Dairy and the US Congress

Dairy and the US Congress

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This collection documents legislative issues relating to dairy such as milk pricing, subsidies, and oleomargarine. Vermont's congressional delegation has a long and active history in matters relating to Vermont's dairy farmers and the dairy...
Show moreThis collection documents legislative issues relating to dairy such as milk pricing, subsidies, and oleomargarine. Vermont's congressional delegation has a long and active history in matters relating to Vermont's dairy farmers and the dairy industry. George Aiken, Elbert Brigham, James Jeffords, and Patrick Leahy all served on Agriculture committees and their collections document many of the agricultural issues that faced Congress in the 20th Century.
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Title: Dairy - Miscellaneous, 1964
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1964
Topics include cost of dairy production; farm employment; Federal Milk Marketing Administration and producer-handler regulations; Class I base plans; cost of government programs relating to the dairy industry; development of beef as a by-product of dairying; 1964 Public Health Service Pasteurized... more
Title: Dairy -- Proxmire Bill-McWilliams Talk, 1964
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1964
Title: Dairy - "Well Pits", 1964
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1964
Topics include 10th anniversary of milk program “to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children in nonprofit schools of high school age and under”; text of Aiken editorial in the Rutland Daily Herald, “Changing Agriculture”; Vermont Department of Agriculture Director Carr’s comments to the... more
Title: Dairy - Consolidation of New England Milk Marketing Orders (library), 1964
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1964
Topics include proposal to merge the five milk marketing order areas in New England; creation in Vermont by Governor Phil Hoff of a Rural Stabilization and Adjustment Committee; letter from Governor Hoff to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, urging him to consolidate the New England milk... more
Title: Dairy -- Miscellaneous, 1963
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1963
Topics include packaged sterilized cream and government price-support and food-for-peace programs; dairy imports and exports; United States Department of Labor investigation into Dairy Herd Improvement Association employment practices in Vermont.
Title: Dairy – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1963
Topics include Class I milk marketing order proposals by Senator Proxmire (WI) and Senator McCarthy (MN), both of which were opposed by Senator Aiken; milk sanitation legislation; remarks of Rep. Samuel Stratton (NY) in the House of Representatives on federal dairy legislation; milk prices; milk... more
Title: Dairy, USDA Proposed Amendment to Class I Prices, 1963
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1963
Topics include hearing Federal Milk Order pricing, particularly proposed amendments to Class I milk pricing; letter from Elmer Towne, Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, supporting continuation of Class I milk pricing.
Title: Dairy – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1963
Topics include Class I milk marketing order proposals by Senator Proxmire (WI) and Senator McCarthy (MN), both of which were opposed by Senator Aiken; proposed changes to the Agricultural Adjustment Act by the USDA; milk prices; milk surpluses.
Title: Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Topics include USDA study on probable effects on prices and consumption of quota plans to restrict farm marketings of milk and cream; remarks of President Kennedy to the National Conference on Milk and Nutrition; milk and grain surplus figures; press release from Senator Proxmire (WI) on milk price... more
Title: Dairy: H.R.12138 Lehigh Valley Case; Amendments to NY NJ Milk order; Jesse Stalker Case,1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Topics include Lehigh Valley Coop. v. United States, Supreme Court case; H.R. 12138, a bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1937 to permit certain payments under milk marketing orders; amendments to New York-New Jersey milk order; Jessee Stalker case, a New York producer-handler
Title: Dairy Bill Correspondence, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Topics include correspondence with constituents about President Kennedy's dairy bill; milk production controls and marketing quotas; dairy price supports; milk marketing and promotion; letter from Elmer Town, Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, concerning producer milk quotas; copy of a... more
Title: Dairy Bill Hearing, February 27, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Topics include copy of remarks of President Kennedy to the National Conference on Milk and Nutrition underlined by Charles Weaver; Aiken's notes on Senate Agriculture Committee hearing; testimony of Clement Baker, Shelburne dairy farmer; testimony of Harry Varney, Jr., Charlotte dairy farmer;... more
Title: Dairy: Northeast Milk Marketing Order, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman's decision on proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; response to decision from the Northeastern Association of State Departments of Agriculture; milk prices. more
Title: Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, Whiting Company, Correspondence, Hearings, 1961
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1961
Topics include background of the Northeast Dairy Bloc; milk quotas; feed supplies; milk prices; address by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman at a White House Regional Conference in Madison, WI; H.R. 50, National Milk Sanitation Act; request of six Vermont cooperatives for a partial... more
Title: Dairy -- H.R. 12030 Correspondence, 1960
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1960
Topics include statement of the National Milk Producers Federation before the House Ways and Means Committee at a cooperative tax hearing; text of House bill 12030 for an appropriation for the special milk program for children; quotas on imported cheeses; analysis of quota plans to restrict farm... more
Title: Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, 1960
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1960
Topics include S. 998, Milk Sanitation Bill proposed by Senators Hubert Humphrey and William Proxmire; response from W.J. Emery and Elmer Towne, from the Vermont Department of Agriculture, comparing Vermont and Federal milk codes; status report of the Public Health Service's expanded milk... more
Title: Dairy -- 2 cent per cwt. Deduction in Boston Milk Orders for Non-Members, 1960
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1960
Topics include proposed amendment to the Boston Milk Order for a two cent per hundred-weight tax on all producers in the Boston pool who are not members of a qualified co-operative association; proposed tax to cover the cost of market information, verification of weights, sampling, and testing of... more
Title: Dairy: Correspondence and Dairymen's League vs. Teamsters, 1959
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1959
Topics include New England Milkshed Price Committee; letter from Elmer Towne, Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, on a variety of dairy issues in Vermont; continuation of dairy support prices; National Conference on Interstate Shipments of Milk and a proposed national milk standards act; USDA... more
Title: Dairy price supports - Keith Wallace Letter, 1958
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1958
Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports; Aiken's response to Benson's proposal; Aiken's response to President Eisenhower's agricultural message to the Congress; letter from Aiken to Keith Wallace, President of the... more
Title: Dairy: Abernethy "Self-Help" bill (Library), 1958
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1958
Topics include H.R. 10043 by Representative Thomas Abernethy (MS), which is the same as a bill in the Senate by Senators Hubert Humphrey (MN) and Alexander Wiley (WI); bill would establish a "Dairy Stabilization Board" which would be empowered to fix prices, control production, establish... more

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