Federal
Title 7 — Agriculture
2,926 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 6506 — General requirements
- § 6507 — State organic certification program
- § 6508 — Prohibited crop production practices and materials
- § 6509 — Animal production practices and materials
- § 6510 — Handling
- § 6511 — Additional guidelines
- § 6512 — Other production and handling practices
- § 6513 — Organic plan
- § 6514 — Accreditation program
- § 6515 — Requirements of certifying agents
- § 6516 — Peer review of certifying agents
- § 6517 — National List
- § 6518 — National Organic Standards Board
- § 6519 — Recordkeeping, investigations, and enforcement
- § 6520 — Administrative appeal
- § 6521 — Administration
- § 6521a — Organic agricultural product imports interagency working group
- § 6522 — Funding
- § 6523 — National organic certification cost-share program
- § 6524 — Organically produced food
- § 6601 — Forestry rural revitalization
- § 6611 — Findings and purposes
- § 6612 — Definitions
- § 6613 — Rural natural resources and economic diversification action teams
- § 6614 — Action plan implementation
- § 6615 — Training and education
- § 6616 — Loans to economically disadvantaged rural communities
- § 6617 — Authorization of appropriations and spending authority
- § 6701 — Global Climate Change Program
- § 6702 — Study of global climate change, agriculture, and forestry
- § 6703 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VIII, § 868 , Apr. 4, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1175
- § 6704 — Office of International Forestry
- § 6705 — Line item
- § 6706 — Institutes of Tropical Forestry
- § 6707 — Urban forestry demonstration projects
- § 6708 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title VIII, § 8301(a) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4840
- § 6709 — Interagency cooperation to maximize biomass growth
- § 671 — Arbitration of disputes concerning milk
- § 6710 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 6711 — Carbon cycle research
- § 6712 — Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program
- § 672 — Agreements; licenses, regulations, programs, etc., unaffected
- § 673 — Taxes under Agricultural Adjustment Act; laws unaffected
- § 674 — Short title
- § 6801 — Findings and declaration of policy
- § 6802 — Definitions
- § 6803 — Issuance of orders
- § 6804 — Required terms in orders
- § 6805 — Exclusion; determinations
- § 6806 — Referenda
- § 6807 — Petition and review
- § 6808 — Enforcement
- § 6809 — Investigations and power to subpoena
- § 6810 — Confidentiality
- § 6811 — Authority for Secretary to suspend or terminate order
- § 6812 — Construction
- § 6813 — Regulations
- § 6814 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 6901 — Purpose
- § 6902 — Definitions
- § 6911 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(a)(1) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4981
- § 6912 — Authority of Secretary to delegate transferred functions
- § 6913, 6914 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(a)(2) , (3), Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4981
- § 6915 — Combination of field offices
- § 6916 — Improvement of information sharing
- § 6917 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(a)(4) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4981
- § 6918 — Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture
- § 6919 — Military Veterans Agricultural Liaison
- § 6920 — Office of Energy Policy and New Uses
- § 6921 — Office of Tribal Relations
- § 6922 — Office of Homeland Security
- § 6923 — Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production
- § 6924 — Food Loss and Waste Reduction Liaison
- § 6925 — Food Access Liaison
- § 6931 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation
- § 6932 — Farm Service Agency
- § 6932a — Prohibition on closure or relocation of county offices for the Farm Service Agency
- § 6933 — Office of Risk Management
- § 6934 — Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement
- § 6934a — Beginning farmer and rancher coordination
- § 6934b — Agricultural Youth Organization Coordinator
- § 6935 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(b) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4981
- § 6936 — Natural Resources Conservation Service
- § 6941 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development
- § 6941a — Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Rural Areas
- § 6942 — Rural Utilities Service
- § 6943 — Rural Housing and Community Development Service
- § 6944 — Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service
- § 6945 — Rural Development Disaster Assistance Fund
- § 6946 — Rural Health Liaison
- § 6951 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
- § 6952 — Multiagency task force
- § 6953 — Healthy food financing initiative
- § 6961 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment
- § 6962 — Transferred
- § 6962a — Cooperative agreements
- § 6963 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(a)(5) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4981
- § 6971 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics
- § 6972 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(a)(6) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4981
- § 6981 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
- § 6982 — Conditions for implementation of alterations in the level of additives allowed in animal diets
- § 6991 — Definitions
- § 6992 — National Appeals Division and Director
- § 6993 — Transfer of functions
- § 6994 — Notice and opportunity for hearing
- § 6995 — Informal hearings
- § 6996 — Right of participants to Division hearing
- § 6997 — Division hearings
- § 6998 — Director review of determinations of hearing officers
