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)
- Anderson, Don S. [1]
- Bailey, Consuelo Northrop, 1899-1976 [1]
- Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961 [1]
- Gore, Albert, 1907-1998 [1]
- Green, Theodore Francis, 1867-1966 [1]
- McWilliams, R.C.; [1]
- Stephens, Thomas E. (Thomas Edwin), 1903-1988 [1]
- Towne, Elmer [1]
- United States. Dept. of Agriculture [1]
- Vermont Milk Control Board [1]
Topic(s)
- Milk -- Prices -- United States [2]
- Milk consumption [2]
- Milk trade -- United States [2]
- Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 1890- [1]
- Agricultural price supports -- United States [1]
- Dairy processing -- Vermont -- Brattleboro [1]
- Dairy products -- Cooperative marketing [1]
- Dairying -- Economic aspects [1]
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 [1]
- Foreign trade regulation -- United States [1]
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 [1]
- Ice cream, ices, etc. -- Law and legislation [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- New England [1]
- Milk trade -- New England [1]
- Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England [1]
- New England Dairy and Food Council [1]
- Price regulation -- United States [1]
- Products liability -- Dairy products [1]
- Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953 [1]
- Trade regulation -- United States [1]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Dairy Products [1]
- United States. Office of Economic Stabilization -- Appropriations and expenditures [1]
- Wiley, Alexander, 1884-1967 [1]
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Topic: ("Milk consumption")
Title: Dairy Products: Correspondence, 1955
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1955
Resource type: text
Topics include price subsidies for milk and their relation to production and consumption; President Eisenhower and the Democratic Congress; controversy over grain elevators in Pakistan; views of the late Senator Robert Taft (OH) on farms; price for milk in the Boston market; Brucellosis program funding; failure to include northern New Jersey in a milk order; insertion of comments by Elmer Towne into the Congressional Record by Senator Aiken; effort to equalize milk prices nationally; money spent in Vermont and New England for milk promotion through the Vermont Dairy Council , the American Dairy Association of Vermont, Milk for Health, Inc., and the New England Dairy and Food Council; proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; New York milk price; Aiken's request that milk vending machines be placed in the Senate Office Building; hearings about proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; bulk milk tanks; request for President Eisenhower to visit the Vermont Dairy Festival in 1956; local ordinances and state laws on milk; New York-New Jersey milk regulation; Vermont hearing on "Rules and Regulations Relating to the Manufacture and Sale of Ice Cream and Other Frozen Dairy Products"; Aiken press release urging Republican women to drink milk; current rate of purchases of dairy products; handling of milk in the Brattleboro area.
Title: Dairy: Abernethy "Self-Help" bill (Library), 1958
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1958
Resource type: text
Topics include H.R. 10043 by Representative Thomas Abernethy (MS), which is the same as a bill in the Senate by Senators Hubert Humphrey (MN) and Alexander Wiley (WI); bill would establish a "Dairy Stabilization Board" which would be empowered to fix prices, control production, establish the level of price supports for manufacturing milk, and conceivably take over all the processing functions; response of Vermont farm organizations to the bill; Aiken's estimation of the chance of the bill in Congress; current balance between consumption and production of milk; fertilizer payments; Vermont hearings on the "Self-Help" bill.
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