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[CITE: 7USC1357]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
                        Part B--Marketing Quotas
 
                  subpart vi--marketing quotas--peanuts
 
Sec. 1357. Legislative findings

    The production, marketing, and processing of peanuts and peanut 
products employs a large number of persons and is of national interest. 
The movement of peanuts from producer to consumer is preponderantly in 
interstate and foreign commerce, and, owing to causes beyond their 
control, the farmers producing such commodity and the persons engaged in 
the marketing and processing thereof are unable to regulate effectively 
the orderly marketing of the commodity. As the quantity of peanuts 
marketed in the channels of interstate and foreign commerce increases 
above the quantity of peanuts needed for cleaning and shelling, the 
prices at which all peanuts are marketed are depressed to low levels. 
These low prices tend to cause the quantity of peanuts available for 
marketing in later years to be less than normal, which in turn tends to 
cause relatively high prices. This fluctuation of prices and marketings 
of peanuts creates an unstable and chaotic condition in the marketing of 
peanuts for cleaning and shelling and for crushing for oil in the 
channels of interstate and foreign commerce. Since these unstable and 
chaotic conditions have existed for a period of years and are likely, 
without proper regulation, to continue to exist, it is imperative that 
the marketing of peanuts for cleaning and shelling and for crushing for 
oil in interstate and foreign commerce be regulated in order to protect 
producers, handlers, processors, and consumers.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 357, as added Apr. 3, 1941, ch. 
39, Sec. 1, 55 Stat. 88.)


            Marketing Quotas and Acreage Allotments for 1947

    Joint Res. July 24, 1946, ch. 617, 60 Stat. 663, suspended marketing 
quotas and acreage allotments for 1947 in view of the critical shortage 
of high protein foods and feeds, and fats and oil.
