Federal

Title 7 — Agriculture

2,926 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 1 — Short title
• § 10 — Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39 , 62 Stat. 992 , eff. Sept. 1, 1948
• § 1000 — Short title
• § 1001 to 1006 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a) , Aug. 8, 1961 , 75 Stat. 318
• § 1006a — Loans to homestead or desertland entrymen and purchasers of lands in reclamation projects; security; first repayment installment
• § 1006b — Cancellation of entry or purchase upon loan default; entry or resale; conditions; satisfaction of indebtedness
• § 1006c to 1006e — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a) , Aug. 8, 1961 , 75 Stat. 318
• § 1007 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a) , Aug. 8, 1961 , 75 Stat. 318
• § 1007a — Omitted
• § 1008, 1009 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a) , Aug. 8, 1961 , 75 Stat. 318
• § 1010 — Land conservation and land utilization
• § 1010a — Soil, water, and related resource data
• § 1011 — Powers of Secretary of Agriculture
• § 1012 — Payments to counties
• § 1012a — Townsites
• § 1013 — Omitted
• § 1013a — Benefits extended to Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands; “county” defined; payments to Governor or fiscal agent of county
• § 1014 to 1025 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a) , Aug. 8, 1961 , 75 Stat. 318
• § 1026 — Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 21 , 62 Stat. 862 , eff. Sept. 1, 1948
• § 1027 to 1029 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a) , Aug. 8, 1961 , 75 Stat. 318
• § 1030 — Consolidation of agricultural credit and service offices
• § 1031 — Conveyance of mineral rights with land
• § 1032 — Transfer of rights and duties of Reconstruction Finance Corporation arising out of rehabilitation and farm tenancy loans to Secretary of the Treasury
• § 1032a — Disbursing and certifying officers; exemption from liability for advances to defense relocation corporations
• § 1033 — Sale of reserved mineral interests
• § 1034 — Persons to whom mineral interests sold; conveyances
• § 1035 — Sale of mineral interests; consideration; transfer of unsold interests to Secretary of the Interior
• § 1036 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–353, § 3(m) , Oct. 4, 1961 , 75 Stat. 774
• § 1037 — Sale of reserved mineral interests; disposition of proceeds
• § 1038 — Regulations; delegations of authority
• § 1039 — Time for filing purchase applications
• § 1040 — Farmers’ Home Administration funds account
• § 10a — Cooperative associations and corporations, exclusion from board of trade; rules of board inapplicable to payment of compensation by association
• § 11 — Vacation on request of designation or registration as “registered entity”; redesignation or reregistration
• § 1100 — Omitted
• § 1101 — Omitted
• § 111 to 116 — Repealed. Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, § 419 , 53 Stat. 1290
• § 1111 to 1122 — Omitted
• § 1123 — Repealed. Pub. L. 89–331, § 10 , Nov. 8, 1965 , 79 Stat. 1278
• § 1131 to 1137 — Omitted
• § 1151 to 1161 — Omitted
• § 1171 — Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a) , Sept. 6, 1966 , 80 Stat. 649
• § 1172 to 1183 — Omitted
• § 12 — Public disclosure
• § 12–1 to 12–3 — Omitted
• § 121 to 134 — Repealed. June 25, 1947, ch. 125, § 16 , 61 Stat. 172
• § 1281 — Short title
• § 1282 — Declaration of policy
• § 1282a — Emergency supply of agricultural products
• § 1291 — Adjustments in freight rates
• § 1292 — New uses and markets for commodities
• § 1293 — Transferred
• § 12a — Registration of commodity dealers and associated persons; regulation of registered entities
• § 12b — Trading ban violations; prohibition
• § 12c — Disciplinary actions
• § 12d — Commission action for noncompliance with export sales reporting requirements
• § 12e — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(21)] , Dec. 21, 2000 , 114 Stat. 2763 , 2763A–410
• § 13 — Violations generally; punishment; costs of prosecution
• § 13–1 — Violations, prohibition against dealings in motion picture box office receipts or onion futures; punishment
• § 1301 — Definitions
• § 1301a — References to parity prices, etc., in other laws after January 1, 1950
