Agriculture and Food Act of 1981

(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 97-377) Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act as amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to provide for milk producer initiated marketing order amendment hearings. Extends through 1985: (1) dairy base plan authority; (2) the program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals; and (3) the dairy indemnity program. Sets milk price supports per hundredweight for fiscal years 1982-1985 at $13.10, $13.25, $14.00, and $14.60, respectively. Establishes price supports for fiscal years 1983-1985 at between 70-75 percent of parity. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to reduce inventories of Commodity Credit Corporation dairy products to reduce outlays to the level used for budgetary purposes under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Directs the Secretary to report to the House and Senate agriculture committees by December 31, 1982, regarding regional food security aspects of the dairy support program and milk marketing orders. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Revises the support level from 85 to 77.5 percent of the formula rate. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 wheat crops at not less than $3.55 per bushel. Stipulates that the Secretary may adjust levels downward by up to ten percent (but not less than $3.00 per bushel) whenever the yearly price for the previous year is not more than 105 percent of the current loan and purchase level. Requires the Secretary to provide producers with the same return they would have received if such loan reductions occur. Sets minimum target prices for each of these years at $4.05, $4.30, $4.45, and $4.65, respectively. Permits the Secretary to increase prices to reflect increased production costs. Makes prevented planting and disaster payments available for such crop years for producers for whom Federal crop insurance is not available. Authorizes the Secretary to make disaster payments to any wheat producer whose losses can not be alleviated by other assistance and crop insurance programs. Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage for each of the 1982-1985 wheat crops by not later than August 15 of each year. Sets forth national and individual acreage allocation formulas. Authorizes the Secretary to revise them as necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for either an acreage limitation program or a set-aside program. Provides with regard to the acreage limitation program: (1) for conservation use of unused acreage; (2) that producers who knowingly produce in excess of their limit shall be ineligible for program loans, purchases, and payments; (3) that the Secretary shall announce the program by August 15; and (4) that limitations shall be based on a uniform reduction of planted wheat acreage. Provides with regard to the set-aside program: (1) for conservation use of set-aside acreage as an eligibility requirement for price support assistance; (2) that the Secretary shall announce the program by August 15; (3) that the Secretary may limit wheat acreage if a set-aside program is in effect; and (4) that such acreage may be planted for grazing. Requires the Secretary to consider the effects of soil erosion where summer fallow practices are in effect in determining how much acreage to be idled under these programs. Authorizes land diversion payments for the 1982-1985 wheat crops and payments for wildlife food plots and habitats. Authorizes the Secretary to permit State or county committees to waive or modify certain agreement deadlines. Exempts the 1982-1985 wheat crops from: (1) wheat processor and exporter certificate requirements; (2) marketing quota and producer certificate requirements; (3) quota provisions; and (4) price support provisions. Title IV: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 corn crops at not less than $2.55 per bushel. Stipulates that such levels may be adjusted downward by up to ten percent (but not less than $2.00 per bushel) if the yearly price for the previous year is not more than 105 percent of the current loan and purchase level. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 grain sorghum, barley, oats, and rye crops at a level based on the loan level for corn. Sets minimum 1982-1985 corn target prices at $2.70, $2.86, $3.03, and $3.18, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to increase prices to reflect increased production costs. Bases target prices for the other feed grains on parallel corn prices. Makes disaster payments available under the same conditions as apply to wheat. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for either an acreage limitation program and a set-aside program. Requires the Secretary to announce such programs by November 15. Permits the Secretary to exclude malting barley from any overall barley acreage reduction. Authorizes land diversion payments for the 1982-1985 feed grain crops and payments for wildlife food plots and habitats. Authorizes the Secretary to permit State or county committees to waive or modify certain agreement deadlines. Title V: Cotton - Sets minimum target prices for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops at $.71, $.76, $.81, and $.86, respectively, plus any adjustments for production costs, 120 percent of the loan level. Provides for deficiency payments to producers for 1982-1985 if the average market price is less than the established price. Sets forth payment formulas. Makes disaster payments and acreage limitations available under the same conditions as apply to wheat. Authorizes land diversion payments for the 1982-1985 cotton crops and payments for wildlife food plots and habitats. Suspends marketing quotas, base acreage allotments, and related provisions for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops. Extends skiprow provisions through 1985. Bases the preliminary allotment for the 1986 crop on the permanent (as adjusted) 1977 acreage allotment. Decreases the loan level for the 1982-1985 crops of extra long staple cotton to between 75-125 percent in excess of the loan level for Strict Low Middling one and one-sixteenth inch upland cotton. Makes such level available when marketing quotas have not been disapproved. Title VI: Rice - Repeals acreage allotment and marketing quota programs for rice. Establishes minimum per hundredweight target prices for the 1982-1985 rice crops at $10.85, $11.40, $11.90, and $12.40, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to raise prices to reflect increased production costs. Authorizes acreage limitations and disaster payments for 1982-1985 in the same manner as for wheat. Computes disaster payments on 75 percent of the farm program yield times one-third of the target price. Sets forth farm yield computation provisions. Authorizes land diversion programs for the 1982-1985 crops and payments for wildlife food plots and habitats. Requires the Secretary to report by July 31, 1981, to the Congress on rice futures trading, including the feasibility of using the average seasonal price received by farmers as a basis for computing loan and target prices. Title VII: Peanuts - Suspends marketing quotas and acreage allotments for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Sets the minimum national poundage quotas for 1982-1985 at 1,200,000 tons, 1,167,300 tons, 1,134,700 tons, and 1,100,000 tons, respectively. Provides that such reductions shall be achieved to the maximum extent possible from nonpeanut producing acreage. Bases national poundage apportionment among the States on the basis of 1981 allocations. Sets forth formulas for farm yields and farm poundage quotas. Permits undermarketings to be carried forward to subsequent years. Stipulates that these poundage carryovers shall not be counted against the national poundage quota. Requires the Secretary to conduct an annual four-year poundage quota referendum (by December 15) of farmers producing quota peanuts. Provides that if: (1) two-thirds favor quotas no referendum shall be held for the next three years; and (2) one-third oppose quotas no quota will be in effect for the following year. Permits sale, lease, or transfer of farm poundage quotas. Places specified limitations on such transactions. Makes the penalty for excess "quota" and "additional" peanut marketing 140 percent of the support price for such peanuts. Directs the Secretary to permit county committees to waive marketing penalties of minor weight violations. Requires that domestic edible peanut acreage be planted from quota peanuts. Subjects handlers to a penalty of 120 percent of the loan level for excess domestic quota marketing. Gives sole authority to the designated area marketing associations for selling additional peanuts under loan when such peanuts are sold at prices not less than the Commodity Credit Corporation's minimum price. Permits quota and additional peanuts of like type to be mixed and exchanged on a dollar value basis to facilitate handling. Authorizes additional peanut contracts for crushing and export. Requires such contracts to be submitted to the Secretary before April 15. Permits such peanuts to be used as quota peanuts in specified situations. Permits Commodity Credit Corporation peanuts to be sold for domestic edible use at prices at least equal to costs plus 100-107 percent of the loan value of quota peanuts. Provides with regard to the 1982-1985 peanut crops: (1) that the minimum support rate for 1982 will be $.275 per pound; (2) that the support rate for the 1983-1985 crops will be the previous year's rate adjusted for production cost increases; (3) any increases will be limited to six percent; and (4) that additional peanuts shall be supported on the same basis whether produced by new or old producers. Directs the Secretary to make warehouse storage loans available to designated area marketing associations (except to specified cooperatives) and to use such associations in related supervisory and administrative activities. Extends producer reporting and recordkeeping requirements through 1985. Requires area marketing associations to maintain information and establish pools for loan peanuts. Suspends specified price support provisions for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Title VIII: Soybeans - Establishes a price support loan and purchase program for the 1982-1985 soybean crops. Bases such level on 75 percent of the average Chicago cash price for number one yellow soybeans for the five market years preceding the current year. Sets a minimum support price of $5.02 per bushel. Authorizes the Secretary to lower such level ten percent each year (but not below $4.50 per bushel) if the previous year's average market price was not in excess of 105 percent of the loan rate for that year. States that soybeans are ineligible for the producer storage reserve program and the production adjustment control program. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring production adjustment participation as a condition for price support eligibility. Title IX: Sugar - Establishes a price support program for the 1982-1985 sugar beet and sugar cane crops. Sets the support level for the period ending March 31, 1982, to approximate a raw sugar price of $.1675 per pound. Requires the Secretary, as of October 1, 1982, to support sugar prices through 1985 as follows: (1) for sugar cane, $.17, $.175, $.1775, and $.18; and (2) for sugar beets, at a level in relation to the support level for raw sugar cane. Title X: Grain Reserves and National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board - Subtitle A: Grain Reserves - Directs the Secretary to carry out the producer storage program for wheat and feed grains. Prohibits: (1) loans to be made at less than current wheat and feed grain support levels; or (2) interest to be less than the Commodity Credit Corporation's interest rate. Authorizes the Secretary to increase such rate as necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to require early repayment in emergency cases, after first notifying the House and Senate agricultural committees. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for redemption and marketing of stored stocks without regard to loan maturity dates whenever the Secretary determines the market price has reached specified levels. Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling wheat or feed grains at less than 110 percent of the current price level. Replaces the existing wheat reserve requirement with one authorizing the Secretary to place upper limits of at least 700,000,000 bushels for wheat and 1,000,000,000 bushels for feed grains. Prohibits Commodity Credit Corporation wheat and feed grain stocks from being sold at less than 110 percent of the current release level when the producer storage program is in effect. Exempts emergency feed program, disaster reserve, and corn (for use as alcohol fuel) sales from such prohibition. Authorizes the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county committee to forgive penalties against a producer who samples, moves, or replaces a commodity held as security for a Commodity Credit Corporation loan or under a producer reserve program. Permits the Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service or the State committee to disapprove such action within 60 days. Makes the disaster reserve program discretionary. Subtitle B: National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board - Establishes the National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board. Requires the Board to report annually to the Secretary and the House and Senate agriculture committees. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Terminates the Board as of September 30, 1985. Title XI: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Extends annual payment limitations for wheat, feed grains, rice, and upland cotton through 1985. Prohibits payments to State lands as long as such lands are formed in furtherance of a public function. Makes the Secretary's determination final regarding payments, loans, or other activity under the wheat, rice, feed grain, or upland cotton programs. Authorizes the Secretary for the 1982-1985 wheat and feed grain crops to: (1) provide for a cropland set-aside if an embargo is placed on such commodities; and (2) require whenever a set-aside program is in effect as a condition of eligibility for loans, purchases, and payments under the Agricultural Act of 1949 that producers not exceed acreage normally planted to crops designated by the Secretary and reduced by any set-aside or diverted acreage. Revises tobacco quota provisions to exempt: (1) Maryland (type 32) tobacco when it is nonquota tobacco and produced in a quota area of a farm for which a marketing quota was first in effect; and (2) certain cigar tobaccos that have never been under quota but are in a State where quotas are in effect. Expresses the intent of Congress that the tobacco program be administered in a way that results in no net cost to the public, other than incidental administrative costs. Directs the Secretary by January 1982 to promulgate regulations to effect this, and to recommend legislative action to the Congress. Subtitle B: General Provisions - Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1985. Makes the emergency feed program discretionary. Extends coverage to poultry producers. Directs: (1) the Secretary to appoint a special task force to study the concept of farm income protection insurance; (2) such task force to report to the Senate and House agriculture committees within 18 months of enactment of this Act; and (3) such task force to be dissolved 45 days after submitting such report. Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to authorize State agencies to perform official inspections at export port locations under specified circumstances. Requires free distribution of surplus commodities not likely to be sold by the Commodity Credit Corporation (or used in other commodity distributions) to nutritional programs for children, the elderly, and the needy. Revises the report date. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Revises title XVIII of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 relating to Department of Agriculture advisory committees. Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, to increase license fee ceilings and the damage threshhold entitling a respondent to an oral hearing. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to revise the factors to be included in the Secretary's annual cost of production study. Amends the Federal Seed Act to make it unlawful to advertise or offer for sale by variety name protected seed (certified under the Plant Variety Protection Act) not certified by a State agency. Amends the Federal Plant Pest Act to authorize the Secretary to take remedial action whenever an extraordinary emergency exists. Requires that such action be consistent with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Governor of the affected State and make a public announcement and file with the Federal Register before taking remedial action. Requires that related costs be at the expense of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to pay compensation. Amends the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the release of bee germ plasm to the public. Authorizes the Secretary to charge user fees for reports and publications. Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to subject imported meat and meat products capable of use as human food to the same inspections and standards that apply to domestic products. Prohibits the importation of foreign products that do not meet these standards. Directs the Secretary to enforce those provisions by random inspections and samplings at foreign locations. Title XII: Agricultural Exports and Public Law 480 - Subtitle A: General Export Provisions - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to establish in the U.S. Treasury an Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to make loans to foreign purchasers of U.S. agricultural commodities and breeding animals and for loans for related overseas facilities construction acquisition. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports (beginning not later than December 1, 1982) to Congress. Dissolves such Fund effective October 1, 1985. Requires funds to be used for expansion as well as market development. Encourages the President to consult with the appropriate congressional committees before entering into bilateral commodity supply agreements. Directs the Secretary to formulate a special export subsidy program to neutralize the effects of foreign subsidies in non-U.S. markets. Sets forth the determinations which the President must make before the Secretary may act. Prohibits any such program for cotton. Requires the Secretary to make compensatory loans or payments to farmers affected by a national security or foreign policy agriculture embargo if: (1) the embargo does not block all exports to the other countries; and (2) such country imported more than three percent of all such agricultural commodities exported the year before. Sets forth payment amounts. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of foreign trade policies and practices as they affect U.S. agricultural exports; and (2) report to the Congress within 180 days. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan to deal with the adverse impact of suspension on export sales. Requires: (1) the plan to assess existing farm programs, evaluate available information, and develop criteria to determine necessary protective offsets; (2) the Secretary to report to the Congress; and (3) the Commodity Credit Corporation to justify any contract purchases. Encourages the Secretary, in coordination with appropriate Federal agencies, to continue consultations on grain marketing with other major grain exporting nations. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should consult with Japanese officials to develop standards for export certification of lettuce and other commodities to Japan. Expresses a finding of Congress concerning the increased food use of protein byproducts derived from alcohol fuel production. