Capper–Volstead Act

Capper–Volstead Act
Long title	An Act To authorize association of producers of agricultural products.
Enacted by	the 67th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L. 67–146
Statutes at Large	Sess. II, ch. 57, 42 Stat. 388–389
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 2373 by Andrew Volstead (R–MN) on ?; Committee consideration by ?; Passed the House on May 4, 1921 (295-49); Passed the Senate on February 8, 1922 (58-1) with amendment; House agreed to Senate amendment on February 11, 1922 (276-8); Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on February 18, 1922;
United States Supreme Court cases
	Case-Swayne Co. v. Sunkist Growers, Inc., 389 U.S. 384 (1967); National Broiler Marketing Assn. v. U.S, 436 U.S. 816 (1978)

The Capper–Volstead Act, officially the Co-operative Marketing Associations Act, was adopted by the United States Congress on February 18, 1922. It gave associations of agriculturalists broad exemptions from antitrust laws. It is therefore sometimes called the Magna Carta of the American farming cooperatives.