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)
- Towne, Elmer [4]
- Freeman, Orville L. [2]
- Anderson, Don S. [1]
- Aplin, Richard D. (Richard David) [1]
- Butz, Earl L. (Earl Lauer), 1909- [1]
- Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 [1]
- Foote, Ralph [1]
- Guinane, E.P. [1]
- Leamy, W.P. [1]
- Lewis, Robert G. [1]
Place(s)
- New Jersey [1]
- New York [1]
Topic(s)
- Milk trade -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States [5]
- Agricultural price supports -- United States [3]
- Milk -- Prices -- United States [3]
- Farm production quotas [2]
- Milk trade -- United States [2]
- Aplin, Richard D. (Richard David) [1]
- Brucellosis in cattle [1]
- Commodity Credit Corporation [1]
- Dairy farming -- United States [1]
- Dairy farms [1]
- Dairy laws -- United States [1]
- Dairy processing [1]
- Dairy products [1]
- Dairying -- Economic aspects [1]
- Dried milk industry [1]
- Farms, Small -- United States [1]
- Grain as feed [1]
- Milk hygiene -- Standards -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Milk supply -- Government policy -- United States [1]
- Milk trade [1]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Dairy Products [1]
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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.
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 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: 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
Resource type: text
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: Northeast Milk Marketing Order, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Resource type: text
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.
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