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress within 12 months. Exempts protein byproducts of agriculturally-based alcohol fuel production from specified Commodity Credit Corporation requirements. Subtitle B: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to extend through 1985 the President's authority to make agricultural sales under tile I of such Act and provide commodity assistance under title II of such Act. Deletes annual appropriation ceilings under title I and increases such ceiling to $1,000,000,000 under title II. Increases from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the annual foreign currency limit for emergency nonfood relief. Adds specified self-help requirements under title I eligibility. Repeals Commodity Credit Corporation ocean freight provisions. Repeals the provision limiting the amount of title I agreements. Makes distilled spirits eligible for the market development program in the same manner as beer and wine. Changes the annual reporting date to Congress from April 1 to July 1. Limits spending authority to amounts appropriated. Title XIII: Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize up to $11,300,000,000 for fiscal year 1982. Includes within the definition of "reservation" any land over which a tribal organization exercises any governmental jurisdiction. Authorizes a food distribution program in Oklahoma for eligible Indian and other households. Establishes a separate thrifty food plan for Alaska's rural areas. Provides for an annual October adjustment of the thrifty food plan beginning with October 1, 1982. Subjects the adjustment periods to congressional revision. Excludes from food stamp income any income that Federal law specifically excludes from consideration as income for such purpose, including energy assistance payments. Excludes from food stamp income State or local energy assistance payments that are calculated on a seasonal basis. Prohibits the deduction of third party expenses from household income computation. Attributes a portion of the income of a legally admitted alien's sponsor to that alien for three years after entry. Revises work requirements to: (1) include recipient households within the 60-day applicant disqualification for households where a wage earner has quit his or her job without good cause; (2) disqualify food stamp households if a member has not met comparable work requirements of another Federal program; (3) exempt household members with young children from specified work registration requirements; and (4) require work registration annually rather than every six months. Makes States strictly liable for losses occuring in the handling and issuing of food stamps. Eliminates the 60-day transfer of benefits for a household moving to another jurisdiction. Eliminates the 30-day requirement for notice to reapply. Provides that the Comptroller General shall have audit access to applicant and recipient records and records for retail and wholesale food businesses. Requires a household to request that improperly denied benefits be restored before they may be restored. Provides that benefits found judicially to have been wrongfully withheld shall be restored only for periods of not more than one year before such legal action began. Requires State agencies to Social Security and unemployment wage data to verify recipients' earnings. Revises nutrition education provisions. Permits Alaska to use non-State employees to administer the food stamp program in rural areas. Eliminates the requirement that the Secretary establish State staffing requirements. Increases the requirements States must meet to receive additional Federal funds for administrative costs. Requires recipient households to furnish the Social Security numbers of all household members. Extends cash-out pilot programs through fiscal year 1985. Permits States to limit this extension to specified projects. Expands the scope of such cash programs. Provides for nutritional monitoring of low-income people. Requires annual reports to the House and Senate agricultural committees beginning in July 1982. Authorizes two State and 14 local pilot projects to simplify application processing for certain AFDC, SSI, and Medicaid recipients. Authorizes food stamp appropriations for fiscal year 1982. Permits local governments to operate workfare programs. Revises accounting provisions relating to licensed vehicles. Provides for law enforcement access to food stamp information. Provides for minimum court sentencing for violations of such Act. Requires reporting of abuses through retail store notices. Authorizes two-year authority for pilot projects using the commodity supplemental food program for low-income elderly people. Extends through fiscal year 1985 commodity supplemental food programs for pregnant women, new mothers, and children. Permits retailers to redeem food stamps in savings and loan institutions. Authorizes certain employees of the Office of the Inspector General to conduct specified law enforcement functions. Permits disabled parents living with their children to apply as separate households. Title XIV: National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1981 - National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to revise the congressional findings and purposes of such Act to give greater emphasis to the role of State agricultural extension services in research and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. Extends the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences to September 30, 1985. Increases membership to at least 25 persons, to be appointed in staggered three-year terms. Requires: (1) an annual report on priorities to be submitted to the Congress by June 30 of each year; (2) an annual research and teaching report to be submitted to the Congress by November 30 of each year; and (3) a five year plan to be submitted to the Congress by June 30, 1983. Extends the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board to September 30, 1985. Increases membership from 21 to 25 persons. Establishes staggered terms for such members. Changes the due date of the Board's: (1) annual recommendations to the Secretary from October 31 to July 1; and (2) appraisal of the President's budget from March 1 to February 20. Emphasizes the role of State cooperative institutions in providing regional planning and cooperation. Changes the date of the Secretary's annual agricultural research report from February 1 to January 1. Requires the Subcommittee on Food, Agricultural and Forestry Research, the Joint Council, and the Advisory Board to conduct joint meetings and coordinate activities. Creates an additional Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs. States that the Department of Agriculture should establish working relationships with foreign information and data systems. Revises specified notification responsibilities of the National Agricultural Library's Food and Nutrition Information and Education Resources Center. Authorizes appropriations for competitive research grants through fiscal year 1985. Makes land grant college research foundations and veterinary colleges eligible for special grants. Amends the Research Facilities Act of 1963 to extend authorizations of appropriations through fiscal year 1985. Eliminates the fund apportionment requirement for veterinary schools. Changes the emphasis of facilities grants from purchasing equipment, land, and supplies to renovating existing buildings and limited new construction. Makes forestry schools and 1980 land grant colleges eligible for such grants. Authorizes specified appropriations for research facilities grants for fiscal year 1982-1985. Revises guidelines for higher education food and agricultural sciences grants. Transfers functions of the Secretary of Education under the Bankhead-Jones Act and the Morrill Act to the Secretary. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985. Changes the title of the award authorized in section 1418 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to the National Agricultural Science Award. Extends the authorization of appropriations for alcohol and industrial hydrocarbon research grants through fiscal year 1985. Increases the maximum amounts awardable to institutions in any one State. Limits total awards to $40,000,000. Establishes an allocation formula for distributing funds under the nutrition education program. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services to formulate a report on human nutrition research and information management. Extends the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board to September 30, 1985. Limits animal health and research funding to State agricultural experiment stations and accredited veterinary schools. Requires the Secretary to establish priority lists of animal health problems and award grants on the basis of these priorities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982-1985. Provides that for fiscal year 1982 annual extension appropriations at 1890 land grant colleges (including Tuskegee Institute) shall not be less than five and one-half percent of the total annual appropriation under the Smith-Lever Act. Increases such amount to six percent for subsequent years. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982-1985 for agricultural research at such colleges. Permits funds to be used for travel by non-Federal scientists to research meetings. Establishes a dairy goat research program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985 to upgrade research facilities at these institutions. Authorizes appropriations for solar model farms and demonstration projects through fiscal year 1985. Directs the Secretary to utilize institutions of higher education to develop linkages among such institutions, the Federal Government, and international research centers to improve worldwide food and agricultural progress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance (on a reimbursable basis) to U.S. institutions so involved. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985 for agricultural research and extension programs. Provides that funds made available by the Secretary under specified Acts shall not be subject to reduction for indirect costs incurred by the recipient. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish an aquaculture research and extension program; (2) make grants to colleges and universities, federal laboratories, and experiment stations; and (3) assist States (up to $50,000) in formulating aquaculture development plans. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to the President and to the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture and Appropriations; and (2) establish an Aquaculture Advisory Board whose term shall end September 30, 1985. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish a rangeland research program on a matching grant basis; and (2) make grants to colleges and universities, Federal laboratories, and experiment stations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to the President and the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture and Appropriations; and (2) establish a Rangeland Advisory Board whose term shall end September 30, 1985. Authorizes appropriations not to exceed $10,000,000 annually for fiscal year 1982-1985. Amends the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 to direct the Secretary to appoint an advisory forestry council. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to furnish excess Federal property to State or county extension services, 1890 land grant colleges, and State experiment stations. Amends title V of the Rural Development Act of 1972 to revise and extend the rural development and small farm research and extension programs. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Soybean Research Advisory Institute. Requires the Institute to report to the House and Senate agriculture committees by March 1, 1983. Vests sole administrative jurisdiction with the Secretary over lands on which the United States Sheep Experiment Station (Idaho) and the Summer Range (Montana) are located. Title XV: Resources Conservation - Subtitle A: Soil and Water Conservation - Reaffirms Congress' policy to improve and protect soil and water resources and promote conservation. Subtitle B: Special Areas Conservation Program - Requires the Secretary to establish a Special Areas Conservation Program to identify and correct severe erosion or water management problems. Provides technical and financial assistance on a cost-sharing basis to aid operators and landowners in carrying out conservation measures (as set forth in approved conservation plans in designated areas). Terminates special area designation authority as of September 30, 1991. Requires congressional approval of such designations. States that participants would not be disqualified from receiving benefits under other Department of Agriculture programs. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress every five years beginning no later than January 1, 1986. Subtitle C: Amendments to the Small Watershed Program and the Bankhead - Jones Farm Tenant Act - Permits Indian tribes and organizations to sponsor small watershed projects. Exempts watershed projects that involve less than $5,000,000 (presently $1,000,000) in Federal funds from congressional approval. Authorizes the Secretary to share up to 50 percent of the cost of acquiring land and rights-of-way by local organizations for fish and wildlife losses. Adds energy conservation as an element that may be included in Federal small watershed project agreements. Amends the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to permit energy resources development in connection with conservation projects eligible for cost sharing. Subtitle D: Matching Grants for Conservation Activities - Directs the Secretary to establish a matching grant program with local governmental units through State soil conservation agencies. Requires local participants to: (1) have a long-range program in effect; (2) have an annual work plan consistent with such program in effect; and (3) have matching fund sources available. Authorizes necessary appropriations through fiscal year 1991. Requires the Secretary to report to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees by January 1, 1986, and again by January 1, 1991. States that such grants shall be made to augment rather than replace other Department of Agriculture technical and financial assistance. Subtitle E: Conservation Loan Program - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to direct the Corporation, beginning with fiscal year 1982, to make loans for natural resource conservation and environmental enhancement measures recommended by specified county and State conservation committees as part of an overall local plan. Provides with regard to such loans that: (1) loan duration shall not exceed ten years, with interest rates based upon interest charged to the Corporation by the Treasury; (2) annual loans to an individual shall not exceed $25,000; and (3) loans over $10,000 must be secured. Limits total annual loans to $200,000,000. Subtitle F: Reservoir Sedimentation Reduction Program - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a pilot program for reducing excessive sedimentation in up to five public reservoirs. Requires the House and Senate agriculture committees to approve each sedimentation reduction plan. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1983-1987. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by January 1, 1987. Subtitle G: Volunteers for Department of Agriculture Programs - Authorizes the use of volunteer conservation workers. Considers such volunteers Federal employees only for purposes of work-related injury and Federal tort claims. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Subtitle H: Resource Conservation and Development Program - Requires the Secretary to establish a Resource Conservation and Development program to provide financial and technical assistance to State and local governments and nonprofit organizations to develop plans of land conservation and water management in up to 225 designated rural areas. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a Resource Conservation and Development Policy Board; and (2) report to the House and Senate agricultural committees by December 31, 1986. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1987. Subtitle I: Farmland Protection Policy Act - Farmland Protection Policy Act - Directs the Department of Agriculture in connection with other Federal agencies to develop: (1) a farmland protection policy; and (2) criteria for identifying the effect of Federal programs on the conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees within one year. Encourages the Secretary to provide technical assistance to State, local, and nonprofit entities seeking to limit such conversion. Directs the Secretary to develop agricultural land resource information. Subtitle J: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to use Soil Conservation Service resources in natural disaster rescue operations. Authorizes the Secretary to implement experimental reclamation treatment projects to control erosion and improve water quality on unreclaimed mined lands within a hydrologic unit, consisting of up to 25,000 acres. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to farmers who remove cropland from production for up to one year in areas where the soil normally freezes at least four inches in order to install enduring conservation measures which require excavation. Urges the Secretary to: (1) promote conservation tillage as a way of controlling soil erosion; and (2) conduct research regarding the advantages and disadvantages of conservation tillage over other soil conservation practices. Title XVI: Credit, Rural Development, and Family Farms - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit cooperatives to receive Farmers Home Administration (FHA) loans if unable to otherwise get credit. Equalizes credit access for widows and other single parents. Permits the Secretary to approve certain long-term leases between Farmers Home Administration loan recipients and third-parties. Requires loan applicants to furnish written net worth statements. Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to extend the FHA economic emergency loan program through fiscal year 1982. Limits annual new loans to $600,000,000. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to limit the facility loan program to areas where there is a deficiency of such storage facilities. Title XVII: Floral Research and Consumer Information - Floral Research and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary to issue research and promotion orders for the plant trade. Prescribes administrative procedure for such orders. Requires the Secretary to appoint a Floraboard composed of not more than 75 producers and importers nominated by certified organizations. Requires such Floraboards to develop plans and projects subject to the Secretary's approval. Provides for assessments on the sale of flowers and plants to defray administrative costs. Specifies the terms an order may contain. Requires approval of an order by a referendum of producers. Requires the Secretary to suspend or terminate an order on his own initiative, or at the behest of a referendum under certain circumstances. Exempts certain producers and importers from coverage. Provides for assessment refunds and review of orders upon petition. Vests the district courts of the United States with enforcement jurisdiction. Sets forth criteria for the certification of producer and importer organizations. Enumerates investigative and legal powers of the Secretary with respect to Floraboard orders. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Title XVIII: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective upon enactment, unless otherwise provided for.