- § 6999 — Judicial review
- § 6a — Excessive speculation
- § 6b — Contracts designed to defraud or mislead
- § 6b–1 — Enforcement authority
- § 6c — Prohibited transactions
- § 6d — Dealing by unregistered futures commission merchants or introducing brokers prohibited; duties in handling customer receipts; conflict-of-interest systems and procedures; Chief Compliance Officer; rules to avoid duplicative regulations; swap requirements; portfolio margining accounts
- § 6e — Dealings by unregistered floor trader or broker prohibited
- § 6f — Registration and financial requirements; risk assessment
- § 6g — Reporting and recordkeeping
- § 6h — False self-representation as registered entity member prohibited
- § 6i — Reports of deals equal to or in excess of trading limits; books and records; cash and controlled transactions
- § 6j — Restrictions on dual trading in security futures products on designated contract markets and registered derivatives transaction execution facilities
- § 6k — Registration of associates of futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, and commodity trading advisors; required disclosure of disqualifications; exemptions for associated persons
- § 6l — Commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; Congressional finding
- § 6m — Use of mails or other means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce by commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; relation to other law
- § 6n — Registration of commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; application; expiration and renewal; record keeping and reports; disclosure; statements of account
- § 6o — Fraud and misrepresentation by commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, and associated persons
- § 6o–1 — Transferred
- § 6p — Standards and examinations
- § 6q — Special procedures to encourage and facilitate bona fide hedging by agricultural producers
- § 6r — Reporting and recordkeeping for uncleared swaps
- § 6s — Registration and regulation of swap dealers and major swap participants
- § 6t — Large swap trader reporting
- § 7 — Designation of boards of trade as contract markets
- § 7000 — Implementation of final determinations of Division
- § 7001 — Conforming amendments relating to National Appeals Division
- § 7002 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 7005 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs
- § 7007 — Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs
- § 701 to 723 — Repealed. Feb. 10, 1936, ch. 42 , 49 Stat. 1106
- § 7011 — Successorship provisions relating to bargaining units and exclusive representatives
- § 7012 — Purchase of American-made equipment and products
- § 7013 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12414(a)(7) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4981
- § 7014 — Termination of authority
- § 7031 — Electronic filing and retrieval
- § 7032 — Accessing information and filing over the Internet
- § 7033 — Availability of agency information technology funds
- § 7034 — Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and Risk Management Agency
- § 7035 — Confidentiality
- § 71 — Short title
- § 7101 — Findings and declaration of policy
- § 7102 — Definitions
- § 7103 — Issuance and amendment of orders
- § 7104 — Required terms in orders
- § 7105 — Referenda
- § 7106 — Petition and review
- § 7107 — Enforcement
- § 7108 — Investigations and power to subpoena
- § 7109 — Administrative provisions
- § 7110 — Regulations
- § 7111 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 72, 73 — Omitted
- § 7201 — Short title and purpose
- § 7202 — Definitions
- § 7211 — Authorization for use of production flexibility contracts
- § 7212 — Elements of contracts
- § 7213 — Amounts available for contract payments
- § 7214 — Determination of contract payments under contracts
- § 7215 — Applicability of payment limitations
- § 7216 — Violations of contract
- § 7217 — Transfer or change of interest in lands subject to contract
- § 7218 — Planting flexibility
- § 7231 — Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans
- § 7232 — Loan rates for marketing assistance loans
- § 7233 — Term of loans
- § 7234 — Repayment of loans
- § 7235 — Loan deficiency payments
- § 7236 — Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton
- § 7236a — Special competitive provisions for extra long staple cotton
- § 7237 — Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed cotton and other fibers
- § 724 — Omitted
- § 725 — Repealed. Feb. 10, 1936, ch. 42 , 49 Stat. 1106
- § 7251 — Milk price support program
- § 7252 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–76, title VII, § 772(b) , Nov. 28, 2001 , 115 Stat. 745
- § 7253 — Consolidation and reform of Federal milk marketing orders
- § 7254 — Effect on fluid milk standards in State of California
- § 7255 — Milk manufacturing marketing adjustment
- § 7256 — Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact
- § 7257 — Authority to assist in establishment and maintenance of one or more export trading companies
- § 7258 — Standby authority to indicate entity best suited to provide international market development and export services
- § 7259 — Study and report regarding potential impact of Uruguay Round on prices, income, and government purchases
- § 726 — Omitted
- § 7271 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1310(a)(1) , May 13, 2002 , 116 Stat. 182
- § 7272 — Sugar program
- § 7281 — Administration
- § 7282 — Adjustments of loans
- § 7283 — Commodity Credit Corporation interest rate
- § 7284 — Personal liability of producers for deficiencies
- § 7285 — Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions
- § 7286 — Commodity certificates
- § 7287 — Commodity Credit Corporation storage payments