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. The The burley tobacco control programs and the legislation and
E0 UIC policies shaping them are important to nearly every Kentucky
km Of 9 farmer. This circular contains summaries of the legislation and
. giioll policies, and brief descriptions of how the programs were set up
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gThiS and operated each year since 1933. It also contains references
Quiet`. to the laws so that anyone who desires to do so may Find and
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This study them. Two other publications, Kentucky Agricultural
Of nu- ; Experiment Station Bulletins 580 and 590, contain more detailed
information on the programs. Those who desire a more com-
plete account 1na have these bulletins b asking for them at their
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Circulor 509
T Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture ond Home Economics
College of Agriculture and Home Economics, University of Kentucky
and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating
 9 FRANK J. WELCH, Director y
20\i~6-ii n Issued in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, I914. ‘

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Pub. Law 10-73rd Congress—Agricultural Adjustment Act (ol
1933) dehned the "fair exchange value" (later called parity price) fg
of burley as that price which would give burley the same pur A to
j chasing power it had in the period August 1919—_]u1y 1929. To av
A bacco was defined as a "basic" commodity. Provision was also A tit
made lor adjustment of supply to demand by means of   acrc- co
age and poundage allotments, and (2) marketing orders and eq
( .agreements. Burley handlers could be licensed under the 1935 pc
, AAA. Provision was also made for rental and beneht payments to
for reducing production of surplus, soil-depleting commoditio le:
(including burley) , as a means of insuring compliance with acrt~ co
1 age allotments. to
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  Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act (ol 1933), the polio in
ol the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, with respect to lo
burley, included: (1) control ol 1933 price through marketing
{ (agreements, as the act was passed too late to permit application Af
° ol: acreage restrictions in 1933; (2) preparation 1`or adoption til
‘ g acreage allotments in 1934 including apportionment ol: base acre Ul
  ages among producers on the basis o1’ historical production rtt _ l><
( ords, and administration o1’ the program through state. count)- 91
( and community tobacco committees; (3) payment 1`or reduction 21*
1 o1` burley acreage. P1
l The state, county, and community tobacco committees sci till
to administer the tobacco program were assigned the 1’o1lo\ri11Q 111
1`unctions: (1) base apportionment, (2) perforniance cliecl1loiring . tucky base was set at 308,137 acres. The base was apportioned
heckiiig. V to individual farms by the local committees. Farmers were given
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Pub. Law 461-74th Congress—Soi1 Conservation and Domes-
tic Allotment Act—enacted on February 29 to supplement the
remainder of the AAA (of 1933) , authorized payments to farmers
TCO Au for soil-conservation practices and adjustment of acreages of soil-
nd C"` V depleting crops, including tobacco. These provisions became the
I favm  j basis for burley acreage allotments.
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ild not l Administrative Policy, Practice, and Operation
to cor- Benefit (adjustment) payments, except for those provided for
d acre- in Pub. Law 440, ended with the Supreme Court decision.
acrease U.S. Department of Agriculture policy became one of attempt-
1 1,500 ing to adjust tobacco production with allotted acreages, under the
eceipts Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act with conservation
xports. payments as an inducement to cooperation.
nd (cl The national burley base acreage was set at 520,564 acres and
rodutts the Kentucky base acreage was set at 367,994 acres. Farmers were
permitted to harvest up to 70 percent of their base acreages with-
_ out losing their conservation payments. U.S. farmers harvested
. 302,500 acres and Kentucky farmers harvested 225,000 acres.
96 per-
M 35% 1937
IC Ken- Legislation j j
med W  Pub. Law 137-75th Congress—The Agricultural Marketing
Lrvcsml g Agreement Act of l937—reenacted those sections of the 1933 AAA
S. MM dealing with marketing agreements and not intended for the con-
Of [hc trol of production.
lH¤U¥l"" Administrative Policy, Practice, and Operation
Policies originated under the Soil Conservation and Domestic
Allotment Act of 1936 were continued.
The national burley base acreage was set at 523,914 acres and
- the Kentucky base was set at 370,865 acres. Farmers were per-
mitted to plant 75 percent of their base acreages. U.S. farmers
tions wl  P llHl`V€St€Cl 443,000 acres compared with 302,500 in 1936. Ken-
igtaxo. g tucky farmers harvested 309,000 acres in 1937 compared with
ii;iry lll- 225990 in 1936 with the base acreage virtually unchanged. The
>l remzil ~U.S. season average price of burley fell from 35.7 to 20.1 cents
Olmiitis PW pound and 182 million extra pounds of tobacco added only a
. little more than two million dollars to the gross income ol? bur-
ley producers. .
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I Pub. Law 430-75th Congress—The Agricultural Adjustment
Act of l938——defined tobacco marketing, parity price, marketing p
year, normal supply, normal year’s domestic consumption, normal q
A l year”s exports, and reserve supply level. The reserve supply level s
l of tobacco, including burley, was defined as normal supply plus t A
5 percent thereof. Normal supply was defined as a normal years ,
disappearance plus 175 percent of a normal year’s domestic cou- ft
. sumption and 65 percent of a normal year’s exports. Each normal a<
( was defined as the actual average for the preceding ten years atl- D
l justed for current trends. Total supply for any marketing year ft
l was defined as carry-in plus estimated U.S. production for the A
calendar year in which the marketing year begins. The parity p
l price for tobacco was defined as in the l933 AAA. The Secretan tl
, l was directed to give due regard to maintaining adequate supplio p
l at prices fair to both consumers and producers. Marketing quotzu ,
i on a poundage basis were provided for when   total supply 1`<
exceeded the reserve supply level, and (2) two-thirds ol tht li
/)'}'()(fll(.`(f7`S (not necessarily persons controlling 2%; of the tobau‘·»
’ acreage) favored quotas. The national marketing quota fur  
» . any marketing year was dehned as that quantity which woultl €¢
  make available, during such current marketing year, a suppll I tl
equal to the reserve supply level. The Secretary was authorixctl H
( to make parity payments (to extent of available appropriationsl ll
i to make up the difference between the actual and parity prit‘<‘>» il'
l Provisions for enforcement of farm marketing quotas inclutlcll