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§1441a Cost of Production Study and Establishment of Current National Weighted Average Cost of Production

Title 7 › CHAPTER 35A — PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES › SUBCHAPTER II — BASIC AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES › § 1441a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require the Agriculture Secretary to work with land‑grant colleges, commodity and farm groups, and farmers to study and set a current national weighted average cost to produce wheat, feed grain, cotton, and dairy. Update the study yearly and include all usual variable costs (including interest), a return on fixed costs, and a return for management.

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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102