DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE related term(s) Secretary of Agriculture

Addresses

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

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

Agreements

Dairy herd termination program, 10640 [14MY]

Amendments

Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5177), 17318 [22JY], 17670, 17678, 17682 [24JY]

Appropriations: making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), 3196 [27FE], 3711 [5MR], 4623 [13MR], 5133, 5134, 5175 [18MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: convey lands (S. 565), 29915 [9OC], 30178 [10OC]

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]

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]

Public lands: convey (S. 565), 29915, 29935 [9OC], 30178 [10OC]

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

Analyses

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

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

Federal Lands Administration Act (S. 2289), 7328-7332 [11AP]

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

Forest Service and Road Construction (excerpt), 22428-22429 [9SE]

Improve Administration of Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (S. 2279), 7019 [9AP]

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

Appointments

Conferees: H.J. Res. 534, making urgent supplemental appropriations, 3714 [5MR], 4216 [11MR], 5225, 5263 [18MR]

Articles and editorials

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

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

Amber Waves of Strain, 16535 [16JY]

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

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

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

Extension Service Faces Uncertain Future, 2081 [7FE]

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

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]

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

Farming the Tax Code, 13174 [10JN]

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

FmHA To Pressure Delinquent Farmers, 256 [22JA]

Forest Is More than Timber (excerpt), 22426 [9SE]

Forest Service and Road Construction (excerpt), 22426 [9SE]

Forest Service's Sales of Timber Below Cost Stir Increasing Debate, 10435 [13MY]

Freeloading in the Federal Forests, 22425 [9SE]

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]

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

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

Knight of the Highway, 21135 [12AU]

Let People Know What They're Eating, 10424 [13MY]

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

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

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

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]

New U.S. Law Hurts Foreign Farmers, Speeds Policy Changes as Prices Decline, 21781 [15AU]

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

Operation of Railroad-Owned Cars (excerpt), 1199 [30JA]

Plugging Farm Subsidies Into Perspective, 16517 [15JY]

Politics vs. Principles, 20942 [12AU]

Put Off Referendum, 294 [22JA]

Risk Seen in Saturated Fat Used In Fast Foods, 10422 [13MY]

Roads and Green Mansions, 22426 [9SE]

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

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

Staunch Agricultural Budget Bleeding, 21270 [13AU]

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

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]

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

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

What's the Beef?, 10424 [13MY]

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

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

Bills and resolutions

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

Animal Welfare Act: enhance Sec. of Agriculture's ability to enforce (see H.R. 5678)

Appropriations: authorize (see H.J. Res. 534)

———consideration of conference report on H.J. Res. 534, supplemental (see H. Res. 398)

———making (see H.J. Res. 515)

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

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

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

Commodity control: modify definition of nonprogram crop (see S. 2039)

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 H. Res. 413)

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

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

Farmers Home Administration: promote conservation practices on farm lands (see H.R. 5669)

———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)

Fast food restaurants: labeling requirements for packaged foods (see S. 2446)

Feed grains: early and direct entry into producer reserve program (see H.R. 5387)

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

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

Forest Service: mechanism for arbitration or negotiation of disputes involving appraisals of lands to be exchanged (see S. 2902)

Housing: prevent displacement of low-income and elderly residents in rural subsidized projects due to prepayment of loans by Sec. of Agriculture (see H.R. 5463)

———restrict prepayment of certain rural rental loans (see H.R. 5640)

Irradiated food: prohibit implementation of certain regulations (see H.R. 4762)

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

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

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

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

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

Public lands: interchange (see S. 2289)

———mechanism for arbitration or negotiation of disputes involving appraisals of lands to be exchanged (see S. 2902)

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

Rural areas: restrict prepayment of certain housing rental loans (see H.R. 5640)

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

Wheat: determination of deficiency payments (see S. 2193)

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

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

Biographies

Educational Experience: Kathleen Lawrence (excerpt), 33479 [17OC]

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]

Essays

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

Explanations

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

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, 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, 252 [22JA]

Letters

AFDC and food stamp plan disincentives to employment: Grand Forks, SD, Mayor's Committee on Human Needs, 11086 [15MY]

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

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

———Senator Sasser, 27585 [1OC]

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

Chadron State Park land conveyance: Richard E. Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture, 33356 [17OC]

Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area: George S. Dunlop, 29499 [8OC]

Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area Act: F. Dale Robertson and William P. Mott, Jr., 1895 [6FE]