• § 1301b — Repealed. Pub. L. 85–835, title I, § 108 , Aug. 28, 1958 , 72 Stat. 993
• § 1302 — Repealed. Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792 , title IV, § 414, 63 Stat. 1057
• § 1303 — Parity payments
• § 1304 — Consumer safeguards
• § 1305 — Transfer of acreage allotments or feed grain bases on public lands upon request of State agencies
• § 1306 — Projected yields; determination; base period
• § 1307 — Limitation on payments under wheat, feed grains, and cotton programs for 1974 through 1977 crops
• § 1308 — Payment limitations
• § 1308–1 — Notification of interests; payments limited to active farmers
• § 1308–2 — Denial of program benefits
• § 1308–3 — Foreign persons made ineligible for program benefits
• § 1308–3a — Adjusted gross income limitation
• § 1308–4 — Education program
• § 1308–5 — Treatment of multiyear program contract payments
• § 1308a — Cost reduction options
• § 1309 — Normally planted acreage and target prices
• § 1310 — American agriculture protection program
• § 1310a — Normal supply of commodity for 1986 through 1995 crops
• § 1311 to 1314–1 — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–357, title VI, § 611(a) , Oct. 22, 2004 , 118 Stat. 1522
• § 1314a — Repealed. Pub. L. 90–51, § 2 , July 7, 1967 , 81 Stat. 121
• § 1314b to 1314j — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–357, title VI, § 611(a) , Oct. 22, 2004 , 118 Stat. 1522
• § 1315 — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–357, title VI, § 611(o) , Oct. 22, 2004 , 118 Stat. 1523
• § 1316 — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–357, title VI, § 611(p) , Oct. 22, 2004 , 118 Stat. 1523
• § 1321 — Legislative finding of effect on interstate and foreign commerce and necessity of regulation
• § 1322 — Repealed. Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041 , title III, § 304, 68 Stat. 902
• § 1322a — Repealed. July 3, 1948, ch. 827 , title II, § 203(b), 62 Stat. 1256
• § 1323 to 1325 — Repealed. Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041 , title III, § 304, 68 Stat. 902
• § 1326 — Adjustment of farm marketing quotas
• § 1327 to 1329 — Omitted
• § 1329a — Discontinuance of acreage allotments on corn
• § 1330 — Omitted
• § 1331 — Legislative finding of effect on interstate and foreign commerce and necessity of regulation
• § 1332 — National marketing quota
• § 1333 — National acreage allotment
• § 1334 — Apportionment of national acreage allotment
• § 1334a — Omitted
• § 1334a–1 — Summer fallow farms; upper limit on required set aside acreage for 1971 through 1977 wheat, feed grain, and cotton crops
• § 1334b — Designation of States outside commercial wheat-producing areas
• § 1335 — Small-farm exemption; small-farm base acreage; election; acreage allotment; land-use provisions; price support; wheat marketing certificates
• § 1336 — Referendum
• § 1337 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–703, title III, § 317 , Sept. 27, 1962 , 76 Stat. 622
• § 1338 — Transfer of quotas
• § 1339 — Land use
• § 1339a — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1613(j)(1) , May 13, 2002 , 116 Stat. 221
• § 1339b — Wheat diversion programs; credits in establishment of State, county and farm acreage allotments for wheat
• § 1339c — Feed grains diversion programs for 1964 and subsequent years; feed grain acreage considered wheat acreage and wheat acreage considered feed grain acreage
• § 1339d — Hay production on set-aside or diverted acreage; storage; emergency use; loans
• § 1340 — Supplemental provisions relating to wheat marketing quotas; marketing penalty for rice; crop loans on cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco, and peanuts
• § 1341 — Legislative findings
• § 1342 — National marketing quota; proclamation; amount; date of proclamation
• § 1342a — National cotton production goal
• § 1343 — Referendum
• § 1344 — Apportionment of national acreage allotments
• § 1344a — Exclusion of 1949 acreage in computation of future allotments
• § 1344b — Sale, lease, or transfer of cotton acreage allotments
• § 1345 — Farm marketing quotas; farm marketing excess
• § 1346 — Penalties
• § 1347 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–88, § 2 , Aug. 26, 1983 , 97 Stat. 494
