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)
- Aplin, Richard D. (Richard David) [1]
- Freeman, Orville L. [1]
- Leamy, W.P. [1]
- Lewis, Robert G. [1]
- McIntire, Clifford G. (Clifford Guy), 1908-1974 [1]
- Ralph, James T [1]
- Towne, Elmer [1]
- Weaver, Charles [1]
Topic(s)
- Agricultural price supports -- United States [1]
- Agriculture, Cooperative -- United States [1]
- Dairy laws -- United States [1]
- Farm production quotas [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- United States [1]
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Contributor: ("Lewis, Robert G.")
Topic: ("Milk trade -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States")
Title: Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, Whiting Company, Correspondence, Hearings, 1961
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1961
Resource type: text
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 suspension of the Class II price formula; failure of the Whiting Milk Company.
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