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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- Aplin, Richard D. (Richard David) [1]
- Appelby, Paul [1]
- Austin, Warren R. (Warren Robinson), 1877-1962 [1]
- Butler, Hugh Alfred, 1878-1954 [1]
- Collins, Thomas. [1]
- Gaumnitz, E.M. [1]
- Hendrickson, Roy [1]
- Jones, Edward H. [1]
- Jones, Marvin [1]
- Simpson, W. Arthur [1]
Topic(s)
- Milk trade -- New York (State) [4]
- Milk -- Prices -- New York (State) [3]
- Milk -- Prices -- United States [3]
- Butter trade [2]
- Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds [2]
- Surplus agricultural commodities [2]
- United States. Agricultural Marketing Administration. [2]
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry [2]
- United States. Office of Price Administration. [2]
- Agricultural price supports -- United States [1]
- Agricultural prices -- Government policy -- United States [1]
- Agricultural societies -- United States. [1]
- Agricultural subsidies --United States [1]
- Animal industry -- Law and legislation [1]
- Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962 [1]
- Benson, Ezra Taft [1]
- Cheese industry -- United States [1]
- Commodity Credit Corporation [1]
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 [1]
- Livestock -- Marketing [1]
- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Milk -- Prices [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- Massachusetts [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- Rhode Island -- Providence. [1]
- Milk trade -- New Jersey [1]
- Milk trade -- Rhode Island -- Providence. [1]
- Milk trade Canada. [1]
- National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation [1]
- Newport (Vt.) [1]
- Price fixing -- United States. [1]
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 [1]
- United States. Office of Economic Stabilization. [1]
- United States. War Food Administration. [1]
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Topic: ("Milk trade -- New York (State)")
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: 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; drought conditions and low cost feed.
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.
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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