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (H.R. 4331), 20922 [12AU]

Extension of Term of Patents for Agricultural and Chemical Products for Period of Regulatory Review: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 5536) (H. Rept. 99-895), 26369 [25SE]

Farm Credit Administration's Role in System's Crisis (H. Rept. 99-561), 8886 [29AP]

FDIC Actions With Respect to Agricultural and Energy Banks on Debt Restructuring: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. 2231), 6313 [26MR]

Federal Grazing Program—All Is Not Well on the Range: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-593), 10214 [8MY]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 2482) (H. Rept. 99-695), 17054 [21JY]

———Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 2792) (S. Rept. 99-424), 22264 [8SE]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 2482; H. Res. 536) (H. Rept. 99-803), 22143 [15AU]

Futures Trading Act: committee of conference (H.R. 4613) (H. Rept. 99-995), 31219 [14OC]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 4613; H. Res. 590) (H. Rept. 99-996), 31219 [14OC]

Garrison Diversion Unit Irrigation Project, ND: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (H. 1116) (H. Rept. 99-525), 6928 [9AP]

Garrison Diversion Unit Irrigation Project, ND, Reauthorization: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (H.R. 1116) (H. Rept. 99-525), 8410 [22AP]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 1116; H. Res. 422) (H. Rept. 99-538), 7689 [16AP]

Implementation of the Dairy Cow Termination Program: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-890), 26369 [25SE]

Interest Rates: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 5635) (H. Rept. 99-967), 28331 [3OC]

Modify Cross Compliance Requirements for Producers of Extra Long Staple Cotton: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 2721), 21593 [14AU]

Nonprogram Crop Definition Modification: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 4079) (H. Rept. 99-479), 3388 [3MR]

Policy of Providing Grain of High Quality to Domestic and Foreign Buyers, Standards on Grain, Regulate Foreign Material in Grain (H.R. 5407) (H. Rept. 99-858), 25373 [22SE]

Reduction in Expenditures of Milk Price Support Activities: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 4188) (H. Rept. 99-475), 2976 [26FE]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 4188; H. Res. 381) (H. Rept. 99-477), 2977 [26FE]

Revise Terms of Certain Agricultural Programs: Committee on Rules (H.R. 4306; H. Res. 391) (H. Rept. 99-485), 3852 [6MR]

Settlement of Water Rights of La Jolla, Rincon, San Pasqual, Puama, and Pala Bands of Mission Indians, San Diego County, CA: Committee on Indian Affairs (Select) (S. 2676), 25611 [23SE]

Tropical Forest Protection in Developing Countries: Committee on Foreign Affairs (H.R. 2957) (H. Rept. 99-476), 2977 [26FE]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Soil Conservation, 4598 [12MR]

Resolutions by organizations

Agricultural census data: Census Advisory Committee on Agricultural Statistics, 15390 [25JN]

Export enhancement program: Midwest Association of State Departments of Agriculture, 18143 [30JY]

———Minnesota Agri-Growth Council Board of Directors, 18143 [30JY]

Export of agricultural commodities: Midwest Association of State Departments of Agriculture, 22031 [15AU]

———Minnesota Agri-Growth Council, 22031 [15AU]

Rulings of the Chair

Community and migrant health centers programs: extend (H.R. 2418), 3604, 3612 [5MR]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: amend (H.R. 2482), 24729, 24769 [19SE]

Statements

Death in the Heartland: Minnesota American Lutheran Church congregations, 9361 [1MY]

Farm Credit: FDIC (excerpt), 3617 [5MR]

———IBAA-American Bankers Association Task Force on Credit, 3617 [5MR]

Farm Credit System Interest Rates, 28774 [6OC]

Farm Credit System Proposes To Use Deferred Loss Accounting: Allerton Smith, 33277 [17OC]

Foreign Market Development, 12799 [5JN]

Loans to Argentina: World Bank, 10570 [14MY]

Maintaining Price Support Loan Rate for Soybeans: Senator Bumpers, 23913 [18SE]

Marketing Loan for Wheat, Feed Grains, and Soybeans (sundry excerpts), 23834 [17SE]

Milk Price Support Program: Democratic Party (excerpt), 3064 [27FE]

Niles Westby: Clark Westby, 4350 [11MR]

———sundry, 4351 [11MR]

Preservation of Family Farming: Harold Breimeir, 14550 [19JN]

Problems of Noncommercial Farmers: Dept. of Agriculture, 8685 [24AP]

Report of Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on the Health Consequences of Using Smokeless Tobacco: C. Everett Koop, 6138 [25MR]

———Senator Lugar, 6138 [25MR]