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

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

Dairy farmers: Senator Kasten, 1720 [5FE]

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

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

Dept. of Agriculture workforce employment of minorities and handicapped: sundry Representatives, 16394 [14JY]

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

Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act, 5989 [21MR]

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

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

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]

Forest Service and road construction: League of Conservation Voters (excerpt), 22426 [9SE]

———National Wildlife Federation (excerpt), 22426 [9SE]

———several environment organizations (excerpt), 22426 [9SE]

———Sierra Club (excerpt), 22426 [9SE]

Forest Service lands: John S. Herrington, Sec. of Energy, 28347 [3OC]

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

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

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

Futures Trading Act: CBO, 31502 [15OC]

———Richard E. Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture (excerpts), 31506 [15OC]

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

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

Interchange of lands between executive departments: Donald P. Hodel, Sec. of the Interior, 7332 [11AP]

———John R. Block, 7332 [11AP]

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

Planting of nonprogram crops: Daniel G. Amstutz, 3706 [5MR]

———Dept. of Agriculture, 3706 [5MR]

———Senator Riegle, et al., 3705 [5MR]

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

———Frank Naylor, 3536 [4MR]

Reduction in Forest Service funds for road construction: National Taxpayers Union, 23516 [16SE]

———Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, and the Wilderness Society, 23504 [16SE]

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

Water conveyance systems: Douglas W. MacCleery, 29919 [9OC]

Letters of transmittal

Food stamp and commodity distribution amendments: Richard E. Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture, 14436 [18JN]

Lists

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

Memorandums

Milwaukee Railroad Right-of-Way: Joseph D. Cummings, 14810 [20JN]

Memorials of legislature

Alabama, 10607 [14MY]

California, 11312 [20MY], 11948 [22MY], 15772 [26JN], 16370 [14JY]

Hawaii, 12129 [3JN], 12478 [4JN]

Montana, 9648 [6MY]

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

Messages

Executive Impoundment of Appropriated Funds: President Reagan, 4471 [12MR], 26534 [26SE]

Papers

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

Poems

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

Polls of opinion

Mandatory limits on wheat production, 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]

Remarks in House

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

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

Agricultural Cooperative Extension Services: budget, 3021 [27FE]

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

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

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

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

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

———cargo preference requirements, 4198 [11MR]

———commodities price support program, 3072 [27FE]

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

———crisis, 1001 [29JA]

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

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

———economic crisis, 3025 [27FE], 3755 [5MR], 3807 [6MR]

———emergency farm credit assistance, 3021, 3026 [27FE]

———farm subsidy programs, 14977 [23JN]

———honey price support program, 10950 [15MY]

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

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

———modify basis for determination of wheat and feed grain deficiency payments (H.R. 4456), 5585 [19MR]

———prevent Federal irrigation subsidies for surplus crops, 27430 [30SE]

———provide for emergency credit, 1782 [5FE]

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

———Southeastern drought emergency relief (H.R. 5288), 21634 [14AU]

———terminate irrigation subsidies for surplus crops, 22739 [10SE]

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

———making appropriations (H.R. 5177), waiving certain points of order against consideration (H. Res. 504), 17600 [24JY]

Animal Welfare Act: enforcement, 6833 [9AP]

Appropriations: making, 15242 [24JN]

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

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), 2891-2896 [26FE]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), appointment of conferees, 4216 [11MR], 5225, 5263 [18MR]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), conference report, 4621-4628 [13MR], 5771-5773 [20MR]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), conference report—point of order, 4774 [13MR]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), filing conference report, 5453 [19MR]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), permission to file conference report, 4216 [11MR]

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]

Bunch, Walter: tribute, 17596 [24JY]

California: flood disaster relief, 2671 [25FE], 3232 [27FE]

———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]

Caruthers, Greg: tribute, 22495 [9SE]

Cattle markets: futures trading, 16244 [26JN]

CFTC: reauthorization, 16244 [26JN]

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

Commodities: crop loan rates, 4611 [12MR]

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

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

———funding (H. Res. 413), 7094 [10AP]

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

Crop yields: guidelines, 1319 [30JA]

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]

———product sales record, 16284 [26JN]

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

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

Dept. of Agriculture: convey lands (S. 565), 27351 [30SE], 30178 [10OC]

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

Economic conditions: loan repayment schedules, 219 [22JA]

Elderly Feeding Program: 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]

