7 U.S.C. § 1334a — Omitted

Page 630 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 1334a allotments for the 1966 crop of wheat to be established in accordance with the provisions of law in effect prior to Nov. 3, 1965. 1963 DIVERTED WHEAT ACREAGE PROGRAM Pub. L. 87–703, title III, § 307, Sept. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 615, provided that payments were authorized to be made in cash or wheat by the Commodity Credit Cor- poration to producers on any farm, except farms with new farm wheat allotments, if marketing quotas were in effect for the 1963 wheat crop, if they diverted cer- tain acreage from wheat production, and if they de- voted such acreage to conservation uses; that such acreage was to be in addition to acreage diverted to conservation uses for which payment was made under other federal programs although cost-sharing payments under the agricultural conservation program or the Great Plains program were not precluded; that advance payments up to fifty per cent could be made; that wheat stored to avoid a marketing quota penalty was not to be released for underplanting based on such di- verted acreage; that the Secretary could promulgate regulations; and that the Commodity Credit Corpora- tion could use its capital funds and assets to make pay- ments. APPLICABILITY OF 1963 DIVERTED WHEAT ACREAGE PROGRAM TO INCREASED ALLOTMENT FARMS Pub. L. 87–703, title III, § 308(b), Sept. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 618, provided that the special wheat program formu- lated under section 307 of Pub. L. 87–703 [set out above] was not applicable to any farm receiving an additional acreage allotment for wheat in short supply under sec- tion 334(i) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended [subsec. (i) of this section]. 1962 DIVERTED WHEAT ACREAGE PROGRAM Pub. L. 87–128, title I, § 124, Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 297, as amended by Pub. L. 87–410, Mar. 3, 1962, 76 Stat. 19; Pub. L. 87–451, §§ 1–3, May 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 70, provided that producers on any farm, except farms with a new farm wheat allotment, were entitled to payments if marketing quotas were in effect for the 1962 wheat crop, if they diverted certain acreage from wheat pro- duction, and if such diverted acreage were devoted to conservation uses; that the payments were to be made by the Commodity Credit Corporation in cash or wheat and computed as therein provided; that additional acre- age could be diverted and payments made with respect thereto; that any diverted acreage was to be in addition to acreage diverted for conservation uses for which payment is made under any other federal program ex- cept that cost-sharing payments under the agricultural conservation program or the Great Plains program were not precluded; that advance payments up to 50 per cent could be made; that wheat stored to avoid a mar- keting quota penalty was not to be released for under- planting based on such diverted acreage; that the Sec- retary could promulgate regulations; and that the Commodity Credit Corporation could use its capital funds and assets to make payments. ACREAGE ALLOTMENT FOR 1954 CROP Act July 14, 1953, ch. 194, § 4(a), 67 Stat. 152, provided that the National acreage allotment for the 1954 crop of wheat shall not be less than sixty-two million acres. ACREAGE ALLOTMENT FOR 1950 CROP Act Aug. 29, 1949, ch. 518, § 5, 63 Stat. 677, provided that the farm acreage allotment of wheat for 1950 crop for any farm was not to be less than the larger of— (A) 50 per centum of— (1) the acreage on the farm seeded for the produc- tion of wheat in 1949, and (2) any other acreage seeded for the production of wheat in 1948 which was fallowed and from which no crop was harvested in the calendar year 1949, or (B) 50 per centum of— (1) the acreage on the farm seeded for the produc- tion of wheat in 1948, and (2) any other acreage seeded for the production of wheat in 1947 which was fallowed and from which no crop was harvested in the calendar year 1948, adjusted in the same ratio as the national average seedings for the production of wheat during the ten cal- endar years 1939–1948 (adjusted as provided by this chapter) bore to the national acreage allotment for wheat for the 1950 crop: Provided, That no acreage was to be included under (A) or (B) which the Secretary, by appropriate regulations, determined would become an undue erosion hazard under continued farming. To the extent that the allotment to any county was insuffi- cient to provide for such minimum farm allotments, the Secretary was to allot such county such additional acreage (which was to be in addition to the county, State, and national acreage allotments otherwise pro- vided for under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended [this chapter]) as was necessary in order to provide for such minimum farm allotments. EMERGENCY FARM ACREAGE ALLOTMENT Act Feb. 28, 1945, ch. 15, 59 Stat. 9, provided for farm acreage allotment during national emergency pro- claimed by the President on Sept. 8, 1939, and May 27, 1941. Such emergencies terminated on July 25, 1947, by the provisions of Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, § 3, 61 Stat. 451. § 1334a. Omitted Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section, act Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title III, § 314, 68 Stat. 905, related to 1955 wheat acreage allotment in areas where a summer fallow crop rotation of wheat was a common practice. § 1334a–1. Summer fallow farms; upper limit on required set aside acreage for 1971 through 1977 wheat, feed grain, and cotton crops Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 1971 through 1977 crops of wheat, feed grains and cotton, if in any year at least 55 per centum of the cropland acreage on an estab- lished summer fallow farm is devoted to a sum- mer fallow use, no further acreage shall be re- quired to be set aside under the wheat, feed grain and cotton programs for such year. (Pub. L. 91–524, title IV, § 410, Nov. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1367; Pub. L. 93–86, § 1(17), Aug. 10, 1973, 87 Stat. 230.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 1970, and not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which comprises this chapter. AMENDMENTS 1973—Pub. L. 93–86 substituted ‘‘1971 through 1977’’ for ‘‘1971, 1972, and 1973’’. § 1334b. Designation of States outside commer- cial wheat-producing areas If the acreage allotment for any State for any crop of wheat is twenty-five thousand acres or less, the Secretary, in order to promote efficient administration of this chapter and the Agricul- tural Act of 1949 [7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.], may des- ignate such State as outside the commercial wheat-producing area for the marketing year for such crop. If such State is so designated, acreage