(Measure passed House, amended, in lieu of H. R. 3603, roll call #278 (192-160)) Food and Agriculture Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy Production Act of 1981 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to establish milk price supports for: (1) the period through fiscal year 1982 at not less than $13.10 per hundredweight for milk with 3.67 percent milk fat; (2) fiscal year 1983 at not less than 72.5 percent of parity; and (3) fiscal years 1984-1985 at between 70-75 percent of parity. Extends dairy base plan authority. Extends through 1985: (1) the program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals; and (2) the dairy indemnity program. Encourages wider consumption of dairy products through export promotion and domestic distribution. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to explore domestic casein production possibilities and report to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees within 90 days. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year regarding regional food security aspects of the dairy support program and milk marketing orders. Authorizes the Secretary to sell specified dairy and milk products to the Soviet Union. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Title III: Wheat - Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) wheat crop at not less than $3.55 per bushel; and (2) 1983-1985 crops at levels adjusted proportionally to the target price of wheat. Stipulates that the Secretary may adjust levels downward by up to ten percent (but not less than $3.00 per bushel) whenever the yearly price for the previous year is not more than 105 percent of the current loan and purchase level. Requires the Secretary to provide producers with the same return they would have received if such loan reductions occur. Authorizes a target price program for the 1982-1985 crops. Makes such payments mandatory if domestic carryover levels exceed 1,000,000,000 bushels. Sets such price for the: (1) 1982 crop at $4.20 per bushel; and (2) 1983-1985 crops at a level based on production costs over a specified time. Authorizes prevented planting and low yield disaster programs for the 1982-1985 crops only if Federal crop insurance was not generally available prior to planting. Requires the Secretary to provide for a 15 percent set-aside (with a five percent loan rate increase) if it is determined that there will be a domestic carryover in excess of six percent of world usage. Authorizes up to a 30 percent set-aside at the producer's option. Permits set-aside acreage to be planted in hay or for grazing. Requires set-asides to be announced by August 1 of each year. Suspends marketing quota and producer certificate provisions. Limits set-asides in areas where summer fallow practices have been in effect for three of the past five years. Title IV: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of: (1) the 1982 corn crop at not less than $2.65 per bushel; and (2) the 1983-1985 crops based on target price adjustments. Stipulates that such levels may be adjusted downward by up to ten percent (but not less than $2.00 per bushel) if the yearly price for the previous year is not more than 105 percent of the current loan and purchase level. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 grain sorghum, barley, and rye crops at a level based on the loan level for corn. Bases 1982-1985 oats levels on a weight comparison with other grains. Authorizes target prices for grain sorghum and corn. Makes such prices mandatory if domestic carryover exceeds 1,300,000,000 bushels. Sets the target price for: (1) the 1982 corn crop at $2.90 per bushel; (2) the 1983-1985 corn crops at a level based on production cost changes; and (3) grain sorghum, oats, and barley at a level based on corn payments. Authorizes disaster payments for the 1982 feed grain crops only if Federal crop insurance was not generally available prior to planting. Directs the Secretary to establish a corn set-aside of at least 15 percent (with a five percent loan rate increase) when carryover supplies of corn exceed 18 percent of the previous year's usage. Allows a producer to opt for up to a 25 percent set-aside. Requires such set-asides to be announced by November 1. Title V: Upland Cotton - Suspends marketing quotas, base acreage allotments, and related provisions for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops. Provides with regard to such crops that: (1) the minimum loan level shall be $55 per pound (currently $.48 per pound); (2) the base for the Northern European price quotation used to determine the loan rate shall be middling 1 3/32 inch cotton (currently strict middling 1 1/16 inch); (3) the target price shall be 120 percent of the loan level; (4) disaster payments shall be available in counties without generally available Federal crop insurance; (5) cotton acreage reductions could be required as a condition for program benefits instead of current set-aside authority; and (6) the Secretary would be required to establish a seed cotton recourse loan program. Extends skiprow provisions through 1985. Bases the preliminary allotment for the 1986 crop on the permanent (as adjusted) 1977 acreage allotment. Extends cotton price supports to extra long staple cotton. Title VI: Rice - Repeals acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions effective with the 1982 rice crop. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 rice crops at not less than $8.00 per hundredweight. Bases target prices on production costs. Makes disaster payments available only in counties where Federal crop insurance was not generally available prior to planting. Extends: (1) set-asides but authorizes the Secretary to limit acreage as a condition of benefits eligibility; and (2) land diversion programs. Requires the Secretary to report by July 31, 1981, to the Congress on rice futures trading, including the feasibility of using the average seasonal price received by farmers as a basis for computing loan and target prices. Title VII: Peanuts - Replaces the current peanut acreage allotment and poundage quota provisions with a loan support program beginning with the 1982 crop. Title VIII: Soybeans - Establishes the soybean price support program under the category of "basic agricultural commodity" for the 1982-1985 crop years. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 soybean crops at not less than $5.02 per bushel. Authorizes the Secretary to lower such level ten percent each year (but not below $4.50 per bushel) if the previous year's average market price was not in excess of 105 percent of the loan rate for that year. States that soybeans are ineligible for the producer storage reserve program and the production adjustment control program. Title IX: General and Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Continues current disaster and nondisaster payment limitations for wheat, feed grains, rice, and upland cotton through 1985. Continues and modifies the producer storage program for wheat and feed grains as follows: (1) provides an entry loan rate for grains at the higher of 110 percent of the loan rate or $3.85 per bushel for wheat and $2.80 per bushel for corn; (2) provides a minimum resale price for Commodity Credit Corporation stocks at 105 percent of the price levels at which the market rate interest rates are invoked; (3) authorizes the Secretary to waive storage changes and interest on support loans, to vary the size of the reserve, and to cancel early- release penalties, halt storage payments and impose market rate interest under specified circumstances. Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide for set-asides for the 1982-1985 wheat and feed grain crops as a result of executive export restrictions; and (2) reduce accumulated interest charges on Commodity Credit Corporation loans in order to discourage loan defaults. Makes the currently mandatory emergency feed program discretionary. Continues normally planted acreage requirements for the 1982-1985 wheat and feed grain crops (but not for rice and upland cotton) but bases such acreage on the preceding two years. Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act to increase license fee ceilings and the level of damages needed to entitle a respondent to an oral hearing. Increases the level of license-exempt retail purchases and brokers' sales. Amends the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the release of bee germ plasm to the public. Requires free distribution of surplus commodities to nutritional programs for children, the elderly, and the needy. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to establish in the Treasury a Commodity Credit Corporation Revolving Fund for Export Market Development and Expansion. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress regarding the Commodity Credit Corporation's use of such funds in carrying out export credit sales. Authorizes appropriations. Abolishes the Fund effective October 1, 1985. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service committees to forgive certain minor commodity loan violations. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to subject nonquota Maryland tobacco to marketing quotas in certain tobacco-producing areas. States that it is Congress' intent that the tobacco price support and production control program be carried out without public cost except for incidental administrative costs. Directs the Secretary to promulgate relevant regulations and recommend legislative changes to Congress by January 1, 1982. Amends the Federal Plant Pest Act to authorize the Secretary to take emergency action against new plant pests in the United States. Requires the Secretary to notify the Governor of an affected State before taking any action. Authorizes the Secretary to pay appropriate compensation. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a loan support program for the 1982-1985 oil sunflower seed crops. Sets the minimum support price at $8 per hundredweight. Title X: National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board - Establishes the National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board. Requires the Board to report annually to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Authorizes appropriations. Makes the authority provided in this title applicable for the 1982-1985 crop years. Title XI: Export Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to: (1) extend the program through December 31, 1985; (2) increase the annual ceiling; and (3) include other alcoholic beverages in addition to wine and beer within the authorization for overseas market development. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the loan rate to be set at 90 percent of parity for any executive embargo not based on national security, and at a level not less than the average market price during the 15 days preceding the embargo if based solely on national security. Exempts commodities if an embargo would reduce annual export tonnage by less than two percent. Waives interest charges on loans adjusted during an embargo and provides for payment of storage charges to producers. Directs the Secretary to report within six months to the Congress on the potential for increased food use of protein byproducts derived from alcohol fuel production. Expresses the sense of Congress that any agreement by the United States for foreign sales of wheat, corn, soybeans, or feed grains provide for a price of not less than the cost of production. Expresses the sense of the Congress that any company exporting wheat or feed grain shall not buy these commodities at less than their fair market value. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of alternative export grain marketing. Requires a report to the Congress by January 1, 1983. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to establish the export market price as a reimbursement ceiling for Food for Peace commodities. Requires Food for Peace agreements to be more specific regarding their agricultural self-help measures and how they will benefit the poor. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should take further steps to develop international markets for U.S. commodities. Requires congressional review of export agreements valued at more than $5,000,000 and for which the value to be received is less than 85 percent of the world market price. Title XII: Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend such programs through fiscal year 1985. Modifies the food stamp plan to: (1) delay the Thrifty Food Plan adjustment until October 1982; (2) impose an authorization ceiling for fiscal years 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 fixed at $11,300,000,000, $11,170,000,000, $11,115,000,000, and $11,305,000,000, respectively; (3) require the Secretary to permit any political subdivision that wishes to do so in return for a 50 percent share of workfare administrative costs and that agrees to comply with the Secretary's guidelines, to administer a workfare program in which non-exempt food stamp recipients must work for the subdivision at the Federal minimum hourly wage rate (or State rate, if higher), payable in the form of food stamps; (4) require parents and children who are living together to be treated as one household unless one parent is 60 years of age or older or is disabled and receiving other assistance; (5) eliminate establishments that do only a marginal staple food business, such as bars, gas stations, party stores, and carryout shops, from the program unless they are the only food store in the immediate area; (6) permit Alaska to have a distinct Thrifty Food Plan for its rural areas; (7) deny deductions for any expenses paid on a household's behalf by a third party and require the income and resources (over a floor) of sponsors of certain aliens to be deemed available to those aliens in order to determine the aliens' eligibility and benefits; (8) give the Secretary flexibility to alter the complex accounting standards for ascertaining the value of licensed vehicles; (9) (a) extend program disqualification for voluntarily quitting a job to current program participants, (b) extend sanctions for noncompliance with food stamp work registration requirements to food stamp participants who fail to satisfy an AFDC-WIN or unemployment compensation work requirement, and (c) make work registration an annual requirement; (10) make States strictly liable for issuance losses and provide liability for negligent failures in certain other areas of State agency administrative responsibility; (11) end the 60-day transfer provision permitting benefits to follow a household moving from one political subdivision to another in an uninterrupted fashion; (12) allow States flexibility to provide households with a notice of expiration of their certification periods up to 30 days before the start of the last month of a six month or longer certification period; (13) limit provision for expedited food stamp benefits within three working days of application to applicant households with $150 or less in gross income a month and liquid assets of $100 or less and to applicant households whose only income for ten days after filing an application is $25 or less from a new source of income and who also meet the $100 liquid assets test; (14) end the Department's liability to restore food stamps to households that have wrongfully been denied them or terminated from the program if the benefits were lost more than one year prior to a household's request for restoration; (15) require the State agency to request and utilize for certification purposes household members' wage and benefit information available from the Scoial Security