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

Export Enhancement Program: 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], 28775 [8OC], 29401 [7OC]

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

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]

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

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

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. 5440), 23851 [17SE]

———amend (H.R. 5536), 28713, 28738 [6OC], 28740 [8OC]-28741 [6OC]

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

Feed grains: program requirements (S. 2096), 1803 [5FE]

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

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]

Food stamps: count money earned from selling blood as earned income for eligibility purposes, 9007 [29AP]

Foreign trade: export problems for farm products, 22164 [15AU]

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

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

———U.S. deficit, 18037 [29JY]

4-H Clubs: budget, 3021 [27FE]

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

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

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

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

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

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

June Dairy Month: observance, 16400 [14JY]

Lyng, Richard E.: nomination as Sec. of Agriculture, 659 [29JA]

Manufacturing Housing Institute: anniversary, 33645 [17OC]

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

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

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

———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]

Minorities and handicapped: workforce employment, 16394 [14JY]

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

———observance, 14216, 14217 [17JN]

National Agriculture Day: observance, 5776, 5818 [20MR], 5851, 5852, 5860, 5872 [20MR]

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

National Forest Timber Receipts Clarification Act: enact (H.R. 5200), 17004 [17JY]

National Raisin Week: observance, 10555 [13MY]

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

Nichols, Charles: tribute, 22495 [9SE]

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

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

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

Public lands: convey (S. 565), 27351 [30SE], 30178 [10OC]

Rasmussen, Wayne D.: tribute, 15616 [25JN]

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

Riverside, CA: new Salinity Research Laboratory, 17328 [22JY]

Rural Rental Housing Displacement Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 5463), 22182 [15AU]

Rural Rental Housing Preservation Act: enact, 28678 [3OC]

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

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 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]

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

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]

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

Tongass Timber Reform Act: enact (H.R. 5291), 18238 [30JY]

Wheat: 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]

Remarks in Senate

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

———assistance to farmers and ranchers affected by drought, 18508-18527 [31JY], 18691, 18703, 18707, 18711-18714 [1AU], 20938 [12AU], 21328-21331 [13AU], 21781 [15AU], 27570-27594 [1OC]

———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]

———dairy management programs, 8601 [24AP]

———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]

———divert certain Conrail funds to farm programs, 12901 [6JN]

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

———farm programs, 6200 [26MR]

———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]

———Government policies, 33464 [17OC]

———grain sale to Soviet Union, 20940 [12AU]

———grain storage, 16535 [16JY], 19467 [6AU], 19753 [7AU], 20938 [12AU]

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

———impact of Tax Reform Act, 4077-4079 [7MR]

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

———improve quality of exported grain (S. 2682), 17541 [24JY]

———improve quality of grain provided to foreign buyers, 28914-28916, 28918 [6OC]

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

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

———marketing loan policy, 21781 [15AU]

———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]

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

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

———reverse milk production termination program's impact on red meat market (S. Con. Res. 124), 7033 [9AP]

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

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

———sale and distribution of surplus commodities, 13669 [13JN]

———sale of U.S. barley to Romania, 26185 [25SE]

———Southeastern drought emergency relief (H.R. 5288), 19615 [6AU]

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

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

Aiken, SC: transfer title, control, and custody of certain lands, 28347 [3OC]

Alaska: exempt agricultural production on permafrost from wetlands restrictions, 12759 [5JN]

Appropriations: making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), 3162 [27FE], 3295 [28FE], 3688, 3711 [5MR], 4385 [12MR], 4710 [13MR]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), appointment of conferees, 3714 [5MR]

———making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), conference report, 4765-4781 [13MR], 5132-5134, 5155 [18MR], 5403-5404 [19MR]

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: impact on agricultural programs, 3735 [5MR]

Brantley County, GA: transfer certain land, 12867 [6JN]

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

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

CCC: funding, 3295 [28FE]

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

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

Community Economic Development Act: amend, 28345 [3OC]

Cooperative Extension Service: funding, 4174 [10MR]

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

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

Dept. of Agriculture: assistance to farmers and ranchers affected by drought, 18508-18527 [31JY]

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

———convey lands (S. 565), 20405 [9AU], 29915 [9OC]

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

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

Dept. of Energy: land transfer (S. 1577), 29115 [6OC]

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

Edwards Investments Co.: acquisition of Milwaukee Railroad right-of-way between Idaho and Montana, 14809 [20JN]

