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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§590l Expansion of domestic and foreign markets for agricultural commodities; advances for crop insurance; transfer of funds to corporation

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 3B— - SOIL CONSERVATION › § 590l

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must use money from the program when doing so will help expand home or foreign markets, find new buyers, or remove extra supplies so consumers have steady access to farm products at prices fair to farmers and shoppers. The Secretary may also give advances to producers to pay Federal Crop Insurance Corporation premiums. Those payments go straight to the Corporation. Advances are only for producers in or agreeing to a program under section 590h. The Secretary sets the terms and may send estimated funds to the Corporation ahead of applications, and any unused funds must be returned.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §590l

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Whenever the Secretary finds that the exercise of the powers conferred in this section will tend to carry out the purpose specified in clause (5) of section 590g(a) of this title, or will tend to provide for and maintain a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair to both producers and consumers, or both, he shall use such part as he deems necessary of the sums appropriated to carry out this chapter for the expansion of domestic and foreign markets or for seeking new or additional markets for agricultural commodities or the products thereof or for the removal or disposition of surpluses of such commodities or the products thereof.
(b)The Secretary is authorized to make advances to producers for the purpose of assisting them to insure their crops with the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The Secretary shall remit the amount of any such advances to a producer directly to such Corporation in payment of the premium on the insurance for which the producer has made application. Advances shall only be made to producers who are participating or who agree to participate in a program formulated pursuant to section 590h of this title. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the terms and conditions of such advances shall be fixed by the Secretary. In carrying out the provisions of this subsection, the Secretary may transfer to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, prior to the execution of applications for insurance or requests for advances by producers, the funds estimated as necessary to cover the advances which will be requested for the payment of premiums under a crop-insurance program, and any portion of such funds not used for advances to producers under such program shall be returned to the Secretary by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1940—Subsec. (b). Act July 2, 1940, inserted last sentence. 1939—Act Mar. 25, 1939, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Administration of program of Federal Crop Insurance Corporation transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 501, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7877, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation consolidated with other agencies into Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration for duration of World War II, see Ex. Ord. No. 9069, Feb. 23, 1942. Functions respecting lands under jurisdiction of Department of the Interior, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 590a of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 590l

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73