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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§1308–4 Education program

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 35— - AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part Part A— - Definitions, Loans, Parity Payments, and Consumer Safeguards › § 1308–4

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must run a training program for USDA staff and for county and State committee members so payment limits are applied fairly and consistently. The program must teach how to use the laws and rules about payments for individual farms. State offices of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service make the first decision for farms with more than five people. The Secretary must carry out the program through the Commodity Credit Corporation.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1308–4

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary shall carry out a payment provisions education program for appropriate personnel of the Department of Agriculture and members and other personnel of county and State committees established under section 590h(b) of title 16, for the purpose of fostering more effective and uniform application of the payment limitations and restrictions established under sections 1308 through 1308–3 of this title.
(b)The education program shall provide training to the personnel in the fair, accurate, and uniform application to individual farming operations of the provisions of law and regulation relating to the payment provisions of sections 1308 through 1308–3 of this title.
(c)The State office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service shall make the initial determination concerning the application of payment limitations and restrictions established under sections 1308 through 1308–3 of this title to farm operations consisting of more than 5 persons, subject to review by the Secretary.
(d)The Secretary shall carry out the program provided under this section through the Commodity Credit Corporation.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Food Security Act of 1985, and not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which comprises this chapter.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1001E of Pub. L. 99–198 was renumbered section 1001F and is classified to section 1308–5 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective beginning with 1991 crop of an agricultural commodity, with provision for prior crops, see section 1171 of Pub. L. 101–624, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1990 Amendment note under section 1421 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1308–4

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73