Secretary Lyng Expands Programs To Aid Drought-Stricken S.E. Farmers, 18703 [1AU]

Selected System Comments on Farm Credit Act Capital Adequacy Regulations: Farm Credit System, 33280 [17OC]

Stauffer Chemical Co. v. PPG Industries: Congressional Research Service, 28979 [6OC]

———Library of Congress, 25845 [24SE]

Tax Codes for Development of Surplus Crops: Center for Rural Affairs, 4077 [7MR]

U.S. Trade and the Agricultural Community: Representative Siljander, 10344 [12MY]

U.S. Trade Policy: Caterpillar Tractor, 11883 [22MY]

Unity and Reconciliation: Nicaraguan Catholic bishops (excerpt), 8120 [21AP]

Work Regulations for Agricultural Laborers: William E. Brock III, Sec. of Labor, 7120 [10AP]

Workers' Rights: Representative Pease, 11377 [20MY]

Studies

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act—State and Local Food and Drug Programs: FDA (excerpt), 24754 [23SE]

Summaries

Emergency Farm Income and Credit Act (H.R. 4267), 3265 [27FE]

Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act (H.R. 4455), 5989 [21MR]

Farm Mortgage Marketing Corp. Act (H.R. 5132), 16250 [26JN]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act amendments (S. 2215), 5678 [20MR]

Food Security Improvements Act—major provisions (H.R. 1614), 4240 [11MR]

Governing the Heartland—Can Rural Communities Survive the Farm Crisis?, 12845 [6JN]

———Committee on Governmental Affairs, 13787 [16JN]

Grain Quality Improvement Act (H.R. 4714), 9161-9162 [30AP]

Nicaraguan Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter on Unity and Reconciliation: U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua, 8120 [21AP]

Pesticide Reform Act (S. 2346), 8140 [21AP]

Surveys

Survey Shows Worsening Farm Crisis: South Dakota State University, 1782 [5FE]

Tables

Agricultural income averaging, 14412 [18JN]

Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations (H.R. 5177), 17647-17650 [24JY]

CBO cost estimates for Food Security Improvements Act (S. 2143), 3160 [27FE]

CBO farm bill estimates—CCC-ACIF outlays, fiscal year 1986-88, 3696 [5MR]

Comparison of rules affecting leverage transaction merchants and futures commission merchants, 25830 [24SE]

Farmers Home Administration debt, 13669 [13JN]

Farmers Home Administration's program delinquencies, 13669 [13JN]

Formula for the Public Rangelands Improvement Act, 2204 [18FE]

Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project, 8194, 8196 [21AP]

Grazing fee formula, 2205 [18FE]

Income averaging for noncorporate farmers and ranchers, 13626 [12JN]

Nutrition program for the elderly—1985 payments: Dept. of Agriculture, 21453 [13AU]

Pesticide costs—the potential of generic savings, 28972 [6OC]

Projected cost of fiscal year 1987 HUD and farmers home programs, 10488 [13MY]

Real property tax effect on marginally profitable companies, 14937 [23JN]

Revenue sharing program (sundry), 8621, 8622, 8624, 8626, 8640 [24AP]

Value of U.S. agricultural exports to and imports from South Africa, 27850 [2OC]

What are Farmers Home Administration's folio characteristics for major farmer programs, 13668 [13JN]

Who got the big diversion payment bucks in 1984, 3120 [27FE]

Telegrams

Agricultural policies: U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua, 8121 [21AP]

Testimonies

Agricultural Economy: Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative Association, Inc., 13535 [12JN]

———Pennsylvania Farmers Association, 13534 [12JN]

———University of Pennsylvania, 13535 [12JN]

Authority for States To Set Uniform Tolerance Levels for Pesticides: Joseph Brennan, Governor of Maine, 28956 [6OC]

———Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 28957 [6OC]

———New York State Department of Health, 28954 [6OC]

———Orlo Ehart, 28958 [6OC]

———Richard W. Lowerre, 28959 [6OC]

Commercial Agricultural Operators Holding Debt Held by Farm Operators: American Farm Bureau Federation, 7764 [16AP]

EEC Agriculture Trade Practices: Archer D. Midland, 8709 [24AP]

Farmers Home Administration Foreclosure Policies: Vance L. Clark, 2600 [24FE]

Strengths in the Agricultural System: Richard E. Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture, 3879 [6MR]

Tax Reform and Excise Taxes: John H. Martini, 8020 [17AP]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 310, agricultural loans restructuring and interest rates, 10454 [13MY]

