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RCED-94-244R 1 (1994-06-08)

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GAO          United States
             General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Resources, Community, and
             Economic Development Division

             B-257392


             June 8, 1994


             The Honorable Dale L. Bumpers
             Chairman
             The Honorable Thad Cochran
             Ranking Minority Member
             Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural
                Development, and Related Agencies
              Committee on Appropriations
              United States Senate

              The Honorable Richard J. Durbin
              Chairman
              The Honorable Joe Skeen
              Ranking Minority Member
              Subcommittee on Agriculture,
                Rural Development, Food and Drug
                Administration, and Related Agencies
              Committee on Appropriations
              House of Representatives

              As requested by the Senate and House conferees for the U.S.
              Department of Agriculture's (USDA) fiscal year 1994
              appropriations act (P.L. 103-111), we examined (1) the
              importance of honeybees to the pollination of crops and (2)
              the relationship between the price support program for honey
              and the pollination of crops by honeybees. In preparing
              this correspondence, we updated information contained in a
              report we issued in 1985.'

              The price support program for honey was enacted as a part of
              the Agriculture Act of 1949 for the specific purpose of
              ensuring the continuing presence of adequate pollinators for
              the nation's crops. The program was to remain in place
              until crop producers would adequately compensate beekeepers
              for providing pollination services. From the inception of
              the program through 1993, beekeepers could obtain
              nonrecourse loans from USDA on the honey they produced and


              'Federal Price Support for Honey Should Be Phased Out,
              (GAO/RCED-85-107, Aug. 19, 1985).


GAO/RCED-94-244R, Honey Program

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