• § 1348 — Payments in kind to equalize cost of cotton to domestic and foreign users; rules and regulations; termination date; persons eligible; amount; terms and conditions; raw cotton in inventory
• § 1349 — Export market acreage
• § 135 to 135k — Omitted
• § 1350 — National base acreage allotment
• § 1350a — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–470, title I, § 102(e) , Oct. 19, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2237
• § 1351 — Omitted
• § 1352 to 1356 — Repealed. Pub. L. 97–98, title VI, § 601 , Dec. 22, 1981 , 95 Stat. 1242
• § 1357 to 1359a — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1309(a)(1) , May 13, 2002 , 116 Stat. 179
• § 1359aa — Definitions
• § 1359bb — Flexible marketing allotments for sugar
• § 1359cc — Establishment of flexible marketing allotments
• § 1359dd — Allocation of marketing allotments
• § 1359ee — Reassignment of deficits
• § 1359ff — Provisions applicable to producers
• § 1359gg — Special rules
• § 1359hh — Regulations; violations; publication of Secretary’s determinations; jurisdiction of the courts; United States attorneys
• § 1359ii — Appeals
• § 1359jj — Administration
• § 1359kk — Administration of tariff rate quotas
• § 1359ll — Period of effectiveness
• § 136 — Definitions
• § 1361 — Application of subpart
• § 1362 — Publication of marketing quota; mailing of allotment notice
• § 1363 — Review of quota; review committee
• § 1364 — Compensation of review committee
• § 1365 — Institution of proceeding for court review of committee findings
• § 1366 — Court review
• § 1367 — Stay of proceedings and exclusive jurisdiction
• § 1368 — Effect of increase on other quotas
• § 136a — Registration of pesticides
• § 136a–1 — Reregistration of registered pesticides
• § 136b — Transferred
• § 136c — Experimental use permits
• § 136d — Administrative review; suspension
• § 136e — Registration of establishments
• § 136f — Books and records
• § 136g — Inspection of establishments, etc.
• § 136h — Protection of trade secrets and other information
• § 136i — Use of restricted use pesticides; applicators
• § 136i–1 — Pesticide recordkeeping
• § 136i–2 — Collection of pesticide use information
• § 136j — Unlawful acts
• § 136k — Stop sale, use, removal, and seizure
• § 136l — Penalties
• § 136m — Indemnities
• § 136n — Administrative procedure; judicial review
• § 136o — Imports and exports
• § 136p — Exemption of Federal and State agencies
• § 136q — Storage, disposal, transportation, and recall
• § 136r — Research and monitoring
• § 136r–1 — Integrated Pest Management
• § 136s — Solicitation of comments; notice of public hearings
• § 136t — Delegation and cooperation
• § 136u — State cooperation, aid, and training
• § 136v — Authority of States
• § 136w — Authority of Administrator
• § 136w–1 — State primary enforcement responsibility
• § 136w–2 — Failure by the State to assure enforcement of State pesticide use regulations
• § 136w–3 — Identification of pests; cooperation with Department of Agriculture’s program
• § 136w–4 — Omitted
• § 136w–5 — Minimum requirements for training of maintenance applicators and service technicians
• § 136w–6 — Environmental Protection Agency minor use program
• § 136w–7 — Department of Agriculture minor use program
• § 136w–8 — Pesticide registration service fees
• § 136x — Severability
• § 136y — Authorization of appropriations
• § 1371 — General adjustment of quotas
• § 1372 — Payment, collection, and refund of penalties
• § 1373 — Reports and records
• § 1374 — Measurement of farms and report of plantings; remeasurement
• § 1375 — Regulations
• § 1376 — Court jurisdiction; duties of United States attorneys; remedies and penalties as additional
• § 1377 — Preservation of unused acreage allotments
• § 1378 — Transfer of acreage allotments ensuing from agency acquisition of farmlands
• § 1379 — Reconstitution of farms
• § 1379a — Legislative findings
• § 1379b — Wheat marketing allocation; amount; national allocation percentage; commercial and noncommercial wheat-producing areas
• § 1379c — Marketing certificates
• § 1379d — Marketing restrictions
• § 1379e — Assistance in purchase and sale of marketing certificates; regulations; administrative expenses; interest
• § 1379f — Conversion factors