The Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 provides authority for
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marketing orders, and also reaffirmed the
marketing agreements provisions of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933.
Under the authority of this permanent
law
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and subsequent
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, marketing orders have been established for
milk
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as well as numerous
fruit
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s,
vegetable
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s, and specialty
crop
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s.
The Agricultural Marketing Agreement of 1937 created the
Raisin Administrative Committee, which was the subject of the 2013 and 2015 Supreme Court case ''
Horne v. Department of Agriculture''.
See also
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Marketing agreements
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Marketing orders and agreements
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Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
:''This is an article about the "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938". For the act by the same name in 1933, see Agricultural Adjustment Act.''
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 () was legislation in the United States that was enacted as an ...
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Agricultural Marketing Service
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture; it maintains programs in five commodity areas: cotton and tobacco; dairy; fruit and vegetable; livestock and seed; and poultry. These programs ...
References
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United States federal agriculture legislation
Agricultural marketing in the United States
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