Administration and State unemployment compensation agencies; (16) require the Secretary to allow political subdivisions to use certified mail in issuing food stamps to reduce mail theft and loss; (17) end the imposition of staffing standards upon the States; (18) require States to meet the Secretary's standard for improper denials and terminations in order to receive 55 percent Federal funding of administrative costs and further require all States with error rates over five percent to develop corrective action plans; (19) mandate obtaining a household's Social Security number as a prerequisite to participation; (20) extend pilot cash-out projects for four years at State option and expand possible cash-outs to include AFDC families; (21) provide contract and grant authority to develop means for continuous nutritional monitoring of high-risk populations; (22) require certain studies of retrospective accounting and periodic reporting methods; (23) provide penalties for the fraudulent misuse of commodities; (24) provide authority for pilot projects using the commodity supplemental feed program for low-income elderly persons; (25) authorize certain employees of the Office of the Inspector General to conduct certain law enforcement functions, including making warrantless arrests and carrying firearms; (26) provide for a first endorser liability for food stamp issuers; (27) exclude low-income energy assistance from eligibility determinations; (28) permit food retailers to redeem food stamps in savings and loan institutions; (29) permit Indians not living on reservations to receive food stamps; (30) exclude AFDC assistance for work-related and child care expenses as a reimbursement in the food stamp program; (31) authorize pilot projects to simplify application processing for certain AFDC, SSI and Medicaid recipients; (32) permit General Accounting Office audit access to Federal and State food stamp records; (33) require reporting of abuses through retail store notices, application notice, recipient information disclosures; and (34) minimum court sentencing for criminal violations of such Act. Title XIII: National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1981 - National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to revise the congressional findings and purposes of such Act to give greater emphasis to the role of State agricultural extension services in research and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. Extends from five to eight years the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences. Increases membership to at least 25 persons. Establishes three-year, staggered membership terms. Extends from five to eight years the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases membership from 21 to 25 persons. Establishes staggered terms for such members. Changes the due date of the Board's: (1) annual recommendations to the Secretary from October 31 to July 1; and (2) appraisal of the President's budget from March 1 to February 20. Specifies as part of the staff of six full-time professionals assisting the Joint Council and the Users Advisory Board: (1) an executive secretary for each entity; and (2) an executive director to serve both. Authorizes the Secretary to establish cooperative human nutrition centers to focus on high-priority nutrition problems. Changes the due date of the Secretary's annual agricultural research report from February 1 to January 1. States that the Department of Agriculture should establish working relationships with foreign information and data systems. Provides for the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture to carry out agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1985 for competitive agricultural research grants. Makes land grant college research foundations and veterinary colleges eligible for special grants. Changes the emphasis of facilities grants from purchasing equipment, land, and supplies to renovating existing buildings and limited new construction. Makes forestry schools and 1890 land grant colleges eligible for such grants. Authorizes specified appropriations for research facilities grants for fiscal years 1982-1985. Revises guidelines for higher education food and agricultural sciences grants. Transfers functions of the Secretary of Education under the Bankhead-Jones Act and the Morrill Act to the Secretary. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985. Extends the research grant program in alcohol fuels and industrial hydrocarbons through fiscal year 1985. Limits the total amount institutions in any one State may receive to $5,000,000. Changes the due date of the assessment of the value and costs of food and human nutrition research centers. Requires the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and of Agriculture to jointly formulate such report. Extends limited authorizations of appropriations ($25,000,000 annually) through fiscal year 1985 for animal health and disease research. Increases and extends through fiscal year 1985 the annual limit on authorizations of appropriations for national and regional animal health and disease research. Limits the duration of such grants to five years. Directs the Secretary to annually establish priority lists for these grants. Sets forth guidelines for such determinations. Extends and increases funding for 1890 land grant colleges (including Tuskegee Institute) through fiscal year 1982. Permits administrative funds to be used for transportation to research meetings of scientists who are not Federal employees. Establishes a dairy goat research program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance (on a reimbursable basis) to U.S. institutions involved in international agricultural research and extension. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985 for: (1) existing agricultural programs; (2) State agricultural experiment stations; and (3) extension education. Requires at least 25 percent of research and grant funds to be appropriated for Hatch Act State experiment stations beginning with fiscal year 1984. Provides that funds made available by the Secretary under specified Acts shall not be subject to reduction for indirect costs incurred by the recipient. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish an aquaculture research and extension program; (2) make grants to colleges and universities, federal laboratories, and experiment stations; and (3) assist States (up to $50,000) in formulating aquaculture development plans. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to the President and to the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture and Appropriations; and (2) establish an Aquaculture Advisory Board. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish a rangeland research program on a matching grant basis; and (2) make grants to colleges and universities, Federal laboratories, and experiment stations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to the President and to the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture and Appropriations; and (2) establish a Rangeland Advisory Board. Authorizes appropriations not to exceed $10,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1982-1985. Amends the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 to direct the Secretary to appoint an advisory forestry council. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to furnish excess Federal property to State or county extension services, 1890 land grant colleges, and State experiment stations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1986 for upgrading 1890 land grant college research facilities. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to eliminate a requirement that half of any funding for new veterinary school construction be made available for existing schools. Eliminates the requirement that State extension plans must be submitted by the State director of the cooperative extension service. Title XIV: Credit, Rural Development, and Family Farms - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit cooperatives to receive Farmers Home Administration (FHA) loans if unable to otherwise get credit. Requires loan applicants to furnish written net worth statements. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the congressional agriculture committees comparisons of the characteristics of limited resource borrowers and other borrowers. Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to extend the FHA economic emergency loan program through fiscal year 1982. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to limit the facility loans program to areas where there is a deficiency of such storage, at the secretary's discretion. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to: (1) extend for ten years and increase the annual authorization of appropriatons for U.S. class A stock purchases of the Rural Telephone Bank; and (2) change the date for retiring stock previously purchased by the United States from September 30, 1985 until September 30, 1995. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to include in his annual report to Congress an assessment of how: (1) Federal tax, credit, and other laws affect the growth of nonfamily farm operations; and (2) commodity price support reductions affect family farm structure. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit the Secretary to approve certain long-term leases between Farmers Home Administration loan recipients and third-parties. Title XV: Conservation - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide increased financial and technical assistance to landowners and operators in the most seriously eroding areas of the county, as designated by the Secretary. Requires a participant to furnish a plan which: (1) incorporates erosion conservation measures; (2) includes a schedule for carrying out such measures; (3) considers local conditions; (4) allows for varying the levels of application as appropriate; (5) may include wildlife and recreation enhancement; and (6) is to be developed in cooperation with, and approved by, the local soil and water conservation district. Requires: (1) a participant to forfeit further payments and reimburse the United States for payments received upon violation of the agreement; and (2) the Secretary to share the cost of such conservation measures. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to maintain already established conservation measures. Sets forth guidelines for special area determinations. Authorizes such designations for ten-year periods. Provides that contracts may not exceed ten years in duration and may be entered into for ten years following such a designation. Requires approval by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees of all project areas designated by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to any State having lands within a designated special area to evaluate the impact of State and local tax structures on conservation measures. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Requires the Secretary to submit an evaluation to Congress by January 1, 1986, and at five-year intervals thereafter. Directs the Secretary to establish a matching grant program with local governmental units through State soil conservation agencies. Requires local participants to: (1) have a long-range program in effect; (2) have an annual work plan consistent with such program in effect; and (3) have matching fund sources available. Authorizes necessary appropriations through fiscal year 1991. Requires the Secretary to report to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees by January 1, 1986, and again by January 1, 1991. States that such grants shall be made to augment rather than replace other Department of Agriculture technical and financial assistance programs. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to direct the Corporation, beginning with fiscal year 1982, to make loans for natural resource conservation and environmental enhancement measures recommended by specified county and State conservation committees as part of an overall local plan. Provides with regard to such loans that: (1) loan duration shall not exceed ten years, with interest rates based upon interest charged to the Corporation by the Treasury; (2) annual loans to an individual shall not exceed $25,000; and (3) loans over $10,000 must be secured. Directs the Secretary to establish a Department volunteer program without regard to Civil Service requirements. Deems such volunteers to be Federal employees for purposes of injury and tort compensation. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program to test the feasibility of reducing excessive reservoir sedimentation in areas having watershed soil erosion problems. Requires approval by the House and Senate Agricultural committees before implementing any program. Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal years years 1983-1987. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by January 1, 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to empower soil and water district boards to disapprove producers' designation of land under any set-aside or diversion program if such lands will make a less than average contribution to conservation compared with other lands that could have been so designated. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to owners and operators in certain cold climates who remove land from production for up to one year in order to install conservation measures involving excavation. Requires approval of local soil and water conservation boards. Prohibits such assistance in any one year of more than one-half of one percent of a county's cropland. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Agricultural Land Resources Policy Act - Directs the Department of Agriculture in connection with other Federal agencies to develop: (1) a farmland protection policy; and (2) criteria for identifying the effect of Federal programs on the conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees within one year. Encourages the Secretary to provide technical assistance to State, local, and nonprofit entities seeking to limit such conversion. Directs the Secretary to develop agricultural land resource information. Declares that rural areas are facing resource utilization, economic, and social problems. Directs the Secretary to establish a resource conservation and development program of technical and financial assistance to States, local governmental units, and nonprofit organizations for rural planning. Sets forth the terms of such agreements. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by December 31, 1986. Directs the Secretary to establish a Resource Conservation Development Policy Board. Title XVI: Continuation of Federal Crop Insurance Pilot Programs - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980 to continue through 1985 the pilot program of making Federal crop insurance available through selected county Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service offices. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by February 1, 1985. Title XVII: Conference - Requests the President to call a White House Conference on Agriculture within one year. Title XVIII: Imported Meat - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to prohibit meat from being imported into the United States: (1) unless it has been inspected under the same standards as apply to domestic meat; and (2) if such meat has been produced using chemicals or drugs banned in the production of domestic meat. Title XIX: User Fees for Reports and Publications - Authorizes the Secretary to charge user fees for reports and publications.

