DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE see also Secretary of Agriculture

Articles and editorials

Henry Wallace Tops Agriculture Honor Roll Unveiled at USDA Center, 10883 [6JN]

Sequestration Ax Is Already Beginning to Fall on Personnel and Services, 27112 [3NO]

Woodcutters, Forest Service Join Forces To Create Jobs, 1876 [7FE]

Bills and resolutions

Agricultural Program Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Service Center Improvement Act: enact (see S. 773)

Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Act: enact (see S. 1695)

Animal Welfare Protection Act: enact (see H.R. 425)

Animals: eradicate disease of scrapie in sheep and goats (see S. 723)

Center for Noxious Weed Management and Data Collection: establish (see S. 1159)

Clay Center, NE: Virginia D. Smith Animal Health Research Laboratory (see H.R. 3048)

Comprehensive Food Safety Inspection Act: enact (see H.R. 3071)

Disaster Assistance Extension Act: enact (see S. 1282, 1283)

Endangered species: improve protection in the National Forest System, National Park System, and National Wildlife Refuge System (see H.R. 89)

Farmers Home Administration: subject certain borrowers to shared appreciation arrangements (see S. 1487)

Feed grains: marketing loan program (see H.R. 2016)

Forest Service: administrative appeals of decisions (see H.R. 2340)

Groundwater: coordination of policy (see H.R. 3574)

Hazardous substances: study the classification of anhydrous ammonia as a poisonous gas (see S. 256)

Health: national nutrition plan (see H.R. 1608)

Historic sites: study in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (see H.R. 3804)

Irradiated food: prohibit implementation of certain regulations (see S. 1037)

Loans: making or enforcing rules (see H.R. 3680)

Mexico: investigation of actions prohibiting free trade of livestock with the U.S. (see S. Res. 168)

Natural resources: study forest resources and open space in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (see H.R. 3803)

Office of Agricultural Weather and Climatology: establish (see H.R. 1880)

Office of Integrated Pest Management: establish (see H.R. 3514)

Paperwork for producers: reduction (see H.R. 802)

Payment-in-kind certificates: redemption (see H.R. 1246)

Programs: transfer administration (see H.R. 831)

Real property: sale of farmland at less than fair market value (see S. 1489)

Recreation areas: study in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (see H.R. 3804)

Rural areas: facility for storage and retrieval of data to development programs (see S. 1595)

Rural Capital Access Program: establish within Dept. of Agriculture to encourage lending institutions to provide loans to certain businesses (see S. 973)

Rural Development Administration: transfer certain programs (see H.R. 2408)

Rural development program: maintain program information (see H.R. 2412)

Soybeans: marketing loan program (see H.R. 2016)

Sugar: trade balance among sources (see H.R. 1055)

Sunflowers: marketing loan program (see H.R. 2016)

Sustainable agricultural system: develop (see H.R. 3552)

Tobacco: study on commodities and products that may be produced in conjunction (see S. 422)

Wheat: marketing loan program (see H.R. 2016)

Wildlife: multiyear set-asides to establish habitats and feeding areas (see H.R. 3132)

Explanations

Rural Capital Access Program (S. 973), 8965 [11MY]

Guidelines

Primary loan servicing options for farmers, 31273 [21NO]

History

Clayton Yeutter—Employment History, 1917 [8FE]

Letters

Forest road funding: Forest Service, 23902 [7OC]

Forest Service budget: F. Dale Robertson, 16296 [26JY]

GATT investigation of Mexican actions prohibiting free trade of livestock with the U.S.: Senators Gramm and Domenici, 19016 [4AU]

Nomination of James E. Cason to be Assistant Sec. of Agriculture: several agricultural associations, 29648 [17NO]

Primary loan servicing options for farmers: Neal S. Johnson, 31273 [21NO]

Scrapie eradication program: Senator Harkin (sundry), 5841 [7AP]

Sugar Supply Stabilization Act: Ewen M. Wilson, 3963 [9MR]

Lists

Clayton Yeutter—honorary society memberships, degrees, and awards, 1918 [8FE]

