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

# §1421d. Commodity reports

- (a) **Crop reports—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture (hereafter in this section referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2)”) shall gather data from producers to be used to develop crop reports to be distributed by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) during the growing season. The report shall contain statements of the conditions of those crops by [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating such reports.
- (b) **Special reports—**
  - (1) **In general—** In addition to the reports compiled pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall annually survey producers for information for reports regarding supply, acreage, production, disposition, and prices for the following commodities as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2):
    - (A) 25 fresh [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) vegetables;
    - (B) 3 processing vegetables;
    - (C) 6 fruits and nuts;
    - (D) 17 forage and turf seeds;
    - (E) 50 vegetable seeds; and
    - (F) maple syrup.
  - (2) **Administrative—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall annually prepare a report containing results of the surveys described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) in such [States](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2). Such reports shall be submitted to and officially approved by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture before being issued or published.
- (c) **Tree inventories—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall survey producers for information for reports regarding fruit and nut tree inventories. Such surveys and reports shall be conducted, printed, and distributed on a regular basis every 3 to 5 years as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2). Reports shall be submitted to and officially approved by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) before being issued or published.
- (d) **Omitted—**
- (e) **Authorization—** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–624, title XXV, § 2514, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4074.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### 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.

Section is comprised of section 2514 of Pub. L. 101–624. Subsec. (d) of section 2514 of Pub. L. 101–624 repealed section 411a of this title.