---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2209f"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2209f"
heading: "Restriction on commodity purchase program payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2209f"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2209f. Restriction on commodity purchase program payments


On and after October 28, 2000, none of the funds made available to the Department of Agriculture shall be used to carry out any commodity purchase program that would prohibit eligibility or participation by farmer-owned cooperatives.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title VII, § 725], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–32.)