**(a) Short title** This chapter may be cited as the “Agricultural Market Transition Act”.
**(b) Purpose** It is the purpose of this chapter—
(1) to authorize the use of binding production flexibility contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection requirements;
(2) to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available for certain crops;
(3) to improve the operation of farm programs for milk, peanuts, and sugar; and
(4) to establish a commission to undertake a comprehensive review of past and future production agriculture in the United States.
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**(a) Short title** This chapter may be cited as the “Agricultural Market Transition Act”.
**(b) Purpose** It is the purpose of this chapter—
(1) to authorize the use of binding production flexibility contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection requirements;
(2) to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available for certain crops;
(3) to improve the operation of farm programs for milk, peanuts, and sugar; and
(4) to establish a commission to undertake a comprehensive review of past and future production agriculture in the United States.
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§ 7201. Short title and purpose
(a) Short title
This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘Agricul-
tural Market Transition Act’’.
(b) Purpose
It is the purpose of this chapter—
(1) to authorize the use of binding produc-
tion flexibility contracts between the United
States and agricultural producers to support
farming certainty and flexibility while ensur-
ing continued compliance with farm conserva-
tion and wetland protection requirements;
(2) to make nonrecourse marketing assist-
ance loans and loan deficiency payments
available for certain crops;
(3) to improve the operation of farm pro-
grams for milk, peanuts, and sugar; and
(4) to establish a commission to undertake a
comprehensive review of past and future pro-
duction agriculture in the United States.
(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 101, Apr. 4, 1996, 110
Stat. 896.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original
‘‘this title’’, meaning title I of Pub. L. 104–127, Apr. 4,
1996, 110 Stat. 896, which enacted this chapter and sec-
tion 6933 of this title, amended sections 1308, 1308–1,
1308–3, 1358–1, 1358b, 1358c, 1359a, 1373, 1441, 1445j, 1508,
1516, 4504, 6401, 6402, 6413, 6414, and 6932 of this title and
sections 713a–14, 714b, 714i, and 714k of Title 15, Com-
merce and Trade, repealed sections 1426, 1433f, 1441–2,
1444–2, 1444f, 1445b–3a, 1445c–3, 1445h, 1446e to 1446h, and
1519 of this title, enacted provisions set out as notes
under sections 1373, 1446e, 1446e–1, and 1508 of this title,
and repealed provisions set out as a note under section
1421 of this title. For complete classification of title I
to the Code, see Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SHORT TITLE OF 1998 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 105–228, § 1, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1516,