---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2271"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2271"
heading: "Marketing education programs for small and medium size family farm operations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2271"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2271. Marketing education programs for small and medium size family farm operations


In carrying out marketing research and education programs, the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture shall take such steps as may be necessary to increase the efforts of the Department of Agriculture in providing marketing education programs for [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) engaged in small and medium size family farm operations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, § 1445, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1327.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.