A bill to provide parity to farmers and to prevent interruptions in the supply of food to American consumers.
Emergency Farm Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish price supports for cattle and for each of the 1977 through 1981 crops of feed grains, cotton, peanuts, rice, tobacco, wheat, soybeans, sugar, wool, mohair, milk and honey at 100 percent of parity, unless a majority of the producers of any such commodity, in a referendum, vote to exempt such commodity from such support price.
Directs the Secretary to suspend all foreign meat imports into the United States until such time as domestic cattle prices are brought to the 100 percent level.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
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