Agriculture [3 of 4], 1979-1980

Letters to and responses from James R. Jones regarding a bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that farmers may not participate in the price support program for the 1980 and 1981 crops of feed grains and wheat unless they implement plans for conservation and sustained use of soil and water on their farms (HR 3681); perishable agricultural commodities; Mexican tomatoes; a bill to extend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended, for one year (HR 3546); Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1979 (HR 3389); heirs of small family farms; support rate for the 1979 crop peanuts; Animal Welfare Amendments Act of 1979 (HR 2427); cuts to the cooperative extension program and its effects on 4-H and/or 4H; budget reductions in agricultural research; acreage limitations; farmers destroying potatoes to raise the price; a bill to prohibit using live animals as a visual lure in dog racing; subsidizing the tobacco industry; treatment of members of the American Agricultural Movement; consolidation of the Federal Home Administration into another department; FHA transfer proposal; Agricultural Disaster Relief Act of 1980 (HR 8210); a bill to amend the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C., 2321 et. seq.) to clarify its provisions (S 23/HR 999);