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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- Anderson, Don S. [1]
- Appelby, Paul [1]
- Austin, Warren R. (Warren Robinson), 1877-1962 [1]
- Butz, Earl L. (Earl Lauer), 1909- [1]
- Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970 [1]
- Gaumnitz, E.M. [1]
- Guinane, E.P. [1]
- Hendrickson, Roy [1]
- Stanton, Harker T. [1]
- Towne, Elmer [1]
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- Agricultural prices -- Government policy -- United States [2]
- Milk -- Prices -- United States [2]
- Milk trade -- United States [2]
- Agricultural price supports -- United States [1]
- Agricultural societies -- United States. [1]
- Dairy processing [1]
- Dairying -- Economic aspects [1]
- Dried milk industry [1]
- Farms, Small -- United States [1]
- Grain as feed [1]
- Milk -- Fat content. [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- Massachusetts -- Boston. [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- New York (State) [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- Rhode Island -- Providence. [1]
- Milk trade [1]
- Milk trade -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Milk trade -- Massachusetts -- Boston. [1]
- Milk trade -- New York (State) [1]
- Milk trade -- Rhode Island -- Providence. [1]
- Price fixing -- United States. [1]
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 [1]
- Surplus agricultural commodities [1]
- United States. Agricultural Marketing Administration. [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 Economic Stabilization. [1]
- United States. Office of Price Administration. [1]
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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: Milk Marketing, 1941-1942
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984
Date: 1941-1942
Resource type: text
Topics include milk prices; United States Department of Agriculture Marketing Administration regulations for the Greater Boston and New York marketing areas; need for unification of agricultural groups to become a stronger advocate for farmers; Agricultural Marketing Agreement of 1937; milk distributors in the greater New York City area and price fixing; Senate Committee on Agriculture; Providence, Rhode Island Milk Market; butter fat content of milk; United States Department of Agriculture Office of Price Administration; milk retailers; President Roosevelt's Economic Stabilization Program.
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