(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #273 (49-32)) Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to make dairy base plan authority permanent (current authority expires at the end of 1981). Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the dairy indemnity program and the program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals through 1985. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to reduce inventories of Commodity Credit Corporation dairy products to the maximum extent possible. Establishes the price support level of milk at 70 percent of parity for fiscal years 1982-1985. Stipulates that the Secretary may adjust such level whenever estimates of net milk and milk product levels will exceed $750,000,000, but not to a level less than that of the previous year. States that the support price shall not be less than $13.10 per hundred weight of milk containing 3.67 percent butterfat. States that milk support levels for the remainder of the 1981-1982 marketing year may be adjusted as provided for in this title. States congressional findings that: (1) the added cost to the dairy price support program resulting from imported milk protein products represents material interference with such program; and (2) import limitations on such products should be established. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Revises the support level for shorn wool from 85 to 75 percent of the existing formula. Deletes specified cumulative payment limit provisions. Repeals specified reimbursement provisions. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 wheat crops at not less than $3.50 per bushel. Sets minimum target prices for each of these years at $4.00, $4.20, $4.40, and $4.60, respectively. Permits the Secretary to establish higher prices as necessary. Makes prevented planting and disaster payments available for such crop years for producers for whom Federal crop insurance is not available. Authorizes the Secretary to make disaster payments to any wheat producer whose losses can not be alleviated by other assistance and crop insurance programs. Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage for each of the 1982-1985 wheat crops by not later than August 1 of each year. Sets forth national and individual acreage allocation formulas. Authorizes the Secretary to revise them as necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to limit wheat acreage to avoid an oversupply. Makes producers who knowingly produce in excess of their limit ineligible for program loans, purchases, and payments. Requires such nonwheat acreage to be used for conservation purposes, including specified crops under certain conditions. Authorizes a land diversion program for the 1982-1985 wheat crops. Authorizes the Secretary to require participation (if such program is in effect) as a condition of eligibility for loans, purchases, and payments. Authorizes the Secretary to permit State or county committees to waive or modify certain agreement deadlines. Exempts the 1982-1985 wheat crops from: (1) wheat processor and exporter certificate requirements; (2) marketing quota and producer certificate requirements; (3) quota provisions; and (4) price support provisions. Title IV: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 (corn) crops at not less than $2.50 per bushel. Bases loan and purchase levels for barley, oats, rye, and grain sorghum or parallel levels for corn. Sets minimum 1982-1985 corn target prices at $2.70, $2.85, $3.00, and $3.15, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to establish higher prices as necessary. Bases target prices for other feed grains on parallel corn prices. Authorizes prevented planting payments, disaster payments, acreage limitation programs, and land diversion programs for 1982-1985 in the same manner as for wheat. Permits the Secretary to exclude malting barley from any overall barley acreage reduction. Title V: Upland Cotton - Suspends specified marketing quota and acreage allotment provisions for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops. Establishes loan levels for such crops at the lower of 85 percent of the average U.S. cotton spot market price during the past five years, or 90 percent of the average Northern European cotton price. Stipulates that the loan level shall not be less than $.55 per pound. Requires the loan level to be announced by November 1 of each year. Prohibits it from being changed thereafter. Provides for deficiency payments to producers for 1982-1985 if the average market price is less than the established price. Sets forth payment formulas. Establishes minimum per pound target prices for the 1982-1985 crops at $.71, $.76, $.81, and $.86, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to raise such prices to reflect increased production costs. Authorizes prevented planting payments, disaster payments, acreage limitation programs, and land diversion programs for 1982-1985 in the same manner as for wheat. Requires the Secretary to: (1) make loans on seed cotton available for the 1982-1985 crops; and (2) establish loan program premiums and discounts. Extends skiprow provisions through 1985. Directs the Secretary to establish a committee to study alternative methods for establishing premiums and discounts for upland cotton loans to more accurately reflect actual market values. Title VI: Rice - Repeals acreage allotment and marketing quota programs for rice. Establishes minimum per hundredweight target prices for the 1982-1985 rice crops at $10.73, $11.23, $11.73, and $12.23, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to raise such prices to reflect increased production costs. Bases loans and purchases for each rice crop on previous target and actual prices. Authorizes the Secretary to decrease the loan rate (but not less than $8 per hundredweight) to avoid excess stocks. Authorizes prevented planting payments, disaster payments, acreage limitation programs, and land diversion programs for 1982-1985 in the same manner as for wheat. Title VII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to suspend marketing quotas and acreage allotments for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Sets the minimum national poundage quota for 1982-1985 at 1,240,000 tons, reduced in each year by the amount of any forfeited farm poundage quotas. Bases national poundage apportionment among the States on the basis of 1981 allocations. Bases farm base production poundage for the 1982-1985 crops on 1981 allocations. Permits specified modifications and forfeiture of unused acreage. Sets forth formulas for farm yields and farm poundage quotas. Requires the Secretary to conduct an annual four-year poundage quota referendum (by December 15) of farmers producing quota peanuts. Provides that if: (1) two-thirds favor quotas no referendum shall be held for the next three years; and (2) one-third oppose quotas no quota will be in effect for the following year. Permits sale, lease, or transfer of farm poundage quotas. Authorizes additional peanut contracts for crushing and export. Requires such contracts to be submitted to the Secretary before April 15. Permits such peanuts to be used as quota peanuts in specified situations. Permits Commodity Credit Corporation peanuts to be sold for domestic edible use at prices at least equal to costs plus 100-107 percent of the loan value of quota peanuts. Gives sole authority to the designated area marketing associations for selling additional peanuts under loan when such peanuts are sold at prices not less than the Commodity Credit Corporation's minimum price. Makes the penalty for excess quota marketing 120 percent of the support price for such peanuts. Establishes price supports for the 1982-1985 quota and additional peanut crops. Sets the minimum price for the 1982 quota crop at $596 per ton. Directs the Secretary to consider demand and prices for edible oil and meal and foreign peanut demand in setting "additional" peanut levels. Directs the Secretary to make warehouse storage loans available to designated area marketing associations (except to specified cooperatives) and to use such associations in related supervisory and administrative activities. Prohibits the Secretary from making price supports available for any crop for which poundage quotas have been disapproved by producers. Extends producer reporting and recordkeeping requirements through 1985. Suspends specified price support provisions for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Title VIII: Soybeans - Establishes a price support loan and purchase program for the 1982-1985 soybean crops. Bases such level on 75 percent of the average Chicago cash price for number one yellow soybeans for the five market years preceding the then current year. Sets a minimum support price of $5.02 per bushel. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring production adjustment participation as a condition for price support eligibility. Makes such soybean crops ineligible for the producer storage program. Prohibits the Secretary from making payments to producers for storing costs. Title IX: Sugar - Establishes a price support program for the 1982-1985 sugar beet and sugar cane crops. Sets the support level for the period ending March 31, 1982, to approximate a raw sugar price of $.196 per pound. Requires the Secretary, as of October 1, 1982, to support sugar prices through 1985 as follows: (1) for sugar cane, $.18, $.185, $.19, and $.195; and (2) for sugar beets, at a level in relation to the support level for raw sugar cane. Title X: Grain Reserves - Revises the wheat and feed grain reserves program to: (1) make the wheat reserve program discretionary rather than mandatory; (2) permit the Secretary to set reserve loan levels higher than the regular support level; (3) delete interest waiver requirements; (4) permit storage payment levels to be made at levels to induce producer participation; (5) authorize the Secretary to require early repayment in emergency cases, after notifying the House and Senate agriculture committees; (6) prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling wheat or feed grains at less than 105 percent of the estimated current cost of production whenever the storage program is in effect; (7) establish the loan repayment period at between three and five years with an adjustable interest rate based upon the Commodity Credit Corporation's rate; and (8) replace the existing wheat reserve requirement with one authorizing the Secretary to place upper limits of at least 700 million bushels for wheat and one billion bushels for feed grains. Repeals international food reserve and natural disaster reserve provisions. Makes the mandatory Commodity Credit Corporation farm storage facility loan program discretionary. Title XI: Miscellaneous - Extends annual payment limitations through 1985. Prohibits deficiency payments from being made to States or their subdivisions. Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1985. Extends coverage under the emergency livestock feed program to poultry producers. Directs: (1) the Secretary to appoint a special task force to study the concept of farm income protection insurance; (2) such task force to report to the Senate and House agriculture committees within 18 months of enactment of this Act; and (3) such task force to be dissolved 45 days after submitting such report. Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to authorize State agencies to perform official inspections at export port locations under specified circumstances. Revises title XVIII of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 relating to Department of Agriculture advisory committees. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to increase from $300,000,000 to $600,000,000 the limit on Rural Telephone Bank stock that may be issued to the Government. Extends: (1) the Government's authority to buy such stock to September 30, 1991; or (2) the date for the Government to retire such stock to September 30, 1995. Encourages the Secretary to continue grain marketing consultations with other major grain exporters. Reaffirms U.S. policy to encourage the family farm system of agriculture. Requires the Secretary's annual report to include an assessment of how tax, credit, and other laws affect the growth of nonfamily farm operations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should use his authority to expand foreign markets for U.S. agricultural products. Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, to increase license fee ceilings and the damage threshhold entitling a respondent to an oral hearing. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a special shelterbelt program (vegetative barrier) beginning on October 1, 1981. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into five-year agreements with landowners and operators to create and maintain such shelterbelts. Sets forth program guidelines. Amends the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 to: (1) create a 60-day statutory lien in favor of farm producers who have sold produce to a bankrupt storage facility but have not received payment for such produce; (2) create a timetable to govern abandonment of farm produce in such a facility; (3) grant farmers who have suffered a loss a priority position in the distribution of assets; (4) prohibit an involuntary bailment of crop assets owned by third parties to such a facility subject to a reorganization proceeding; (5) provide for the appointment of Federal or State entities as interim trustees; (6) require a bankruptcy court to accept warehouse and sales receipts as proof of crop assets ownership; and (7) limit to $2,000 and 180 days a farmer's priority as a general unsecured creditor in such a bankruptcy proceeding. Makes it unlawful to offer for sale or advertise by variety name protected seed (certified under the Plant Variety Protection Act) not certified by a State agency. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary conduct research into the advantages and disadvantages of conservation tillage over other soil conservation practices. Amends the Federal Plant Pest Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to take emergency measures against plant pests if State action is inadequate. Authorizes intrastate inspections without warrants by Department of Agriculture personnel. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to equalize credit access for widows and other single parents. Amends the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the Secretary to release bee germ plasm to the public. Title XII: Agricultural Exports - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to establish in the U.S. Treasury an Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to make loans to foreign purchasers of U.S. agricultural commodities and breeding animals and for loans for related overseas facilities construction acquisition. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports (beginning not later than December 31, 1982) to Congress. Dissolves such Fund effective October 1, 1985. Limits loan obligation authority to the extent that such obligations do not exceed annual limitations on new direct loan obligations in annual appropriations. Requires congressional consultation on bilateral commodity supply agreements at least 30 days before any such agreement is entered into. Directs the Secretary to formulate a special export subsidy program to neutralize the effects of foreign subsidies in non-U.S. markets. Sets forth the determinations which the President must make before the Secretary may act. Urges the Secretary to implement a special export subsidy program for potatoes. Requires the Secretary to make compensatory loans or payments to farmers affected by a national security or foreign policy agriculture embargo if: (1) the embargo does not block all exports to the other country; and (2) such country imported more than three percent of all such agricultural commodities exported the year before. Sets forth payment amounts. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of foreign trade policies and practices as they affect U.S. agricultural exports; and (2) report to the Congress within 180 days. