---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 455"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "455"
heading: "Dissemination of crop, market, etc., information by cooperative marketing associations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/455"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Cooperative Marketing"
---

# §455. Dissemination of crop, market, etc., information by cooperative marketing associations


[Persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) engaged, as original producers of agricultural products, such as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers, acting together in associations, corporate or otherwise, in collectively processing, preparing for [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1), handling, and marketing in interstate and/or foreign commerce such products of [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) so engaged, may acquire, exchange, interpret, and disseminate past, present, and prospective crop, [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1), statistical, economic, and other similar information by direct exchange between such [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1), and/or such associations or federations thereof, and/or by and through a common agent created or selected by them.


## Source credit

(July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 5, 44 Stat. 803.)