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Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§611 “basic Agricultural Commodity” Defined; Exclusion of Commodities

Title 7 › CHAPTER 26 — AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT › SUBCHAPTER III — COMMODITY BENEFITS › § 611

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Names certain farm products as "basic agricultural commodities," such as wheat, corn, rice, potatoes, milk and milk products, cotton, tobacco, cattle, hogs, peanuts, and sugar beets and sugarcane. The Secretary of Agriculture must remove any listed commodity, or a classification, type, or grade of it, from these rules for a time if, after investigation and a hearing, they find production, marketing, or consumption conditions make the rules impossible to carry out to achieve the law’s policy. "Potatoes" means all varieties of Solanum tuberosum.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §611

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As used in this chapter, the term “basic agricultural commodity” means wheat, rye, flax, barley, cotton, field corn, grain sorghums, hogs, cattle, rice, potatoes, tobacco, sugar beets and sugarcane, peanuts, and milk and its products, and any regional or market classification, type, or grade thereof; but the Secretary of Agriculture shall exclude from the operation of the provisions of this chapter, during any period, any such commodity or classification, type, or grade thereof if he finds, upon investigation at any time and after due notice and opportunity for hearing to interested parties, that the conditions of production, marketing, and consumption are such that during such period this chapter can not be effectively administered to the end of effectuating the declared policy with respect to such commodity or classification, type, or grade thereof. As used in this chapter, the term “potatoes” means all varieties of potatoes included in the species Solanum tuberosum.

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Amendments

1935—Act Aug. 24, 1935, inserted “, potatoes” after “rice” and last sentence defining potatoes. 1934—Act May 9, 1934, inserted “, sugar beets and sugarcane” after “tobacco”. Act Apr. 7, 1934, inserted “, cattle” after “hogs”, “, peanuts” after “tobacco”, “, rye, flax, barley” after “wheat”, and “, grain sorghums” after “field corn”.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 611

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102