11.   The current Depression-era commodity subsidy program is only available to grain and cotton farmers.

12.   The USDA recently revamped its commodities program to include low-fat milk, leaner meats and canned fruit in natural juice instead of heavy syrup.

13.   There are some commodity programs that will go unscathed.

14.   They are provided to the state through the federal food commodities program.

15.   While some commodity programs, such as beef promotions, are separately authorized by federal law, the fruit programs were organized under general marketing rules.

16.   Southern peanut growers are at odds over what type of federal commodity program they need to sustain them during their transition from price supports to free trade.

17.   The Agriculture Department needs to improve its procedures for validating petitions for referenda on commodity promotion programs, a congressional study says.