7 USC § 1422 - Increase of price support levels

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s1422"
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title: "7 USC § 1422 - Increase of price support levels"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "1422"
section_name: "Increase of price support levels"
chapter_number: 35
chapter_name: "PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title IV, § 402, 63 Stat. 1054; Pub. L. 101–624, title XI, § 1127, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3508.)"
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# § 1422. Increase of price support levels

**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, price support at a level in excess of the maximum level of price support otherwise prescribed in this Act may be made available for any agricultural commodity if the Secretary determines, after a public hearing of which reasonable notice has been given, that price support at such increased level is necessary in order to prevent or alleviate a shortage in the supply of any agricultural commodity essential to the national welfare or in order to increase or maintain the production of any agricultural commodity in the interest of national security. The Secretary’s determination and the record of the hearing shall be available to the public.

**(b)** Effective only for the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice, the Secretary of Agriculture may provide for annual adjustments in the established prices for such program crops to reflect any change during the last calendar year ending before the beginning of each such crop year in the index of prices paid by farmers for production items, interest, taxes, and wage rates in such calendar year.

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**Source Credit**: (Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title IV, § 402, 63 Stat. 1054; Pub. L. 101–624, title XI, § 1127, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3508.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is , , known as the Agricultural Act of 1949, which is classified principally to this chapter (§ 1421 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

### Amendments

1990— designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1990 Amendment

Amendment by  effective beginning with 1991 crop of an agricultural commodity, with provision for prior crops, see , set out as a note under .

### Inapplicability of Section

Section inapplicable to 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 2008 through 2012 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 2002 through 2007 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , and ending , see .

## Executive Documents

### Exceptions From Transfer of Functions

Functions of Corporations of Department of Agriculture, boards of directors and officers of such corporations; Advisory Board of Commodity Credit Corporation; and Farm Credit Administration or any agency, officer, or entity of, under, or subject to supervision of said Administration excepted from functions of officers, agencies, and employees transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, effective , 18 F.R. 3219, , set out as a note under .