---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1637"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1637"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1637"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Distribution and Marketing of Agricultural Products"
  - "Subchapter III — Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting"
---

# §1637. Purpose


The purpose of this subchapter is to establish a program of information regarding the marketing of [dairy products](/usc/7/1637a.md?p=1) that—

- (1) provides information that can be readily understood by producers and other [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) participants, including information with respect to prices, quantities sold, and inventories of [dairy products](/usc/7/1637a.md?p=1);
- (2) improves the price and supply reporting services of the Department of Agriculture; and
- (3) encourages competition in the marketplace for [dairy products](/usc/7/1637a.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 966, title II, § 271, as added Pub. L. 106–532, § 2, Nov. 22, 2000, 114 Stat. 2541.)