The Agricultural Market Transition Act, Agriculture Marketing Assistance, and the Loan Deficiency Program - Collection Finding Aid

The Agricultural Market Transition Act, Agriculture Marketing Assistance, and the Loan Deficiency Program - Collection Finding Aid

The email in this collection discuss: the 1996 Farm Bill, Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA), USDA announcements of prevailing world market price of cotton and rice and the resulting marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payment rates available to producers, agricultural reports on markets and perspectives, remarks by Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman on agricultural assistance programs, proposed USDA Marketing Loan changes, Economic Injury Disaster Loans for drought victims, federal response to 1999 drought and heat wave, FY 2000 Agriculture appropriations conference report to including $5.5 billion to double Freedom to Farm or Agricultural Market Transition Act payments and $1.2 billion in disaster aid, and H.R. 3194, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2000.

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