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Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

By Government of the United States
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It is the purpose of this title: to authorize the use of binding production flexibility contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection requirements;
to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available for certain crops; to improve the operation of farm programs for milk, peanuts, and sugar; and to establish a commission to undertake a comprehensive
review of past and future production agriculture in the United States.