The
United States
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Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-113, also known as the
1977 U.S. Farm Bill) was an
omnibus
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farm bill
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. The S. 275
legislation
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was passed by the
95th U.S. Congressional session and signed into law by the
39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter on September 29, 1977.
It increased price and income supports and established a farmer-owned reserve for grain. It also established a new two-tiered pricing program for peanuts. Under the
peanut program, producers were given an acreage allotment on which a
poundage quota A poundage quota, also called a marketing quota, is a quantitative limit on the amount of a commodity that can be marketed under the provisions of a permanent law. Once a common feature of price support programs, this supply control mechanism ended ...
was set. Growers could produce in excess of their quota, within their
acreage allotment A farm's acreage allotment, under provisions of permanent commodity price support law, is its share, based on its previous production, of the national acreage needed to produce sufficient supplies of a particular crop. Under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. ...
, but would receive the higher of the
two price-support levels only for the quota amount.
Peanut
The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible Seed, seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, important to both small ...
s in excess of the quota are referred to as "additionals", or
additional peanuts
In United States agricultural policy, additional peanuts (or additionals) refers to peanuts sold from a farm in any marketing year in excess of the amount of quota peanuts (see peanut poundage quota) sold from that farm. Additional peanuts must be ...
.
Title XIII was designated the
Food Stamp Act of 1977
In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people. It is a federal aid program, ad ...
and permanently amended the
Food Stamp Act of 1964
The Food Stamp Act (P.L. 88-525) provided permanent legislative authority to the Food Stamp Program, which had been administratively implemented on a pilot basis in 1962. On August 31, 1964 it was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. ...
by eliminating the purchase requirement and simplifying eligibility requirements.
Title XIV was designated the
and made
USDA
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of com ...
the leading federal agency for agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs. It also consolidated the funding for these programs.
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1977 in the United States
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