The Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (P.L. 97-98) was the 4-year omnibus

Omnibus

Omnibus may refer to:Law* Omnibus bill, a single legislative document containing many laws or amendments* Omnibus spending bill, a single legislative document that sets the budget of many government departments* Omnibus clause* Omnibus hearing...

 farm bill that continued and modified commodity programs

Commodity programs

In United States federal agricultural policy, the term commodity programs is usually meant to include the commodity price and income support programs administered by the Farm Service Agency and financed by the Commodity Credit Corporation...

 through 1985. It set specific target price

Target price

Target price may mean different things:#The price at which a stockholder is willing to sell his/her stock.#The price at which a seller projects that a buyer will buy a product.----Target price ...

s for 4 years, eliminated rice

Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

 allotment

Allotment

Allotment may refer to:* Allotment , a small area of land, let out at a nominal yearly rent by local government or independent allotment associations, for individuals to grow their own food...

s and marketing quotas, lowered dairy

Dairy

A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a dedicated dairy farm or section of a multi-purpose farm that is concerned...

 supports, and made other changes affecting a wide range of USDA activities. The next year this farm bill was amend

Amend

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ed to freeze the dairy price support level

Dairy Price Support Program

The Dairy Price Support Program is the United States federal program that maintains a minimum farm price for milk used in the manufacture of dairy products. USDA indirectly assures a minimum price for milk by purchasing any cheddar cheese, nonfat dry milk, and butter offered to it by dairy...

 and mandate loan

Loan

A loan is a type of debt. Like all debt instruments, a loan entails the redistribution of financial assets over time, between the lender and the borrower....

 rates and acreage reserve provisions for the 1983 crops (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, P.L. 97-253). Again in 1984, amendments were adopted to freeze target price

Target price

Target price may mean different things:#The price at which a stockholder is willing to sell his/her stock.#The price at which a seller projects that a buyer will buy a product.----Target price ...

s, authorize paid land diversion for feed grain

Feed grain

Feed grain refers to any of several grains most commonly used for livestock feed, including corn, grain sorghum, oats, rye, and barley. These grains and the farms producing them historically have received federal commodity program support in the United States...

s, upland cotton, and rice, and provide a wheat

Wheat

Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

 payment-in-kind

Payment in kind

Payment in kind refers to payment for goods or services with a medium other than legal tender ....

 program for 1984 (Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984, P.L. 98-258).