---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1421a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1421a"
heading: "Financial impact study"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1421a"
units:
  - "Chapter 35A — Price Support of Agricultural Commodities"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1421a. Financial impact study

- (a) **Study—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture shall conduct an annual study of the financial impact of the support levels established and announced by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) under programs contained in the Agricultural Act of 1949 [[7 U.S.C. 1421](/usc/7/1421.md) et seq.] (hereafter in this section referred to as “programs”), including a study of the effect of the support levels on the ability of producers to meet their financial obligations (with special emphasis on borrowers from the Farmers Home Administration and the Farm Credit System).
- (b) **Report—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall annually prepare a report containing the results of the study and submit the report to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, not later than the date of the final announcement for the programs by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) for any 1 year.
- (c) **Informational purposes—** The study under this section (including the study of the effect of the support levels on the ability of producers to meet their financial obligations) shall be only for informational purposes and for Congressional oversight and shall not give rise to any cause of action, be a basis for, or be used as evidence in support of, any claim or right of any [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1), including farmers and borrowers, in any administrative or judicial proceeding.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–624, title XI, § 1147, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3516.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Agricultural Act of 1949, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, 63 Stat. 1051, which is classified principally to this chapter (§ 1421 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, and not as part of the Agricultural Act of 1949 which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of the 1949 Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective beginning with 1991 crop of an agricultural commodity, with provision for prior crops, see section 1171 of Pub. L. 101–624, set out as a note under section 1421 of this title.