USDA Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Milk Marketing Agreements Collection, 1933-1947

The USDA Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Milk Marketing Agreements Collection, 1933-1947, consists of proposed marketing agreements, supporting documents detailing the negotiations of the agreements, and background research and documentation for over 100 locations in the continental United States, including the Chicago area, New York Metropolitan area, the Greater Boston area, Washington, D.C., and others. The states that have at least one location with a milk marketing agreement nclude: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington (state), West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The states of Alaska, Hawaii, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming are not represented.

The proposed marketing agreements, 1933-1947, describe the purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 and contain copies of the contracts for producers and distributors tailored for each individual locale represented.

The supporting documents, 1933-1947, detail the various negotiations necessary between local producers and distributors and the USDA. These include tentative agreements, amendments to the agreements, and notices of hearings. Many of these documents were eventually signed by high-ranking USDA officials. Represented amongst the signatories are Secretaries of Agriculture: H.A. Wallace and Claude R. Wickard; 6 acting Secretaries of Agriculture: Harry L. Brown, Grover B. Hill, Rexford Tugwell, Paul H. Appleby, F.W. Reichelderfer, and M.L. Wilson; chief hearing clerk Ammon McClellan; acting chief hearing clerk, James K. Knudson; Dr. Clyde King, chief of the Dairy Section; and 2 acting chiefs of the Dairy Section: B.B. Derrick and J.H. Mason.

Included within the background research and documentation are monthly price reports, 1936-1940; state milk control acts, 1936-1940; economic briefs and statements, 1936-1940; text of speeches given by A.H. Lauterbach and Dr. E.W. Gaumnitz; legal documents regarding three cases where the milk agreements were challenged by individual producers in 1934, and two papers written in 1936, by E.W. Gaumnitz and O.M. Reed. One is titled, "The Theory of Milk Prices," and the second, "The Price Structure for Milk." Authors of economic briefs and statements include: P.L. Miller, H.I. Richards, W.G. Sullivan, J.R. Hanson, H.L. Forest, W.P. Sadler, E.E. Warner, Wayne F. Caskey, Andy W. Colebank, O.H. Hoffman, Jr., Robert C. Tetro, E.S. Harris, O.M. Reed, L.K. Wallace, C.W. Smith, and R.H. Farr.