Questionnaires

Options in denial of requests for primary agriculture loan service programs, 31273 [21NO]

Remarks in House

Animal Welfare Protection Act: enact (H.R. 425), 141 [3JA]

Budget: implications, 5062-5063 [21MR]

Clay Center, NE: Virginia D. Smith Animal Health Research Laboratory (H.R. 3048), 16775 [28JY]

Economic investment zones: develop (H.R. 3166), 19490 [4AU]

Endangered species: experimentation on eagles, 24763 [17OC]

Forest Service: administrative appeals of decisions (H.R. 2340), 9036 [11MY]

———budget, 3081 [1MR]

Milk and milk products: applicability of marketing order (H.R. 1139), 3045 [28FE]

National Agriculture Day: observance, 5002, 5004 [20MR]

Paperwork for producers: reduction (H.R. 802), 1376, 1377 [2FE], 3033 [28FE]

Sugar program, 13651 [27JN]

Sustainable agricultural system: develop (H.R. 3552), 26515 [31OC]

Remarks in Senate

Agricultural Program Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Service Center Improvement Act: enact (S. 773), 6557 [13AP]

Animals: eradicate disease of scrapie in sheep and goats (S. 723), 5841 [7AP]

Cason, James E.: nomination to be Assistant Sec. of Agriculture, 27887 [8NO], 29370, 29373-29376 [16NO], 29644-29649, 29660 [17NO], 31663, 31678 [21NO], 31725 [11DE]

Center for Noxious Weed Management and Data Collection: establish (S. 1159), 11428 [9JN]

Disaster Assistance Extension Act: enact (S. 1282), 14148 [11JY]

———enact (S. 1283), 14149, 14156-14159 [11JY]

Farm income: statistics, 31322 [21NO]

Forest Service: budget, 16288-16298 [26JY]

Forests and forestry: compensation to property damaged by fires permitted to burn out of control (S. 1935), 30541, 30542 [20NO]

Hazardous substances: study the classification of anhydrous ammonia as a poisonous gas (S. 256), 1007, 1008 [25JA]

Irradiated foods: prohibit implementation of certain regulations (S. 1037), 9831 [18MY]

Mexico: investigation of actions prohibiting free trade of livestock with the U.S. (S. Res. 168), 19016 [4AU]

Nominations, 31325 [21NO]

Rural areas: facility for storage and retrieval of data relative to Federal rural development programs (S. 1595), 20059 [12SE]

Rural Capital Access Program: establish within Dept. of Agriculture to encourage lending institutions to provide loans to certain businesses (S. 973), 8962 [11MY]

Southern Forest Productivity Priority Research Program: funding, 16301 [26JY]

Tobacco: study on commodities and products that may be produced in conjunction (S. 422), 2447, 2448 [22FE]

Utah: exchange of lands between the Forest Service and the Salt Lake City Corp. (S. 319), 1300 [31JA]

Yeutter, Clayton: nomination as Sec. of Agriculture, 1750 [7FE], 1916-1925 [8FE]

Reports filed

Anniversary of State Cooperative Extension Service: Committee on Agriculture (H.J. Res. 124) (H. Rept. 101-4), 4110 [14MR]

Nomination of Adis M. Vila: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 30531 [20NO]

Nominations: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 9238 [16MY], 23579 [5OC], 25649 [24OC]

Statements

Summer Feeding Program, 25777 [24OC]

Withdrawing Nomination of James E. Cason: Clayton Yeutter, Sec. of Agriculture, 31663 [21NO]

Testimonies

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: U.S. Agricultural Programs, D205 [19AP]

Texts of

S. 172, extension of Great Plains conservation program, 824 [25JA]

S. 773, Agricultural Program Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Service Center Improvement Act, 6557 [13AP]

S. 973, Rural Capital Access Program, 8963 [11MY]

S. 1159, Center for Noxious Weed Management and Data Collection, 11429 [9JN]

S. 1246, encourage the production of oats, 13144 [22JN]

S. 1283, Disaster Assistance Extension Act, 14150-14155 [11JY]

S. Res. 168, investigation of actions prohibiting free trade of livestock with the U.S., 19016 [4AU]