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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 18 — Cooperative Marketing

§ 455. Dissemination of crop, market, etc., information by cooperative marketing associations

Statutory text

Persons engaged, as original producers of agricultural products, such as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers, acting together in associations, corporate or otherwise, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in interstate and/or foreign commerce such products of persons so engaged, may acquire, exchange, interpret, and disseminate past, present, and prospective crop, market, statistical, economic, and other similar information by direct exchange between such persons, and/or such associations or federations thereof, and/or by and through a common agent created or selected by them.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 69–725 § 5 · 44 Stat. 802

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 455

    (July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 5, 44 Stat. 803.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 5, 44 Stat. 803.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. Persons engaged, as original producers of agricultural Associations of agricultural producers may exchange crop informations with each other, etc. products, such as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers, acting together in associations, corporate or other-wise, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in interstate and/or foreign commerce such products of persons so engaged, may acquire, exchange, interpret, and disseminate past, present, and prospective crop, market, statistical, economic, and other similar information by direct exchange between such persons, and/or such associations or federations thereof, and/or by and through a common agent created or selected by them.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 5, 44 Stat. 803.)

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