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> For some reason I associate the 'tins' with the commodity food program which I seem to recall terminated in the early 1980's.
Exactly, I was selling honey to the govt. I am pretty sure they were the ones who stopped accepting 5 gal cans. They were storing millions of pounds of honey for years and the cans weren't good for that. At the time my honey house was out in the back country. I used to put the honey in pails and take it our workshop which was in a neighborhood, near the beach. There, I transferred the honey into drums. I had a small electric barrel loader (Big Joe) which I used to load the drums into the truck to ship it to the govt. warehouse in LA. I had to drive up there in my own pickup truck to sign the papers and watch my 40 or so barrels vanish into a huge warehouse with thousands of drums of forfeited honey. Reminded me of the scene at the end of "The Raiders of the Lost Ark," where they put the Ark among thousands of other crates of "top secret" items. One of the most discouraging experiences of my life.
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The honey price support program was first created by the Agricultural Act of 1949
(P.L. 81-439) to provide market price stability for honey producers and to encourage
maintenance of sufficient bee populations for pollination. It was repealed by the Federal
Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-127) following several
years of suspension by appropriations laws. Limited assistance in the form of recourse
loans was restored for the 1998 and 1999 honey crops. More marketing loan program
support was approved for 2000, but funding was not provided for the 2001 honey crop.
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171) restored marketing assistance loan program benefits
for crop years 2002-2007. With the program expiring at the end of 2007, its future may
be determined by the anticipated 2007 farm bill. CRS Report for Congress. October 4, 2006
PLB
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