H. Con. Res. 310, restructure the Farm Credit System, 6628 [8AP]

H. Res. 405, opposing elimination of REA loan programs, 5858 [20MR]

H. Res. 406, support continuation of marketing policies of Federal power agencies, 5858 [20MR]

H. Res. 567, chocolate tariff, 27334 [30SE]

H.J. Res. 595, World Food Day, 7810 [16AP]

H.R. 1116, reauthorization of the irrigation project at the Garrison Diversion Unit, 8448-8451 [23AP]

H.R. 1116, reauthorize Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project, ND, 6153 [25MR]

H.R. 2418, extend community and migrant health centers programs, 2110 [18FE], 3603 [5MR]

H.R. 2453, increase authorizations for commodity distribution under the Older Americans Act, 1708 [5FE]

H.R. 2482, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 28994-29022 [6OC]

H.R. 2631, Forest Ecosystems and Atmospheric Pollution Research Act, 21152 [13AU]

H.R. 2722, eliminate decennial census of drainage, 26903 [29SE]

H.R. 4177, establish means of determining farm program payment yields for wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice programs, 2263 [19FE]

H.R. 4216, Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Act, 25415 [23SE]

H.R. 4241, Agricultural Loan Assistance Act, 3617 [5MR]

H.R. 4331, Rural Industrial Assistance Act, 3838 [6MR]

H.R. 4440, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act cost sharing process for data base management, 5296 [18MR]

H.R. 4455, Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act, 5857 [20MR]

H.R. 4609, Agricultural Credit Act, 7685 [16AP]

H.R. 4844, authorize construction and operation of northside pumping division extension of Minidoka project, Idaho, 11105 [15MY]

H.R. 4894, Microenterprise Promotion Act, 12004 [22MY]

H.R. 5132, Farm Mortgage Marketing Corp. Act, 16251 [26JN]

H.R. 5145, Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act, 19630 [6AU]

H.R. 5177, agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations, 17666-17669 [24JY]

H.R. 5215, authorizing construction of a salinity laboratory, 28776 [6OC]

H.R. 5288, emergency assistance to farmers and ranchers for drought relief, 19018-19020 [5AU]

H.R. 5407, Grain Quality Improvement Act, 25181 [22SE]

H.R. 5635, Farm Credit Act amendments, 28672 [3OC]

H.R. 5635, Farm Credit System interest rate relief, 28770 [6OC]

H.R. 5679, exclusion of certain alien agricultural laborers from Federal unemployment tax, 30103 [9OC]

H.R. 5705, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, 32225-32234 [16OC]

Packers and Stockyards Act amendments, 8563-8564 [23AP]

S. 1051, support and stabilize farm income, 30499-30501 [14OC]

S. 1282, community and migrant health centers programs, 7312 [11AP]

S. 2013, delay producer referendum relative to flue-cured tobacco and delay announcement of burley tobacco marketing quotas, 295 [22JA], 434 [23JA]

S. 2036, Food Security Act amendments, 1219 [30JA]

S. 2036, technical corrections to Food Security Act amendments, 1451 [4FE]

S. 2042, equitable farm program payment yields for crops, 1582 [4FE]

S. 2045, Futures Trading Act, 1588-1590 [4FE], 25817-25819 [24SE], 28906 [6OC]

S. 2047, repeal of increases in class I differentials for milk, 1720 [5FE]

S. 2077, prohibitions on production of nonprogram crops, 2298 [19FE]

S. 2085, milk price support program, 2546 [20FE]

S. 2113, Farm Emergency Credit Act, 2868 [26FE]

S. 2143, Food Security Improvements Act, 3309-3312 [28FE], 3526-3528 [4MR], 3687, 3707-3710 [5MR]

S. 2144, Landowner Protection Act, 3723 [5MR]

S. 2193, determination of deficiency wheat payments, 4812 [13MR]

S. 2208, milk production termination program, 7143 [10AP]

S. 2215, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act amendments, 5670-5678 [20MR]

S. 2244, definition of industry in countervailing duty investigations involving certain processed products, 6347 [26MR]

S. 2249, Family Farm Reorganization Act, 6348-6352 [26MR]

S. 2252, dairy industry price support program, 6539 [27MR]

S. 2273, deny foreign interests tax-exempt financing through industrial development bonds, 7008 [9AP]

S. 2274, make foreign interests ineligible for Federal price support, 7008 [9AP]

S. 2284, milk production termination program, 7193 [10AP]

S. 2310, prohibit agricultural assistance under price support and related programs to certain foreigners, 7498 [15AP]

S. 2313, credit against Federal income tax for B-stock losses due to failure of a production credit association, 7763 [16AP]

