Storage Facilities for Agricultural Commodities

Organizations that provide access to grain elevators, tobacco warehouses, feed mills and other storage facilities that are used to house crops while they are being processed for human, animal or industrial use. Included are government programs that handle the acquisition, procurement, storage, disposition, and distribution of commodities as means of achieving domestic farm price support objectives, producing a uniform regulatory system for the storage of agricultural products, and ensuring the timely provision of food products for domestic and international food assistance programs and market development programs.