7 U.S.C. § 1447
Section 1447 · Price support levels for other nonbasic agricultural commodities
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case United States v. Frame (1989)
Most recently applied in Howard Schleider v. GVDB Operations, LLC (October 2024)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Secretary is authorized to make available through loans, purchases, or other operations price support to producers for any nonbasic agricultural commodity not designated in sections 1446, 1446a, and 1446d of this title at a level not in excess of 90 per centum of the parity price for the commodity.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1977—Pub. L. 95–113 temporarily inserted provisions authorizing Secretary to make price support available for the 1978 through 1981 crops of flaxseed, dry edible beans, gum naval stores, and, in the case of the 1979 through 1981 crops, sugar beets and sugar cane, and for other nonbasic undesignated commodities. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1977 Amendment note below.
Effective and Termination Dates of 1977 Amendment
Section 1003(a) of Pub. L. 95–113 provided that the amendment made by that section is effective only with respect to 1978 through 1981 crops.
Elimination of Wool and Mohair Programs
Pub. L. 103–130, §3(c), Nov. 1, 1993, 107 Stat. 1369, provided that: “Effective beginning December 31, 1995, the Secretary of Agriculture may not provide loans or payments for wool or mohair by using the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation or under the authority of any law.”
Other Price Support Programs in Effect on September 29, 1977
Section 1003(b) of Pub. L. 95–113 provided that: “The amendment made by this section [amending this section] to the Agricultural Act of 1949 shall not be operative in any manner with respect to any price support program in effect on the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 29, 1977].”