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan to deal with the adverse impact of suspensions on export sales. Requires: (1) the plan to assess existing farm programs, evaluate available information, and develop criteria to determine necessary protective offsets; (2) the Secretary to report to the Congress; and (3) the Commodity Credit Corporation to justify any contract purchases. Title XIII: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to extend through 1985 the President's authority to make agricultural sales under title I of such Act and provide commodity assistance under title II of such Act. Deletes annual appropriation ceilings under title I and increases such ceiling to $1,000,000,000 under title II. Increases from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the annual foreign currency limit for emergency nonfood relief. Adds specified self-help requirements under title I eligibility. Repeals Commodity Credit Corporation ocean freight provisions. Repeals the provision limiting the amount of title I agreements. Makes distilled spirits eligible for the market development program in the same manner as beer and wine. Changes the annual reporting date to Congress from April 1 to July 1. Permits the Secretary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation at less than the export market price. Title XIV: Research, Extension, and Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to emphasize the importance of the Federal-State partnership in agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Extends the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences to December 31, 1986. Increases membership to at least 25 persons, to be appointed in staggered three-year terms. Emphasizes the role of State cooperative institutions in providing regional planning and cooperation. Requires an annual report to the Congress by June 30 of each year. Extends the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board to December 31, 1986. Increases membership to at least 25 persons, to be appointed in staggered terms. Changes the date of the Secretary's annual agricultural research and teaching report to the President and Congress from February 1 to January 1. Makes a declaration of congressional policy that the Department of Agriculture establish working relationships with foreign and international libraries and information networks. Revises specified notification responsibilities of the National Agricultural Library's Food and Nutrition Information and Education Resources Center. Authorizes appropriations for the Joint Council and Advisory Board, including travel expenses. Requires the Subcommittee on Food, Agricultural and Forestry Research, the Joint Council, and the Advisory Board to conduct joint meetings and coordinate activities. Creates an additional Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs. Authorizes appropriations for competitive research grants through fiscal year 1987. Makes land grant college research foundations eligible for special grants and cooperative forestry schools and land grant colleges eligible for facilities grants. Limits specified research facilities grant eligibility to projects: (1) to renovate facilities or acquire equipment; or (2) for new auxiliary construction or fixed research equipment. Amends the Research Facilities Act of 1963 to extend the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1987. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act to: (1) direct the Secretary to develop a higher education program in the food and agricultural sciences; (2) direct the Secretary of Education to transfer specified authority not already transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977; (3) authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to colleges for food and agricultural sciences programs, and (4) make competitive grants for specialized programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for higher education grants through fiscal year 1987. Transfers specified teaching and related functions from the Secretary of Education to the Secretary of Agriculture. Extends the authorization of appropriations for alcohol and industrial hydrocarbon research grants through fiscal year 1987. Increases the maximum amounts awardable to institutions in any one State. Establishes an allocation formula for distributing funds under the nutrition education program. Extends the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board to December 1, 1986. Limits animal health and research funding to State agricultural experiment stations and accredited veterinary colleges. Requires the Secretary to establish priority lists of animal health problems and award grants on the basis of these priorities. Provides that beginning with fiscal year 1982 annual extension appropriations at 1890 land grant colleges (including Tuskegee Institute) shall not be less than five and one-half percent of the total annual appropriation under the Smith-Lever Act. Authorizes Federal funds to be used for travel by non-Federal scientists to research meetings. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1986 to upgrade 1890 land grant college (including Tuskegee Institute) research facilities. Makes four percent of such appropriations available for administrative costs. Prohibits grant funds from being used to pay overhead costs of the colleges. Authorizes appropriations for solar model farms and demonstration projects through fiscal year 1986. Directs the Secretary to utilize institutions of higher education to develop linkages among such institutions, the Federal Government, and international research centers to improve worldwide food and agricultural progress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance (on a reimbursable basis) to U.S. institutions so involved. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to land grant colleges, State agricultural experiment stations, and other qualified research institutions to improve the production and quality of rangeland forage for livestock and wildlife. Requires States to provide 50 percent of the funds. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a Rangeland Research Advisory Board; and (2) report annually to the Congress. Authorizes up to $10,000,000 annually for these purposes. Amends the McIntire- Stennis Act of 1962 to direct the Secretary to appoint a 16 member forestry advisory council. Amends Federal law to make funds from customs duties on agricultural products available for food and agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to furnish excess Federal property to State and county extension services, agricultural experimental stations, and land grant colleges. Amends title V of the Rural Development Act of 1972 to revise and extend the rural development and small farm research and extension programs. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Soybean Research Advisory Institute. Requires the Institute to report to the House and Senate agriculture committees by March 1, 1983. Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that imported meat products meet inspection and other domestic standards. Title XV: Resource Conservation - Subtitle A: Soil and Water Conservation - Reaffirms Congress' policy to promote, improve, and protect soil and water conservation and resources. Requires the Secretary to submit a comprehensive soil and water conservation policy report to the Congress by December 31, 1981. Subtitle B: Special Areas Conservation Program - Requires the Secretary to establish a Special Areas Conservation Program to identify and correct severe erosion or water management problems. Provides technical and financial assistance on a costsharing basis to aid operators and landowners in carrying out conservation measures (as set forth in approved conservation plans in designated areas). Limits these contracts to ten years' duration. States that participants would not be disqualified from receiving benefits under other Department of Agriculture programs. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress every five years begining no later than January 1, 1986. Subtitle C: Amendments to the Small Watershed Program and the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act - Permits Indian tribes and tribal organizations to sponsor small watershed projects. Exempts watershed projects that involve less than $5,000,000 (presently $1,000,000) in Federal funds from congressional approval. Authorizes the Secretary to share up to 50 percent of the cost of acquiring land and rights-of-way by local organizations for fish and wildlife losses. Adds energy conservation as an element that may be included in Federal small watershed project agreements. Amends the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to permit energy resources development in connection with conservation projects eligible for cost sharing. Subtitle D: Reservoir Sedimentation Reduction Program - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a five-year pilot program for reducing excessive sedimentation in up to five public reservoirs. Requires the House and Senate agriculture committees to approve each sedimentation reduction plan. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983-1987. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by January 1, 1987. Subtitle E: Volunteers for Conservation - Authorizes the use of volunteer conservation workers. Considers such volunteers Federal employees only for purposes of work-related injury and Federal tort claims. Subtitle F: Resources Conservation and Development Program - Requires the Secretary to establish a Resource Conservation and Development program to provide financial and technical assistance to State and local governments and nonprofit organizations to develop plans of land conservation and water management in up to 225 designated rural areas. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a Resource Conservation and Development Policy Board; and (2) report to the House and Senate agriculture committees by September 30, 1986. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983-1987. Subtitle G: Farmland Protection Policy Act - Farmland Protection Policy Act - Authorizes the Secretary to coordinate Federal efforts to protect agricultural lands from Federal actions. Requires Government units to review applicable laws and procedures to determine whether any provisions would prevent them from complying with this subtitle, except in the case of national defense. Requires the Secretary to report to the House and Senate agriculture committees within one year. Subtitle H: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to use Soil Conservation Service resources in natural disaster rescue operations. Authorizes the Secretary to implement experimental reclamation treatment projects on unreclaimed mined lands in hydrologic units, rather than individual land parcels, without regard to acreage limitations. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to farmers in areas where the soil normally freezes at least four inches who remove cropland from production for up to one year in order to install enduring conservation measures which require excavation. Title XVI: National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board - Establishes the National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board to revise the Department's cost-of-production methodology and advise the Secretary as necessary. Requires the Board to report annually to the Secretary and the House and Senate agriculture committees. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Dissolves the Board as of September 30, 1985. Title XVII: Floral Research and Consumer Information - Floral Research and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue research and promotion orders for the plant trade. Prescribes administrative procedure for such orders. Requires the Secretary to appoint a Floraboard composed of not more than 75 producers and importers nominated by certified organizations. Requires such Floraboards to develop plans and projects subject to the Secretary's approval. Provides for assessments on the sale of flowers and plants to defray administrative costs. Specifies the terms an order may contain. Requires approval of an order by a referendum of producers. Requires the Secretary to suspend or terminate an order on his own initiative, or at the behest of a referendum, under certain circumstances. Exempts certain producers and importers from coverage Provides for assessment refunds and review of orders upon petition. Vests the district courts of the United States with enforcement jurisdiction. Sets forth criteria for the certification of producer and importer organizations. Enumerates investigative and legal powers of the Secretary with respect to Floraboard orders. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Title XVIII: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective on October 1, 1981, unless otherwise provided for.

(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with amendment, S. Rept. 97-126) Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to make dairy base plan authority permanent (current authority expires at the end of 1981). Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the dairy indemnity program and the program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals through 1985. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to reduce inventories of Commodity Credit Corporation dairy products to the maximum extent possible. Directs the Secretary, for fiscal years 1982-1985, to support the price of milk at not less than 70 percent of parity when net costs and net purchases do not exceed specified amounts (otherwise price supports remain at present levels of 75-90 percent of parity). Requires a semi-annual adjustment if such price support is less than 70 percent of parity. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Revises the support level for shorn wool from 85 to 75 percent of the existing formula. Deletes specified cumulative payment limit provisions. Repeals specified reimbursement provisions. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 wheat crops at not less than $3.50 per bushel. Sets minimum target prices for each of these years at $4.20, $4.40, $4.60, and $4.80, respectively. Permits the Secretary to establish higher prices as necessary. Makes prevented planting and disaster payments available for such crop years for producers for whom Federal insurance is not available. Authorizes the Secretary to make disaster payments to any wheat producer whose losses cannot be alleviated by other assistance and crop insurance programs. Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage for each of the 1982-1985 wheat crops by not later than August 1 of each year. Sets forth national and individual acreage allocation formulas. Authorizes the Secretary to revise them as necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to limit wheat acreage to avoid an oversupply. Makes producers who knowingly produce in excess of their limit ineligible for program loans, purchases, and payments. Requires such nonwheat acreage to be used for conservation purposes, including specified crops under certain conditions. Authorizes a land diversion program for the 1982-1985 wheat crops. Authorizes the Secretary to require participation (if such program is in effect) as a condition of eligibility for loans, purchases, and payments. Authorizes the Secretary to permit State or county committees to waive or modify certain agreement deadlines. Exempts the 1982-1985 wheat crops from: (1) wheat processor and exporter certificate requirements; (2) marketing quota and produce certificate requirements; (3) quota provisions; and (4) price support provisions. Title IV: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 corn crops at not less than $2.60 per bushel. Bases loan and purchase levels for barley, oats, rye, and grain sorghum on parallel levels for corn. Sets minimum 1982-1985 corn target prices at $2.80, $2.95, $3.10, and $3.25, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to establish higher prices as necessary. Bases target prices for the other feed grains on parallel corn prices. Authorizes prevented planting payments, disaster payments, acreage limitation programs, and land diversion programs for 1982-1985 in the same manner as for wheat. Title V: Upland Cotton - Suspends specified marketing quota and acreage allotment provisions for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops. Establishes loan levels for such crops at the lower of 85 percent of the average U.S. cotton spot market price during the past five years, or 90 percent of the average Northern European cotton price. Stipulates that the loan level shall not be less than $.55 per pound. Requires the loan level to be announced by November 1 of each year. Prohibits it from being changed thereafter. Provides for deficiency payments to producers for 1982-1985 if the average market price is less than the established price. Sets forth payment formulas. Establishes minimum per pound target prices for the 1982-1985 crops at $.71, $.76, $.85, and $.93, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to raise such prices to reflect increased production costs. Authorizes prevented planting payments, disaster payments, acreage limitation programs, and land diversion programs for 1982-1985 in the same manner as for wheat. Requires the Secretary to: (1) make loans on seed cotton available for the 1982-1985 crops; and (2) establish loan program premiums and discounts. Extends skiprow provisions through 1985. Title VI: Rice - Repeals acreage allotment and marketing quota programs for rice. Establishes minimum per hundredweight target prices for the 1982-1985 rice crops at $11.23, $12.14, $12.70, and $13.50, respectively. Authorizes the Secretary to raise such prices to reflect increased production costs. Bases loans and purchases for each rice crop on previous target and actual prices. Authorizes the Secretary to decrease the loan rate (but not less than $8 per hundred weight) to avoid excess stocks. Authorizes prevented planting payments, disaster payments, acreage limitation programs, and land diversion programs for 1982-1985 in the same manner as for wheat. Title VII: Peanuts - Exempts the 1982-1985 peanut crops from annual marketing quota and State acreage allotment requirements. Provides that the 1982-1985 New Mexico peanut allotments shall not be reduced below the adjusted 1977 level. Establishes for the 