Market expansion and surplus disposition
section 590g(a) of this titleWhenever the Secretary finds that the exercise of the powers conferred in this section will tend to carry out the purpose specified in clause (5) of , or will tend to provide for and maintain a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair to both producers and consumers, or both, he shall use such part as he deems necessary of the sums appropriated to carry out this chapter for the expansion of domestic and foreign markets or for seeking new or additional markets for agricultural commodities or the products thereof or for the removal or disposition of surpluses of such commodities or the products thereof.
Advances for premiums
section 590h of this titleThe Secretary is authorized to make advances to producers for the purpose of assisting them to insure their crops with the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The Secretary shall remit the amount of any such advances to a producer directly to such Corporation in payment of the premium on the insurance for which the producer has made application. Advances shall only be made to producers who are participating or who agree to participate in a program formulated pursuant to . Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the terms and conditions of such advances shall be fixed by the Secretary. In carrying out the provisions of this subsection, the Secretary may transfer to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, prior to the execution of applications for insurance or requests for advances by producers, the funds estimated as necessary to cover the advances which will be requested for the payment of premiums under a crop-insurance program, and any portion of such funds not used for advances to producers under such program shall be returned to the Secretary by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.
Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 12Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 149 Stat. 1151Mar. 25, 1939, ch. 1553 Stat. 550July 2, 1940, ch. 521, § 154 Stat. 727(, as added , ; amended , ; , .)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1940—Subsec. (b). Act , inserted last sentence.
1939—Act , designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
60 Stat. 1100Administration of program of Federal Crop Insurance Corporation transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 501, eff. , 11 F.R. 7877, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation consolidated with other agencies into Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration for duration of World War II, see Ex. Ord. No. 9069, .
section 590a of this titleFunctions respecting lands under jurisdiction of Department of the Interior, see Transfer of Functions note set out under .