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Agricultural Subsidies: Program Approved by House Committee

 Digital item
Identifier: CAC_CC_009_2_44_2_0019

Dates

  • Creation: 22-Jul-70
  • Creation: 91st Congress (1969-1971)

Scope and Contents

The House Agriculture Committee has reached a tentative agreement on a three-year subsidy program for dairy, wool, wheat, feed grain, and cotton producers. The cost of the new program is estimated at just over $3 billion per year, and it will include a limit on subsidy payments to individual producers of $55,000 per year.

Full Extent

1 pages

Language of Materials

English