Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 100 — Agricultural Market Transition
§ 7332. Risk management education
Statutory text
In consultation with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Secretary shall provide such education in management of the financial risks inherent in the production and marketing of agricultural commodities as the Secretary considers appropriate. As part of such educational activities, the Secretary may develop and implement programs to facilitate the participation of agricultural producers in commodity futures trading programs, forward contracting options, and insurance protection programs by assisting and training producers in the usage of such programs. In implementing this authority, the Secretary may use existing research and extension authorities and resources of the Department of Agriculture.
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.
Agricultural Market Transition Act
Pub. L. 104–127 title I § 192 · 110 Stat. 888
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 7332
(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 192, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 942.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 192, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 942.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 192. RISK MANAGEMENT EDUCATION. In consultation with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Secretary shall provide such education in management of the financial risks inherent in the production and marketing of agricultural commodities as the Secretary considers appropriate. As part of such educational activities, the Secretary may develop and implement programs to facilitate the participation of agricultural producers in commodity futures trading programs, forward contracting options, and insurance protection programs by assisting and training producers in the usage of such programs. In implementing this authority, the Secretary may use existing research and extension authorities and resources of the Department of Agriculture.
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