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 Assistance Act: enact (S. 2332), 7979 [17AP], 8265, 8275 [22AP], 8532 [23AP]

Farmers: equitable farm program payment yields (S. 2042), 1582 [4FE]

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

Farmers Home Administration: debt collection procedures, 23094 [12SE]

———foreclosure policies, 252 [22JA], 2600 [24FE]

———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]

Fast Food Ingredient Information Act: enact (S. 2446), 10420 [13MY]

Federal Crop Insurance Act: amend (S. 2851), 25679 [23SE]

Food for Peace Program: ensure funds shall be expended for intended purposes, 24899 [19SE]

Food Security Act: amend (S. 2036), 1216-1218 [30JA], 1703, 1744 [5FE], 2071 [7FE]

———maintain formula price support loan rate for soybeans (S. Res. 453), 17761 [25JY]

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 trade: agricultural market development programs, 12798 [5JN]

———Export Enhancement Program, 17217-17223, 17226 [22JY], 17343 [23JY], 17873 [29JY]

Forest Service: Cherokee National Forest, TN, timber sales, 10435 [13MY]

———continuation of land and resource management plans, 23520 [16SE]

———Golden Fleece of the Month recipient, 15941 [26JN]

———mechanism for arbitration or negotiation of disputes involving appraisals of lands to be exchanged (S. 2902), 27690 [1OC]

———reduce funds for road construction, 22423-22433, 22439-22444 [9SE], 23503, 23505, 23514-23517 [16SE]

———restrictions on use of funds to develop Resources Planning Act, 23523 [16SE]

FRS: make credit available for agricultural purposes (S. 2116), 3174 [27FE], 4170 [10MR]

Futures Trading Act: enact (S. 2045), 1588 [4FE]

GAO: require study of marketing practices of the Farmers Home Administration, 28917 [6OC]

Golden Fleece of the Month: Forest Service recipient, 15941 [26JN]

———recipient, 22249 [8SE]

Housing: pilot program of loan asset sales (S. 2137), 3546 [4MR], 3733 [5MR]

Insects: funding for blocking of migration of Africanized bees, 27907 [2OC]

Interest Rate Reduction Program: improve, 12893 [6JN]

Landowner Protection Act: enact (S. 2144), 3722-3726 [5MR]

Lawrence, Kathleen: nomination, 33479 [17OC]

Lyng, Richard E.: nomination confirmed, 3877-3880 [6MR]

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]

Milk: price support program (S. 2085), 2545, 2546 [20FE], 3158-3160, 3164 [27FE]

———repeal of increases in class I differentials (S. 2047), 1720 [5FE]

Myers, Peter C.: nomination confirmed, 12274 [3JN]

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, 14833 [20JN]

National Agriculture Day: observance, 5707 [20MR]

National forests: illegal cultivation of marihuana, 26804-26807 [27SE]

National Rural Development Corp.: provide for use of designated funds, 28348 [3OC]

Nebraska: land conveyance, 28918 [6OC]

Nebraska National Forest: convey land, 33353 [17OC]

———convey land (S. 360), 3540 [4MR]

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]

Public lands: convey (S. 565), 20405 [9AU], 29915 [9OC]

———interchange (S. 2289), 7323 [11AP]

———mechanism for arbitration or negotiation of disputes involving appraisals of lands to be exchanged (S. 2902), 27690 [1OC]

———transfer of certain areas in Nevada to Inyo, Toiyabe and Humboldt National Forests (S. 2698), 33342 [17OC]

———transfer of certain areas in Nevada to Inyo, Toiyabe, and Humboldt National Forests (S. 2698), 17918 [29JY]

Riverside, CA: authorize construction of salinity research facility, 28978 [6OC]

Rural areas: correct procedures for establishment of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committees, 1216-1218 [30JA]

———funding for insured water and sewer facility loan programs, 27885 [2OC]

Rural Development Insurance Fund: sale of notes, 24915 [19SE]

Sec. of Agriculture: authority for transfer of grain during extraordinary circumstances, 3701 [5MR]

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

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

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

South Africa: participation in agricultural export credit and promotion programs, 21831-21834 [15AU]

Soybeans: price support program (S. 2836)

Sprague, Merritt W.: tribute, 8608 [24AP]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act: funding, 32505 [16OC]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program: improve administration of and establish food bank projects (S. 2279), 7019 [9AP]

Temporary Emergency Grain Storage Act: enact (S. 2717), 19250 [5AU]