1982-1985 peanut crops a minimum national acreage allotment of 1,614,000 acres, and a minimum national poundage quota of 1,300,000 tons. Authorizes the Secretary to increase such quota as necessary. Extends provisions relating to sale, lease, and transfer of acreage allotments for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Permits acreage allotments and marketing quotas to be transferred without regard to county boundaries in a State having a peanut acreage allotment of not more than 11,000 acres. Requires the Secretary to announce the national acreage allotment by December 1 of each year. Sets forth individual farm yield, base production poundage, and poundage quota formulas. Permits a producer to carry forward more than one year's undermarketing as long as he plants at least half of the allotment. Retains the program's two-tier system of "quota" and "additional" peanuts. Makes the penalty for excess quota marketing 120 percent of the support price for such peanuts. Applies this penalty to "additional" peanuts under specified conditions. Directs the Secretary to: (1) authorize specified county committees to reduce or waive penalties for unintentional violations; (2) provide that weight errors not exceeding one-tenth of one percent in the case of any marketing document shall not be considered violations except in cases of fraud or conspiracy; (3) permit the Secretary to exempt certain seed peanuts from marketing penalties; (4) penalize handlers for marketing peanuts in excess of the quantity, grade or quality of quota levels; (5) change the deadline for contracting for additional peanuts from June 15 to April 15; (6) permit producers to redeem additional peanuts from loan at prices equal to 100 to 107 percent of the loan level of quota peanuts; and (7) give sole authority to the area marketing associations for selling additional peanuts under loan when such peanuts are sold at prices not less than the Commodity Credit Corporation's minimum price. Establishes the minimum price support level for the 1982-1985 crops at $631 per ton. Prohibits the reduction of such levels for inspection, handling, or storage. States that the Secretary shall consider demand and prices for edible oil and meal and foreign peanut demand in setting the price support level for "additional" peanuts. Stipulates that such levels may not be set low enough to result in a net loss. Requires the Secretary to make warehouse storage loans available to designated area marketing associations (except to specified cooperatives) and to use such associations in related supervisory and administrative activities. Title VIII: Soybeans - Establishes a price support loan and purchase program for the 1982-1985 soybean crops. Bases such level on 75 percent of the average Chicago cash price for number one yellow soybeans for the five market years preceding the current year. Sets a minimum support price of $5.02 per bushel. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring production adjustment participation as a condition for price support eligibility. Makes such soybean crops ineligible for the producer storage program. Prohibits the Secretary from making payments to producers for storing costs. Title IX: Sugar - Establishes a price support program for the 1982-1985 sugar beet and sugar cane crops. Sets the support level for the period ending March 31, 1982, to approximate a raw sugar price of $.196 per pound. Requires the Secretary, as of October 1, 1982, to support sugar prices through 1985 as follows: (1) for sugar cane, at not less than $.96 per pound; and (2) for sugar beets, at a level in relation to the support level for raw sugar cane. Title X: Grain Reserves - Revises the wheat and feed grain reserves program to: (1) make the wheat reserve program discretionary rather than mandatory; (2) permit the Secretary to set reserve loan levels higher than the regular support level; (3) delete interest waiver requirements; (4) permit storage payment levels to be made at levels to induce producer participation; (5) authorize the Secretary to require early repayment in emergency cases, after notifying the House and Senate agriculture committees; (6) prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling wheat or feed grains at less than 105 percent of the estimated current cost of production whenever the storage program is in effect; (7) establish the loan repayment period at between three and five years with an adjustable interest rate based upon the Commodity Credit Corporation's rate; and (8) replace the existing wheat reserve requirement with one authorizing the Secretary to place upper limits of at least 700 million bushels for wheat and one billion bushels for feed grains. Repeals international food reserve and natural disaster reserve provisions. Makes the mandatory Commodity Credit Corporation farm storage facility loan program discretionary. Title XI: Miscellaneous - Extends annual payment limitations through 1985. Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1985. Extends coverage under the emergency livestock feed program to poultry producers. Directs: (1) the Secretary to appoint a special task force to study the concept of farm income protection insurance; (2) such task force to report to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees within 18 months of enactment of this Act; and (3) such task force to be dissolved 45 days after submitting such report. Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to authorize State agencies to perform official inspections at export port locations under specified circumstances. Revises title XVIII of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 relating to Department of Agriculture advisory committees. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to increase from $300,000,000 to $600,000,000 the limit on Rural Telephone Bank stock that may be issued to the Government. Extends: (1) the Government's authority to buy such stock to September 30, 1991; and (2) the date for the Government to retire such stock to September 30, 1995. Encourages the Secretary to continue grain marketing consultations with other major grain exporters. Title XII: Agricultural Exports - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to establish in the U.S. Treasury an Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to make loans to foreign purchasers of U.S. agricultural commodities and breeding animals and for loans for related overseas facilities construction and acquisition. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports (beginning not later than December 31, 1982) to Congress. Dissolves such Fund effective October 1, 1985. Requires congressional consultation on bilateral commodity supply agreements at least 30 days before any such agreement is entered into. Directs the Secretary to formulate a special export subsidy program to neutralize the effects of such foreign subsidies in non-U.S. markets. Sets forth the determinations which must be first made by the President before the Secretary may so act. Requires the Secretary to make compensatory loans or payments to farmers affected by a national security or foreign policy agricultural embargo if: (1) the embargo does not block all exports to the other country; and (2) such country imported more than three percent of all such agricultural commodities exported the year before. Sets forth payment amounts. Title XIII: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to extend through 1985 the President's authority to make agricultural sales under title I of such Act and provide commodity assistance under title II of such Act. Deletes annual appropriation ceilings under title I and increases such ceiling to $1,000,000,000 under title II. Increases from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the annual foreign currency limit for emergency nonfood relief. Adds specified self-help requirements under title I eligibility. Repeals Commodity Credit Corporation ocean freight provisions. Repeals the provision limiting the amount of title I agreements. Makes distilled spirits eligible for the market development program in the same manner as beer and wine. Changes the annual reporting date to Congress from April 1 to July 1. Title XIV: Research, Extension, and Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to emphasize the importance of the Federal-State partnership in agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Extends the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences to December 31, 1986. Increases membership to at least 25 persons, to be appointed in staggered three-year terms. Emphasizes the role of State cooperative institutions in providing regional planning and cooperation. Requires an annual report to the Congress by June 30 of each year. Extends the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board to December 31, 1986. Increases membership to at least 25 persons, to be appointed in staggered terms. Changes the date of the Secretary's annual agricultural research and teaching report to the President and Congress from February 1 to January 1. Makes a declaration of congressional policy that the Department of Agriculture establish working relationships with foreign and international libraries and information networks. Revises specified notification responsibilities of the National Agricultural Library's Food and Nutrition Information and Education Resources Center. Authorizes appropriations for the Joint Council and Advisory Board, including travel expenses. Requires the Subcommittee on Food, Agricultural and Forestry Research, the Joint Council, and the Advisory Board to conduct joint meetings and coordinate activities. Creates an additional Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs. Authorizes appropriations for competitive research grants through fiscal year 1987. Makes land grant college research foundations eligible for special grants and cooperative forestry schools and land grant colleges eligible for facilities grants. Limits specified research facilities grant eligibility to projects: (1) to renovate facilities or acquire equipment; or (2) for new auxiliary construction or fixed research equipment. Amends the Research Facilities Act of 1963 to extend the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1987. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act to: (1) direct the Secretary to develop a higher education program in the food and agricultural sciences; (2) direct the Secretary of Education to transfer specified authority not already transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977; (3) authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to colleges for food and agricultural sciences programs; and (4) make competitive grants for specialized programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for higher education grants through fiscal year 1987. Transfers specified teaching and related functions from the Secretary of Education to the Secretary of Agriculture. Extends the authorization of appropriations for alcohol and industrial hydrocarbon research grants through fiscal year 1987. Increases the maximum amounts awardable to institutions in any one State. Establishes an allocation formula for distributing funds under the nutrition education program. Extends the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board to December 1, 1986. Limits animal health and research funding to State agricultural experiment stations and accredited veterinary colleges. Requires the Secretary to establish priority lists of animal health problems and award grants on the basis of these priorities. Provides that beginning with fiscal year 1982 annual extension appropriations at 1890 land grant colleges (including Tuskegee Institute) shall not be less than five and one-half percent of the total annual appropriation under the Smith-Lever Act. Authorizes Federal funds to be used for travel by nonfederal scientists to research meetings. Authorizes appropriations for solar model farms and demonstration projects through fiscal year 1987. Directs the Secretary to utilize institutions of higher education to develop linkages among such institutions, the Federal Government, and international research centers to improve worldwide food and agricultural progress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance (on a reimbursable basis) to U.S. institutions so involved. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to land grant colleges, State agricultural experiment stations, and other qualified research institutions to improve the production and quality of rangeland forage for livestock and wildlife. Requires States to provide 50 percent of the funds. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a Rangeland Research Advisory Board; and (2) report annually to the Congress. Authorizes up to $10,000,000 annually for these purposes. Amends the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 to direct the Secretary to appoint a 16 member forestry advisory council. Amends Federal law to make funds from custom duties on agricultural products available for food and agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to furnish excess Federal property to State and county extension services, agricultural experimental stations, and to land grant colleges. Amends title V of the Rural Development Act of 1972 to revise and extend the rural development and small farm research and extension programs. Title XV: Resource Conservation - Subtitle A: Soil and Water Conservation - Reaffirms Congress' policy to promote, improve, and protect soil and water conservation and resources. Requires the Secretary to submit a comprehensive soil and water conservation policy report to the Congress by December 31, 1981. Subtitle B: Special Areas Conservation Program - Requires the Secretary to establish a Special Areas Conservation Program to identify and correct severe erosion or water management problems. Provides technical and financial assistance on a cost-sharing basis to aid operators and landowners in carrying out conservation measures (as set forth in approved conservation plans in designated areas). Limits these contracts to ten years' duration. States that participants would not be disqualified from receiving benefits under other Department of Agriculture programs. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress every five years beginning no later than January 1, 1986. Subtitle C: Amendments to the Small Watershed Program and the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act - Permits Indian tribes and tribal organizations to sponsor small watershed projects. Exempts watershed projects that involve less than $5,000,000 (presently $1,000,000) in Federal funds from congressional approval. Authorizes the Secretary to share up to 50 percent of the cost of acquiring land and rights-of-way by local organizations for fish and wildlife losses. Adds energy conservation as an element that may be included in Federal small watershed project agreements. Amends the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to permit energy resources development in connection with conservation projects eligible for cost sharing. Subtitle D: Reservoir Sedimentation Reduction Program - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a five-year pilot program for reducing excessive sedimentation in up to five public reservoirs. Requires the House and Senate agriculture committees to approve each sedimentation reduction plan. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983-1987. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by January 1, 1987. Subtitle E: Volunteers for Conservation - Authorizes the use of volunteer conservation workers. Considers such volunteers Federal employees only for purposes of work-related injury and Federal tort claims. Subtitle F: Resources Conservation and Development Program - Requires the Secretary to establish a Resource Conservation and Development program to provide financial and technical assistance to State and local governments and nonprofit organizations to develop plans of land conservation and water management in up to 225 designated rural areas. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a Resource Conservation and Development Policy Board; and (2) report to the House and Senate agriculture committees by September 30, 1986. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983-1987. Subtitle G: Agricultural Land Protection Policy Act - Agricultural Land Protection Policy Act - Authorizes the Secretary to coordinate Federal efforts to protect agricultural lands from Federal actions. Requires Government units to review applicable laws and procedures to determine whether any provisions would prevent them from complying with this subtitle, except in the case of national defense. Requires the Secretary to report to the House and Senate agriculture committees within one year. Subtitle H: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to use Soil Conservation Service resources in natural disaster rescue operations. Authorizes the Secretary to implement experimental reclamation treatment projects on unreclaimed mined lands in hydrologic units, rather than individual land parcels, without regard to acreage limitations. Title XVI: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective as of October 1, 1981, except as otherwise provided for.

Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to make dairy base plan authority permanent (current authority expires at the end of 1981). Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend through 1985: (1) semiannual milk support adjustments; (2) the program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals; and (3) the dairy indemnity program. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 wheat crops at the higher of $3.20 per bushel or 85 percent of the average U.S. price over a given period in order to keep the price of wheat competitive with that of other grains. Extends current authority through 1985 for land diversion payments to wheat producer. Exempts the 1982-1985 wheat crops from: (1) marketing quotas and producers certificate provisions; (2) quota provisions; and (3) current support price levels. Extends the Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions for wheat and feed grains through 1985. Extends the nonapplicability of processor and exporter certificate requirements to wheat processors and exporters through May 31, 1986. Title IV: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) 1982 corn crop at not less than $2.40 per bushel or 75 percent of the average U.S. corn price over a given period; and (2) 1983-1985 corn crops at between 65-85 percent of such price (with a minimum of $2.40 per bushel). Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 crops of barley, oats, grain sorghums, and rye at levels determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Extends current authority through 1985 for: (1) land diversion payments to feed grain producers; (2) the inapplicability of certain price support provisions to such producers. Title V: Upland Cotton - Extends for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops: (1) marketing quota and acreage allotment suspensions; (2) loan levels, with a provision that upland cotton imported into the United States while a special quota is in effect shall not be subject to import duties; (3) Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions; (4) skiprow practices; (5) exemptions from cotton-soybean equivalency requirements; and (6) the land diversion program. States that the permanent State, county and farm base acreage allotments for the 1977 upland cotton crop shall be the preliminary allotments for the 1986 crop. Title VI: Rice - Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) 1982 rice crop at 75 percent of the average U.S. rice crop over a given period; and (2) 1983-1985 rice crops at between 65-85 percent of such price. States that the level for the 1982-1985 crops shall not be less than $8.01 per hundredweight. Extends the land diversion program. Suspends provisions relating to allotments, marketing quotas, and acreage apportionment for the 1982-1985 rice crops. Title VII: Peanuts - Exempts the 1982-1985 peanut crops from annual marketing quota and State acreage allotment requirements. Provides that the 1982-1985 New Mexico peanut allotments shall not be reduced below the adjusted 1977 level. Extends for the 1982-1985 peanut crops provisions relating to the national acreage allotment, national poundage quota, and farm poundage quota. Modifies such provisions to: (1) set a minimum national acreage allotment of 1,614,000 acres; (2) set a minimum national poundage quota of 1,440,000 tons increased as necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (3) require and set forth formulae for determining individual farm yields, base production poundage, and poundage quotas. States that if the total of all increases in individual farm poundage quotas exceeds ten percent of the national poundage quota the Secretary shall adjust such increases in order not to exceed such national poundage quota. Extends provisions relating to sale, lease, and transfer of acreage allotments for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Permits acreage allotments and marketing quotas to be transferred without regard to county boundaries in a State having a peanut acreage allotment of not more than 11,000 acres. Extends provisions relating to marketing penalties and the disposition of additional peanuts for the 1982-1985 crops. Modifies such provisions to: (1) direct the Secretary to authorize specified county committees to reduce or waive penalties for unintentional violations; (2) provide that weight errors not exceeding one-tenth of one percent in the case of any marketing document shall not be considered violations except in cases of fraud or conspiracy; (3) permit the Secretary to exempt certain seed peanuts from marketing penalties; (4) penalize handlers for marketing peanuts in excess of the quantity, grade, or quality of quota levels; (5) change the deadline for contracting for additional peanuts from June 15 to April 15; (6) permit producers to redeem additional peanuts from loan at prices equal to or more than 105 percent of the loan level of quota peanuts; and (7) give sole authority to the area marketing associations for selling additional peanuts under loan when such peanuts are sold at prices not less than the Commodity Credit Corporation's minimum price. Extends through 1985: (1) specified reporting and recordkeeping requirements; and (2) preservation of unused allotments provisions. Extends the price support program for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Modifies such program to: (1) establish such levels at the Secretary's discretion, but not less than $650 per ton; (2) set forth factors to be considered by the Secretary in making any loan level adjustments; (3) prohibit the support price for additional peanuts from being set at a level that would incur losses for the Commodity Credit Corporation; (4) require storage loans and supervisory activities to be carried out by grower associations operated primarily for such purposes; and (5) direct the Secretary to require area marketing associations to establish recordkeeping procedures. Title VIII: Soybeans - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the soybean price support program under the category of "basic agricultural commodity." Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) 1982 soybean crop at 75 percent of the average U.S. price over a given period; and (2) 1983-1985 soybean crops at between 65-85 percent of such price. States that the level for the 1982-1985 crops shall not be less than $5.02 per bushel. States that soybeans are ineligible for the producer storage reserve program. Title IX: Grain Reserve Storage Facility Loans - Modifies the current wheat and feed grains producer storage program as follows: (1) directs the Secretary to set up a producer storage program for wheat and feed grains; (2) authorizes the Secretary to fix loan levels as necessary to encourage producer participation; (3) establishes the repayment period for such loans at not less than three years with an adjustable interest rate based upon the rate paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation; (4) sets the release price for a particular commodity at the average adjusted cost of production; (5) provides for storage payments to be made until the loan matures or until the commodity's market price is at least 115 percent of the release price; (6) authorizes the Secretary to require early repayment in cases of emergency, after sending notice of such a situation to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees; and (7) prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling wheat or feed grains at less than 130 percent of the release price whenever the storage program is in effect. Extends the farm storage facility loan program through 1985. Title X: Miscellaneous - Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1985. Amends the Wheat and Wheat Foods Research and Nutrition Education Act to provide penalties for violations of such Act. Repeals title XVIII (advisory committees) of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. Directs: (1) the Secretary to appoint a special task force to study the concept of farm income protection insurance; (2) such task force to report to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees within 18 months of enactment of this Act; and (3) such task force to be dissolved 40 days after submitting such report. Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to authorize State agencies to perform official inspections at export port locations under specified circumstances. Title XI: Agricultural Exports - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to establish in the U.S. Treasury an Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to make loans to foreign purchasers of U.S. agricultural commodities and for loans for related overseas facilities construction and acquisition. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports (beginning not later than December 31, 1982) to Congress regarding the Fund's operations. Dissolves such Fund effective October 1, 1985. Provides for a two-House veto of any bilateral international agreement (excluding treaties) which involves a commitment by the United States to assure access by foreign countries or instrumentalities to U.S. agricultural commodities on a commercial basis. Directs the Secretary to formulate a special export subsidy program to neutralize the effects of such foreign subsidies in non-U.S. markets. Sets forth the determinations which must be first made by the President before the Secretary may so act. Amends the Agricultural Trade Suspension Adjustment Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary to mitigate the adverse effects on agricultural prices generated by executive foreign policy or national security export controls. Sets forth formulae for determining such payments. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to extend international assistance programs under such Act through 1985. Title XII: Food Stamps - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to establish a food stamp purchase requirement. Exempts the elderly and the disabled from such requirement. Increases from 30 to 33 percent the assumed amount of income spent on food. Establishes penalties for abuses by coupon issuers. Excludes boarders from food stamp participation. Requires children and parents living together to apply as one household unless one of the parents is at least 60 years old. Eliminates the provision allowing food stamps to be used in authorized restaurants. Adjusts the cost of the Thrifty Food Plan on January 1 of each year to reflect cost increases for the 12 months preceding September 30. Permits the Secretary to make individual food need adjustments in such Plan. Permits low income energy assistance payments to be counted as income for purposes of determining food stamp benefits. Requires States to establish a workfare program as a condition for participation in the food stamp program. Eliminates inflation adjustments for household income computation. Disallows income deductions for household expenses paid by a third party. Increases the period of disqualification for State-determined fraud from three to 12 months. Establishes a minimum 12-month period of disqualification for food stamp coupon fraud. Requires repayment of double the value of fraudulently received coupons before a person is eligible to again participate in the program (currently liable for the value of fraudulently received coupons). Lowers the age of "dependent" children from 12 to six for work exemption purposes. Prohibits any non-participating household from becoming eligible for such program, or from increased benefits, because of a family member's going on strike. Disqualifies households (other than those with elderly or certain disabled members) if gross income exceeds: (1) one-twelfth of the nonfarm poverty level; and (2) for a household with income, 115 percent of such poverty level. Reduces the household school lunch allotment and the per meal value of the Thrifty Food Plan for a family of eight. Requires first-month benefits to be pro-rated as necessary. Eliminates: (1) the provision prohibiting food stamps from being counted as income for public assistance determinations; and (2) Federal funding under such Act for food stamp outreach activities. Limits the period for recovering wrongfully denied benefits to 45 days from the date such a request is received by the State agency. Increases funding authorization for fiscal year 1981, and authorizes specified maximum appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend specified commodities distribution programs through fiscal year 1985. Establishes penalties for fraudulent use of such commodities. Amends the Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1980 to repeal scheduled increases in dependent care deductions for working adults and medical deductions for the elderly and the disabled. Title XIII: Reauthorization of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 - Extends the terms of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences, and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board from five to ten years. Revises membership and reporting provisions. Exempts such Council from the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Creates an additional Assistant Secretary of Agriculture to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Extends the authorization of appropriations for competitive research grants through fiscal year 1987. Makes: (1) land grant college research foundations eligible for special grants; and (2) cooperative forestry schools and land grant colleges eligible for facilities grants. Amends the Research Facilities Act of 1963 to extend the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1987. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act to: (1) direct the Secretary to develop a higher education program in the food and agricultural sciences; (2) direct the Secretary of Education to transfer specified authority not already transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977; (3) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to colleges for food and agricultural sciences programs, and (4) make competitive grants for specialized programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for higher education grants through fiscal year 1987. Transfers specified teaching and related functions from the Secretary of Education to the Secretary of Agriculture. Extends the authorization of appropriations for alcohol and industrial hydrocarbon research grants through fiscal year 1987. Increases the maximum amount awardable to institutions in any one State. Establishes a distribution formula for the national education program. Extends the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board from five to ten years. Requires the Secretary to establish priority lists of animal health problems and to award grants on the basis of such priorities. Directs the Secretary to utilize institutions of higher education to develop linkages among such institutions, the Federal Government, and international research centers to improve worldwide food and agricultural progress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance (on a reimbursable basis) to U.S. institutions so involved. Extends authorizations of appropriations through fiscal year 1987 for: (1) agricultural research; (2) agricultural experimental stations; and (3) cooperative extension programs. Provides that funds made available by the Secretary under specified Acts shall not be subject to reduction for indirect costs incurred by the recipient. Amends the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 to direct the Secretary to appoint a 16 member forestry advisory council. Amends Federal law to make funds from custom duties on agricultural products available for food and agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to furnish excess Federal property to State and county extension services, agricultural experimental stations, and to land grant colleges. Title XIV: Resource Conservation - Directs the Secretary to establish a program for the conservation of soil, water, and related resources in special designated areas with soil and water management problems. Provides with regard to such program that: (1) a conservation plan shall be developed by the Secretary and the local soil and water conservation district; (2) such plan shall be the basis for contracts to pay landowners to make conservation-oriented cropping changes; (3) contracts shall be for a maximum length of ten years; (4) special areas may be designated for ten years following enactment of this Act; and (5) the Secretary shall report to Congress by January 1, 1986, and at five-year intervals thereafter. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Preservation Act to: (1) make all Indian tribes eligible sponsors of small watershed projects; (2) permit the Federal Government to share the costs of mitigating fish and wildlife losses resulting from such projects; and (3) raise the approval authority of the Secretary from $1,000 to $3,000. Permits energy developing components of projects under such Act and under title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to be considered as part of the cost-benefit ratio. Authorizes the Secretary to use volunteers for conservation work without regard to civil service requirements. Deems such volunteers to be Federal employees for purposes of injury and tort compensation. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Title XV: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective as of October 1, 1981, except as otherwise provided therein.