Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§1441a Cost of production study and establishment of current national weighted average cost of production
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 35A— - PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - BASIC AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES › § 1441a
Summary
Secretary must, with land‑grant colleges, commodity/farm organizations, and farmers, annually establish a national weighted average cost for producing wheat, feed‑grain, cotton and dairy, including variable, interest, fixed‑cost, and management returns.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §1441a
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The Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the land grant colleges, commodity organizations, general farm organizations, and individual farmers, shall conduct a cost of production study of the wheat, feed grain, cotton, and dairy commodities under the various production practices and establish a current national weighted average cost of production. This study shall be updated annually and shall include all typical variable costs, including interest costs, a return on fixed costs, and a return for management.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 1970 as added by the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, and not as part of the Agricultural Act of 1949 which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of the 1949 Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.
Amendments
1981—Pub. L. 97–98 inserted “including interest costs,” after “variable costs,”, substituted “, and a return for management” for “equal to the existing interest rates charged by the Federal Land Bank, and return for management comparable to the normal management fees charged by other comparable industries”, and struck out provision that these studies be based upon the size unit that requires one man to farm on a full-time basis.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–98 effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as an
Effective Date
note under section 4301 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 1441a
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73