Westby, Niles: tribute, 4350 [11MR]

Wheat: determination of deficiency payments (S. 2193), 4811 [13MR]

———mandatory limits on production, 21904 [15AU]

———referendum on national marketing quota, 15315 [25JN]

———referendum on national marketing quota (H.R. 1614), 5963 [21MR]

Yam Day: observance, 11353 [20MY]

Reports

AFDC and Food Stamp Plan Disincentives to Employment: Grand Forks, SD, Mayor's Committee on Human Needs, 11086 [15MY]

Draft Livestock Industry Comments on the Grazing Fee Review and Evaluation Report From the Secs. of Agriculture and the Interior, 10341-10344 [12MY]

Effects of Legislative Changes in 1981 and 1982 Food Stamp Program (excerpt), 15930 [26JN]

Existing Emergency Feed Programs, 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]

Forest Service and Road Construction: (excerpt), 22427, 22431 [9SE]

———Library of Congress (excerpt), 22430 [9SE]

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

Hunger Teleconference Report—Executive Summary, 8029 [17AP]

Reports by conference committees

Making Urgent Supplemental Appropriations (H.J. Res. 534), 4553 [12MR], 5543 [19MR]

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]

Allocation of Budget Totals: Committee on Agriculture (H. Rept. 99-555), 8596 [24AP]

Authorize Construction of Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA: Committee on Agriculture (H. Rept. 99-966), 28331 [3OC]

Chadron State Park, NE, Land Conveyance: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 360) (S. Rept. 99-235), 1885 [6FE]

Convey Forest Service Land to Flagstaff, AZ: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 567) (S. Rept. 99-353), 18772 [1AU]

Convey Forest Service Lands to Payson, AZ: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 565) (S. Rept. 99-339), 17758 [25JY]

———Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (S. 565) (H. Rept. 99-900), 26427 [26SE]

Emergency Assistance to Farmers and Ranchers Affected by Drought: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 5288) (S. Rept. 99-737), 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 Great Basin National Park, NV: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 2506) (S. Rept. 99-458), 24968 [19SE]

Establishment of Institutes of Rural Technology Development: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (H.R. 4331), 20922 [12AU]

Farm Credit Administration's Role in System's Crisis (H. Rept. 99-561), 8886 [29AP]

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 Rules (H.R. 2482; H. Res. 536) (H. Rept. 99-803), 22143 [15AU]

———Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 5536) (H. Rept. 99-895), 28178 [2OC]

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]

Head Start, Follow Through, Dependent Care, Community Services Grant, and Community Food and Nutrition Programs Appropriations: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 4421) (H. Rept. 99-545), 7890 [17AP]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 4421) (H. Rept. 99-549), 8410 [22AP]

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]

Nomination: Christopher Hicks, 11713 [21MY]

———George S. Dunlop, 12772 [5JN]

———Kathleen W. Lawrence, 16615 [16JY]

———Kenneth A. Gilles, 16615 [16JY]

———Peter C. Myers, 11713 [21MY]

———Richard E. Lyng, 3715 [5MR]

———Robert W. Beuley, 16615 [16JY]

———W. Kirk Miller, 24968 [19SE]

Nonprogram Crop Definition Modification: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 4079) (H. Rept. 99-479), 3388 [3MR]

Permit Access Across Certain Federal Lands in Arkansas: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S. 767) (S. Rept. 99-452), 24968 [19SE]

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]

Release Reversionary Interest of U.S. in Land in Putnam County, FL, and convey Mineral Interests to Florida: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 5492) (H. Rept. 99-992), 31219 [14OC]

Revise Terms of Certain Agricultural Programs: Committee on Rules (H.R. 4306; H. Res. 391) (H. Rept. 99-485), 3852 [6MR]

Sugar Sales Operation: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-889), 26369 [25SE]

Supplemental Appropriations: committee of conference (H.J. Res. 534) (H. Rept. 99-493), 4576 [12MR]

———committee of conference (H.J. Res. 534) (H. Rept. 99-499), 5565 [19MR]

———Committee on Appropriations (H.J. Res. 534), 3542 [4MR]

———Committee on Rules (H.J. Res. 534; H. Res. 398) (H. Rept. 99-492), 4576 [12MR]

Rulings of the Chair

Appropriations: making urgent supplemental (H.J. Res. 534), conference report, 4774 [13MR]

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]

Foreign Market Development, 12799 [5JN]

Interchange of Lands Between Executive Departments, 7333 [11AP]

