---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6301"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6301"
heading: "Findings and declaration of policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6301"
units:
  - "Chapter 92 — Soybean Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information"
---

# §6301. Findings and declaration of policy

- (a) **Findings—** Congress finds that—
  - (1) [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) are an important source of nutritious foods that are a valuable part of the human diet and are an important feedstuff for the livestock industry;
  - (2) the production of [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) plays a significant role in the economy of the [United States](/usc/7/6302.md?p=19) in that [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) are produced by thousands of soybean [producers](/usc/7/6302.md?p=12), processed by numerous processing entities, and [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17) produced in the [United States](/usc/7/6302.md?p=19) are consumed by people and livestock throughout the [United States](/usc/7/6302.md?p=19) and foreign countries;
  - (3) [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17) should be readily available and marketed efficiently to ensure that consumers have an adequate supply of [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17) at a reasonable price;
  - (4) the maintenance and expansion of existing [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) and development of new [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) for [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17) are vital to the welfare of soybean [producers](/usc/7/6302.md?p=12) and processors and those concerned with [marketing](/usc/7/6302.md?p=8) [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17), as well as to the general economy of the [United States](/usc/7/6302.md?p=19), and are necessary to ensure the ready availability and efficient [marketing](/usc/7/6302.md?p=8) of [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17);
  - (5) there exist established [State](/usc/7/6302.md?p=19) and national organizations conducting soybean [promotion](/usc/7/6302.md?p=13), [research](/usc/7/6302.md?p=15), and consumer education programs that are valuable to the efforts of promoting the consumption of [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17);
  - (6) the cooperative development, financing, and implementation of a coordinated national program of soybean [promotion](/usc/7/6302.md?p=13), [research](/usc/7/6302.md?p=15), [consumer information](/usc/7/6302.md?p=4), and [industry information](/usc/7/6302.md?p=7) are necessary to maintain and expand existing [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) and develop new [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) for [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17); and
  - (7) [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17) move in interstate and foreign [commerce](/usc/7/6302.md?p=2), and [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17) that do not move in such channels of [commerce](/usc/7/6302.md?p=2) directly burden or affect interstate [commerce](/usc/7/6302.md?p=2) in [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17).
- (b) **Policy—** Congress declares that it is in the public interest to authorize the establishment, through the exercise of the powers provided in this chapter, of an orderly procedure for developing, financing through assessments on domestically-produced [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18), and implementing a program of [promotion](/usc/7/6302.md?p=13), [research](/usc/7/6302.md?p=15), [consumer information](/usc/7/6302.md?p=4), and [industry information](/usc/7/6302.md?p=7) designed to strengthen the soybean industry’s position in the marketplace, to maintain and expand existing domestic and foreign [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) and uses for [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17), and to develop new [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) and uses for [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18) and [soybean products](/usc/7/6302.md?p=17).
- (c) **Construction—** Nothing in this chapter may be construed to provide for the control of production or otherwise limit the right of individual [producers](/usc/7/6302.md?p=12) to produce [soybeans](/usc/7/6302.md?p=18).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–624, title XIX, § 1966, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3881.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 101–624, title XIX, § 1965, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3881, provided that: “This subtitle [subtitle E (§§ 1965–1976) of title XIX of Pub. L. 101–624, enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Soybean Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act’.”