The Agricultural Act of 1949 (Pub.L. 89-349) is a United States federal law that is known as the "permanent legislation" of U.S. agricultural policy and is, in its amended form, still in effect. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal Law of the United States. ...

The Act was enacted on October 31, 1949. October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 61 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

416 (b)

Section 416 (b) of the 1949 Agriculture Act provides for the first time permanent legal basis by which surplus food can be donated to friendly overseas countries as development aid purposes. This is a principle means, still in use today by which surplus food can be donated to friendly countries directly to the reciptant national government or to an agreed NGO (PVO) or international body such as WFP to execute the program on behalf of USDA and the nost government. The World Food Programme (WFP) is an agency of the United Nations which distributes food commodities to support development projects, to long-term refugees and displaced persons and as emergency food assistance in situations of natural and man-made disasters. ...

Donation of surplus commodities owned by the CCC (Commodity Credit Corporation) to developing nations and friendly countries Donated food must not affect existing food programmes or normal commercial sales. The Commodity Credit Corporation, or CCC, is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture created on October 17, 1933. ...

CCC is the US government agency by which purchase the surplus food from the market.

Food can either be use directly or be monetised in the receipant country's market. Money gained from the sale can be then put to use on a pre agreed program.

The type of surplus food can varied but what is available will depends on last year's harvest in the US. Typical donations includes:

- Wheat (Varieties of wheat such as DRS, HRW, SWW and a type of ready to eat mix of Wheat soy blend) Delayed Reaction Syndrome, where a person has a long time to respond or react to an event. ... This page is about the Egyptian deity. ...

- Corn (Corn soy blend, Instant Corn Soy milk, Corn meal etc Look up corn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Cornmeal is dried, ground maize corn. ...

- Flour (All purpose flour, bread flour, what flour etc) Look up flour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

- Milk Powder- Peas, Beans and lentils

- Rice Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Brown basmati rice Terrace of paddy fields in Yunnan Province, southern China. ...

- Soy bean Binomial name Glycine max Soybeans (US) or soya beans (UK) (Glycine max) are a high-protein legume (Family Fabaceae) grown as food for both humans and livestock. ...

- Tallow Tallow is rendered beef or mutton fat, processed from suet. ...

- Vegetable Oil

- Wood Trunks A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood is a solid material derived from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ...

- Canned pink salmon (depending on season!)

External links

• Text of the Act, from senate.gov
• Information about U.S. federal agricultural acts, from cornell.edu
• Information from the USDA