---
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"
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/7/1471g.md?p=b-1) engaged, as original [producers](/usc/7/6802.md?p=4-A-iii-III-bb) of [agricultural products](/usc/7/451.md), such as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers, acting together in associations, corporate or otherwise, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in interstate and/or foreign commerce such products of [persons](/usc/7/1471g.md?p=b-1) so engaged, may acquire, exchange, interpret, and disseminate past, present, and prospective crop, market, statistical, economic, and other similar information by direct exchange between such [persons](/usc/7/1471g.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.)