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[CITE: 7USC2301]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER 56--UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES AFFECTING PRODUCERS OF AGRICULTURAL 
                                PRODUCTS
 
Sec. 2301. Congressional findings and declaration of policy

    Agricultural products are produced in the United States by many 
individual farmers and ranchers scattered throughout the various States 
of the Nation. Such products in fresh or processed form move in large 
part in the channels of interstate and foreign commerce, and such 
products which do not move in these channels directly burden or affect 
interstate commerce. The efficient production and marketing of 
agricultural products by farmers and ranchers is of vital concern to 
their welfare and to the general economy of the Nation. Because 
agricultural products are produced by numerous individual farmers, the 
marketing and bargaining position of individual farmers will be 
adversely affected unless they are free to join together voluntarily in 
cooperative organizations as authorized by law. Interference with this 
right is contrary to the public interest and adversely affects the free 
and orderly flow of goods in interstate and foreign commerce.
    It is, therefore, declared to be the policy of Congress and the 
purpose of this chapter to establish standards of fair practices 
required of handlers in their dealings in agricultural products.

(Pub. L. 90-288, Sec. 2, Apr. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 93.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 90-288 provided that: ``This Act [enacting this 
chapter] shall be known as the `Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 
1967'.''