Maintaining Price Support Loan Rate for Soybeans: Senator Bumpers, 23913 [18SE]

Marketing Loan for Wheat, Feed Grains, and Soybeans (sundry excerpts), 23834 [17SE]

Niles Westby: Clark Westby, 4350 [11MR]

———sundry, 4351 [11MR]

Problems of Noncommercial Farmers, 8685 [24AP]

Secretary Lyng Expands Programs To Aid Drought-Stricken S.E. Farmers, 18703 [1AU]

Support for Fast Food Labeling: American College of Allergists, 10422 [13MY]

———American Heart Association, 10422 [13MY]

———Center for Science in the Public Interest, 10421 [13MY]

Tax Codes for Development of Surplus Crops: Center for Rural Affairs, 4077 [7MR]

Tax Reform Act, 26533 [26SE]

U.S. Trade and the Agricultural Community: Representative Siljander, 10344 [12MY]

Studies

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act—State and Local Food and Drug Programs: FDA (excerpt), 24754 [23SE]

Summaries

Agriculture Price Support Improvements (S. 2795), 22265, 22266 [8SE]

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]

Food Security Improvements Act—major provisions (H.R. 1614), 4240 [11MR]

Grain Quality Improvement Act (H.R. 4714), 9161-9162 [30AP]

Surveys

Survey Shows Worsening Farm Crisis: South Dakota State University, 1782 [5FE]

Tables

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]

Farmers Home Administration debt, 13669 [13JN]

Farmers Home Administration's program delinquencies, 13669 [13JN]

Garrison Diversion Unit irrigation project, 8194, 8196 [21AP]

Nutrition program for the elderly—1985 payments, 21453 [13AU]

Public road and street mileage in the 50 States, 22440 [9SE]

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]

Testimonies

EEC Agriculture Trade Practices: Archer D. Midland, 8709 [24AP]

Farmers Home Administration Foreclosure Policies: Vance L. Clark, 2600 [24FE]

FDA Appropriations for Fast Food Labeling, 10423 [13MY]

Quality of Grain Exported by the U.S.: farmer, 17541 [24JY]

Texts of

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.J. Res. 534, CCC appropriations, 5771 [20MR]

H.J. Res. 534, making urgent supplemental appropriations, 2891 [26FE]

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

H.R. 4455, Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act, 5857 [20MR]

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. 5463, Rural Rental Housing Displacement Prevention Act, 22183 [15AU]

H.R. 5536, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act amendments, 28713-28738 [6OC]

H.R. 5635, Farm Credit Act amendments, 28672 [3OC]

Packers and Stockyards Act amendments, 8563-8564 [23AP]

S. 360, convey land to the Nebraska National Forest, 3540 [4MR]

S. 565, convey certain lands to Payson, AZ, 27351 [30SE]

S. 567, convey lands to Flagstaff, AZ, 29480 [8OC]

S. 1577, transfer of land from the Forest Service to the Dept. of Energy, 29116 [6OC]

S. 2013, delay producer referendum relative to flue-cured tobacco and delay announcement of burley tobacco marketing quotas, 295 [22JA]

S. 2036, Food Security Act amendments, 1219 [30JA]

S. 2042, equitable farm program payment yields for crops, 1582 [4FE]

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. 2137, pilot program of loan asset sales, 3733 [5MR]

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. 2279, improve administration of Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program and establish food bank projects, 7019 [9AP]

S. 2289, Federal Lands Administration Act, 7324-7328 [11AP]

S. 2332, Farm Credit Assistance Act, 7980-7985 [17AP]

S. 2446, Fast Food Ingredient Information Act, 10421 [13MY]

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. 2717, Temporary Emergency Grain Storage Act, 19251 [5AU]

S. 2836, price support loan rate for soybeans, 23915 [18SE]

S. 2851, amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act, 25679 [23SE]

S. 2902, mechanism for arbitration or negotiation of disputes involving appraisals of lands to be exchanged, 27692 [1OC]

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. 124, reverse milk production termination program's impact on red meat market, 7032 [9AP]

S. Res. 368, Cooperative Extension Service Programs funding, 5175 [18MR]

S. Res. 453, maintain formula price support loan rate for soybeans, 17761 [25JY]

S.J. Res. 310, National Agricultural Export Week, 8278 [22AP], 13251 [11JN]

Terminate irrigation subsidies for surplus crops, 22740 [10SE]