Volume 69
Public Law 84–8
To amend the wheat marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.
Approved February 19, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the wheat marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (e)
Durum wheat.
Allotments.
of section 334 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1334 (e)), is amended, beginning with the 1955 crop of wheat, to read as follows:
“(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secretary shall increase the farm marketing quotas and acreage allotments for the 1955 crop of wheat for farms located in counties in the States of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota designated by the Secretary as counties which (1) are capable of producing class II durum wheat and (2) have produced such wheat for commercial food products during one or more of the ten years 1945 through 1954: Provided, That the increase in the wheat acreage allotment for any farm shall not exceed the difference between the acreage of cropland on the farm suitable for the production of wheat and the wheat acreage allotment, if any, determined without regard to this subsection, and the increase in allotment shall be conditioned upon the production thereon of class II durum wheat. The increase in wheat acreage allotments authorized by this subsection shall be in addition to the National, State, and county wheat acreage allotments, and the acreage of class II durum wheat thereon shall not be considered in establishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments,”
Approved February 19, 1955.