Maximum and minimum quantities for set-aside; "commodity set-aside" defined

U.S.C. Title 7 - AGRICULTURE 7 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 7 - AGRICULTURE CHAPTER 42 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY SET-ASIDE Sec. 1741 - Maximum and minimum quantities for set-aside; "commodity set-aside" defined From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§1741. Maximum and minimum quantities for set-aside; "commodity set-aside" defined

The Commodity Credit Corporation shall, as rapidly as the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine to be practicable, set aside within its inventories not more than the following maximum quantities and not less than the following minimum quantities of agricultural commodities or products thereof heretofore or hereafter acquired by it from 1954 and prior years' crops and production in connection with its price support operations:

CommodityMaximum quantityMinimum quantity

Wheat (bushels) 500,000,000 400,000,000

Upland cotton (bales) 4,000,000 3,000,000

Cottonseed oil (pounds) 500,000,000 0

Butter (pounds) 200,000,000 0

Nonfat dry milk solids (pounds) 300,000,000 0

Cheese (pounds) 150,000,000 0

Such quantities shall be known as the "commodity set-aside".

(Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title I, §101, 68 Stat. 897.)

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title Act Aug. 28, 1954, enacting sections 397, 1446b and 1446c of this title, this chapter, chapters 43 and 44 of this title, and section 590h–3 of Title 16, Conservation, and amending sections 602, 608c, 608e–1, 1301, 1326–1330, 1332, 1334–1335, 1340, 1344, 1371, 1374, 1421, 1428, 1441, 1446, 1446d of this title and sections 590h and 590o of Title 16, Conservation, is popularly known as the "Agricultural Act of 1954".