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 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.
Time Period Covered: 1941-1975
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Published: November 07, 2006, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Contributor(s)
- Proxmire, William [2]
- Towne, Elmer [2]
- Anderson, Don S. [1]
- Aplin, Richard D. (Richard David) [1]
- Butz, Earl L. (Earl Lauer), 1909- [1]
- Collins, Thomas. [1]
- Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 [1]
- Foote, Ralph [1]
- Freeman, Orville L. [1]
- Guinane, E.P. [1]
- Jones, Marvin [1]
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 [1]
- McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005 [1]
- Simpson, W. Arthur [1]
- Stanton, Harker T. [1]
- Stitts, T.G. [1]
- Stratton, Samuel S. [1]
- United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics [1]
- United States. Dept. of Agriculture [1]
- Weaver, Charles [1]
- Young, Milton Ruben, 1897-1983. [1]
Topic(s)
- Surplus agricultural commodities [7]
- Agricultural price supports -- United States [5]
- Milk -- Prices -- United States [5]
- Milk trade [3]
- Milk trade -- United States [3]
- Milk trade -- New York (State) [2]
- Agricultural prices -- Government policy -- United States [1]
- Agricultural subsidies -- United States [1]
- Agricultural subsidies --United States [1]
- Animal industry -- Law and legislation [1]
- Aplin, Richard D. (Richard David) [1]
- Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962 [1]
- Benson, Ezra Taft [1]
- Brucellosis in cattle [1]
- Cheese industry -- United States [1]
- Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds [1]
- Dairy farming -- United States [1]
- Dairy farms [1]
- Dairy processing [1]
- Dairy products [1]
- Dairy products -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Dairying -- Economic aspects [1]
- Dried milk industry [1]
- Droughts -- Economic aspects -- United States. [1]
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 [1]
- Farms, Small -- United States [1]
- Grain as feed [1]
- Livestock -- Marketing [1]
- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Milk -- Cooperative marketing [1]
- Milk -- Fat content. [1]
- Milk -- Prices [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- Massachusetts [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- New York (State) [1]
- Milk trade -- New Jersey [1]
- Milk trade Canada. [1]
- National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation [1]
- Newport (Vt.) [1]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Dairy Products [1]
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry [1]
- United States. Office of Price Administration. [1]
- United States. War Food Administration. [1]
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Topic: ("Surplus agricultural commodities")
Title: Dairy – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1963
Resource type: text
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 – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984
Date: 1963
Resource type: text
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 production and surpluses; comments of Elmer Towne, Vermont Commisssioner of Agriculture, on Kennedy administration’s proposed dairy legislation.
Title: Dairy, 1953
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1953
Resource type: text
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 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.
Title: Dairy: Correspondence, 1954
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1954
Topics include proposal relating to the parity equivalent of manufacturing milk; disposal of powdered milk surplus in foreign countries; Richard Aplin, Milk Marketing Administrator for the Boston Area; price supports and government surpluses of dairy products; marketing quotas and reduced output of milk; fluid milk purchases; export of dairy products; herd culling program; proper use of diverted acres; price of grain used for dairy rations; milk rations for Armed Services; size of dairy farms and government support for small farms; Commodity Credit Corporation; Senate Committee on Agriculture hearings on dairy support price; decreasing demand for milk; role of Democratic party in creating current dairy industry problems; milk vending machines for office buildings and factories; strawberry milk; Brucellosis; sale of milk in two and four quart cartons; importation of hay and cattle from Canada; field dairy hearings; proposed dairy program; President Eisenhower's flexible price support program; Agricultural Agreement Act of 1937 and domestic trade barriers affecting milk and milk products; meeting of all farm organizations in Vermont interested in dairy to consider general policy questions.
Title: Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Resource type: text
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 supports; memo from Charlie Weaver to Aiken about a plan proposed by Bill Welden of Hood to fight proposed quota legislation.
Title: Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Resource type: text
Topics include Senator Aiken's correspondence to constituents on small dairy farms; processing tax on feed grain; dairy farm surpluses; milk dating; marketing quotas; roller dried skim milk powder; proposal to collect milk promotion funds through federal milk market orders; bulk tanks; Milk Marketing Program; improving milk quality and production methods.
Title: Milk, 1943-1945
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1943-1945
Resource type: text
Topics include milk prices for Springfield and Fitchburg, Massachusetts; creamery butter and cheese production estimates; dairy subsidies and milk production; Senate Committee on Agriculture; Senator Warren Austin (VT); Board of Health regulations and the unloading of milk at Hood's creamery in Newport, Vermont; United Farmers Co-operative Creamery Association, Inc.; United States War Food Administration; effect of drought on hay and pasture crops; State Control Boards and surplus milk; United States Office of Price Administration; milk coolers; price of whole milk and butter; Ingelside Dairy; New York milk marketing area; milk fat quota and the manufacture of frozen dairy foods and mix; retail price of milk; importation of milk from Canada.
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