Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§1741 Maximum and Minimum Quantities for Set-aside; “commodity Set-aside” Defined
Title 7 › Chapter 42— AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY SET-ASIDE › § 1741
Summary
The Commodity Credit Corporation must, as the Secretary of Agriculture decides is practicable, set aside specific amounts from its price‑support inventories that came from 1954 and earlier crops. The limits are: Wheat — max 500,000,000 bushels, min 400,000,000; Upland cotton — max 4,000,000 bales, min 3,000,000; Cottonseed oil — 500,000,000 pounds; Butter — 200,000,000 pounds; Nonfat dry milk solids — 300,000,000 pounds; Cheese — 150,000,000 pounds. These amounts are called the "commodity set-aside."
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Title 7, §1741
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The Commodity Credit Corporation shall, as rapidly as the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine to be practicable, set aside within its inventories not more than the following maximum quantities and not less than the following minimum quantities of agricultural commodities or products thereof heretofore or hereafter acquired by it from 1954 and prior years’ crops and production in connection with its price support operations: CommodityMaximum quantityMinimum quantity Wheat (bushels)500,000,000400,000,000 Upland cotton (bales)4,000,0003,000,000 Cottonseed oil (pounds)500,000,000 Butter (pounds)200,000,000 Nonfat dry milk solids (pounds)300,000,000 Cheese (pounds)150,000,000 Such quantities shall be known as the “commodity set-aside”.
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Short Title
Act Aug. 28, 1954, enacting section 397, 1446b and 1446c of this title, this chapter, chapters 43 and 44 of this title, and section 590h–3 of Title 16, Conservation, and amending section 602, 608c, 608e–1, 1301, 1326–1330, 1332, 1334–1335, 1340, 1344, 1371, 1374, 1421, 1428, 1441, 1446, 1446d of this title and section 590h and 590o of Title 16, Conservation, is popularly known as the “Agricultural Act of 1954”.
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7 U.S.C. § 1741
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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