Dairy and the US Congress
Collection Overview
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, 1963
- Date Created
- 1963
- Description
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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 price supports - correspondence, 1958
- Date Created
- 1958
- Description
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Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports; Aiken's response to Benson's proposal; proposed legislation from Senator Hubert Humphrey (MN).
- Title
- Dairy Price Supports -- Correspondence, 1958
- Date Created
- 1958
- Description
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Topics include correspondence with constituents about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports and Aiken's response; Senate proposal to freeze all farm price supports at existing level.
- Title
- Dairy, 1953
- Date Created
- 1953
- Description
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Topics include cost of feed; door-to-door delivery of milk and automatic dispensers; price support for dairy; decline in livestock values; surplus butter and the armed services; dairy industry advisory committee called by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; oleomargarine; large purchases of...
Show moreTopics include cost of feed; door-to-door delivery of milk and automatic dispensers; price support for dairy; decline in livestock values; surplus butter and the armed services; dairy industry advisory committee called by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; oleomargarine; large purchases of butter by the Commodity Credit Corporation; President Dwight Eisenhower; Milk Producers Federation banquet; two-price system; price of Class I milk; low fat content butter; shipment of unregulated milk into the New York-New Jersey marketing area; milk surplus.
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