S. 2315, Agricultural Credit Act, 7765-7767 [16AP]

S. 2332, Farm Credit Assistance Act, 7980-7985 [17AP]

S. 2343, authorize provision of foreign assistance for agricultural activities in Nicaragua, 8120 [21AP]

S. 2346, Pesticide Reform Act, 8126-8140 [21AP]

S. 2365, rotation of grain in producer reserve program, 8685 [24AP]

S. 2407, Animal Drug Amendments and Patent Term Restoration Act, 9652-9656 [6MY]

S. 2478, Meat Import Act amendment, 11715 [21MY]

S. 2511, extend tariff suspension applicable to certain imported cantaloups, 12481 [4JN]

S. 2548, amend Farmland Protection Policy Act to propose Federal assistance and State financing to save farm land, 13536 [12JN]

S. 2549, permit exemptions from capital gains treatment in sale of farmland developmental rights, 13537 [12JN]

S. 2550, extend financial protection to dairy and egg farmers, 13537 [12JN]

S. 2553, Farmers Home Administration loans for training in advanced marketing techniques, 13669 [13JN]

S. 2617, establish an Office of Emergency Aid for Farm Families, 15984 [26JN]

S. 2622, Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Improvement Act, 15881 [26JN]

S. 2628, improve quality of exported grain, 17542 [24JY]

S. 2676, San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, 17243-17245 [22JY]

S. 2680, allow deduction for assistance extended to farmers in the Southeast, 17379 [23JY]

S. 2684, equity in CCC grain storage rates, 17573 [24JY]

S. 2717, Temporary Emergency Grain Storage Act, 19251 [5AU]

S. 2721, modify cross compliance requirements for producers of extra long staple type cotton, 21600 [14AU]

S. 2725, Farm Mortgage Marketing Restoration Act, 19855 [7AU]

S. 2737, eliminate cattle as a subject for trading on commodity futures market, 20558 [11AU]

S. 2767, Farm Policy Reform Act, 21923-21925 [15AU]

S. 2770, Farm Credit System Borrower Interest Rate Relief Act, 21932 [15AU], 28551 [3OC]

S. 2836, price support loan rate for soybeans, 23915 [18SE]

S. 2847, Grain Marketing Act, 25099 [22SE]

S. 2851, amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act, 25679 [23SE]

S. 2872, Pesticide Price Competition Act, 25846 [24SE]

S. 2899, Farm Credit System Interest Reduction Act, 27687 [1OC]

S. 2935, Antibiotic Safety Act, 32594 [16OC]

S. Con. Res. 113, Food Security Improvements Act enrollment corrections, 4133, 4176 [10MR]

S. Con. Res. 114, Food Security Improvements Act enrollment corrections, 4289, 4323 [11MR]

S. Con. Res. 122, loan restructuring of farm debt, 6560 [27MR]

S. Con. Res. 124, reverse milk production termination program's impact on red meat market, 7032 [9AP]

S. Con. Res. 129, restrictions imposed on U.S. exports by EEC, 7916, 7994 [17AP]

S. Con. Res. 138, Farm Credit System loan restructuring, 10625 [14MY]

S. Con. Res. 148, encourage use of surplus U.S. beef for relief of victims of Soviet atomic power plant accident, 13276 [11JN], 13718 [13JN]

S. Res. 99, prohibit financial assistance to fertilizer companies owned by foreign countries, 17214 [22JY]

S. Res. 368, Cooperative Extension Service Programs funding, 5175 [18MR]

S. Res. 370, U.S. consumption of meat, 5684 [20MR]

S. Res. 376, Federal-State program to detect and eradicate citrus canker, 6564 [27MR]

S. Res. 377, Federal-State program to detect and eradicate citrus canker, 6564 [27MR]

S. Res. 379, milk production termination program, 7200 [10AP]

S. Res. 394, authorize shipment of dried milk to Poland, 9419 [5MY]

S. Res. 397, World Bank loan to Argentina to dismantle certain taxes applied to agricultural exports, 9910 [7MY]

S. Res. 448, promote export of commodities, 17128 [21JY]

S. Res. 451, commend assistance extended to farmers in the Southeast, 17379, 17394 [23JY]

S. Res. 453, maintain formula price support loan rate for soybeans, 17761 [25JY]

S.J. Res. 296, World Food Day, 5970 [21MR], 8335 [22AP]

S.J. Res. 310, National Agricultural Export Week, 8278 [22AP], 13251 [11JN]

Terminate irrigation subsidies for surplus crops, 22740 [10SE]

Tributes

Merle Hedland, 29598 [8OC]