Sec. 351. legislative findings
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## Sec. 351 legislative findings **[**[7 U.S.C. 1351](/us/usc/t7/s1351)**]** ###
(a)The marketing of rice constitutes one of the great basic industries of the United States with ramifying activities which directly affect interstate and foreign commerce at every point, and stable conditions therein are necessary to the general welfare. Rice produced for market is sold on a Nation-wide market, and, with its products, moves almost wholly in interstate and foreign commerce from the producer to the ultimate consumer. The farmers producing such commodity are subject in their operations to uncontrollable natural causes, in many cases such farmers carry on their farming operations on borrowed money or leased lands, and are not so situated as to be able to organize effectively, as can labor and industry, through unions and corporations enjoying Government sanction and protection for joint economic action. For these reasons, among others, the farmers are unable without Federal assistance to control effectively the orderly marketing of such commodity with the result that abnormally excessive supplies thereof are produced and dumped indiscriminately on the Nation-wide market. ###
(b)The disorderly marketing of such abnormally excessive supplies affects, burdens, and obstructs interstate and foreign commerce by
(1)materially affecting the volume of such commodity marketed therein,
(2)disrupting the orderly marketing of such commodity therein,
(3)reducing the prices for such commodity with consequent injury and destruction of such commerce in such commodity, and
(4)causing a disparity between the prices for such commodity in interstate and foreign commerce and industrial products therein, with a consequent diminution of the volume of interstate and foreign commerce in industrial products. ###
(c)Whenever an abnormally excessive supply of rice exists, the marketing of such commodity by the producers thereof directly and substantially affects interstate and foreign commerce in such commodity and its products, and the operation of the provisions of this part becomes necessary and appropriate in order to promote, foster, and maintain an orderly flow of such supply in interstate and foreign commerce. ### PART VII FLEXIBLE MARKETING ALLOTMENTS FOR SUGAR
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