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The Food and Agricultural Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89-321, 79 Stat. 1187), the first multiyear farm legislation, provided for four year commodity programs for wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton. It was extended for one more year through 1970 (P.L. 90 559). It authorized a Class I milk base plan for the 75 federal milk marketing orders, as well as a long term diversion of cropland under a Cropland Adjustment Program. It also continued payment and diversion programs for feed grains and cotton, and marketing certificate and diversion programs for wheat.
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79 STAT. ] PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 1187
Public Law 89-321
AN A C T November 3, 1955
To maintain farm income, to stabilize prices and assure adequate supplies of ["• R- 98ii]
agricultural commodities, to reduce surpluses, lower Government costs and
promote foreign trade, to afford greater economic opportunity in r u r a l areas,
and for other purposes.
Be if enacted hy the Senate and House of RepTe-sentative>^ of the
Vnited States of Amer'tca in Congress assembled^ That this Act may food and Agri.
be cited as the "Food and Agriculture Act of 19(>5". '^"""'^ ^^^ °^
1965.
TITLE I—DAIRY
SEC. 101. The Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and
amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as
amended, is further amended by striking in subparagraph (B) of
subsection 8c(5) all of clause (d) and inserting in lieu thereof a new ^9 stat. 753.
clause (d) to read as follows: ' ""^^ '"'^''^
" ( d ) a further adjustment, equitably to apportion the total
value of the milk purchased by any handler, or by all handlers,
among producers and associations of producers, on the basis of
their marketings of milk, which may be adjusted to reflect sales
of such milk by any handler or by all handlers in any use classi-
fication or classifications, during a representative period of time
which need not be limited to one year. In the event a producer
holding a base allocated under this clause (d) shall reduce his
marketings, such reduction shall not adversely affect liis history
of production and marketing for the determination of future
bases. Allocations to producers under this clause (d) may be
transferable under an order on such terms and conditions as may
be prescribed if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that
transferability will be in the best interest of the public, existing
producers, and prospective new producers. Any increase in class
one base resulting from enlarged or increased consumption and
any producer class one bases forfeited or surrendered shall first
be made available to new producers and to the alleviation of hard-
ship and inequity among producers. In the case of any producei-
who during any accounting period delivers a portion of his milk
to persons not fully regiilated bv the order, provision may be made
for reducing the allocation o£ or payments to be received by,
any such producer under this clause (d) to compensate for any
marketings of milk to such other persons for such period or
periods as necessarv' to insure equitable participation in market-
ings among all producers";
and by adding at the end of said subparagraph (B) the following:
''Xotwithstanding the provisions of section 8c(12) and the last sen-
tence of section 8c(19) of this Act, order provisions under (d) above 75 stat. 305.
shall not become eff'ective in any marketing order unless separately
approved by producers in a referendum in which each individual
producer shall have one vote and may be terminated separately when-
ever the Secretary makes a determination with respect to such pro-
visions as is provided for the termination of an order in subparagraph
8c(16)(B). Disapproval or termination of such order provisions
shall not be considered disapproval of the order or of other terms of
the order."
SEC. 102. Such Act is further amended (a) by adding to subsection
8c(5) the following new paragraph: "'(H) Marketing orders appli-
cable to milk and its |)roducts may be limited in api)lication to milk
used for manufacturing.": and (b) by amending subsection 8c(18) by 62 stat. 1258.
;idding after the woi'ds "marketing area" wherever they <KCUI- the
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words "or, in the case of orders applying only to manufacturing milk,
the production area".
Termination.
SEC. 103. The provisions of this title shall not be effective after
December 31, 1969.
Producer han-
dlers of milk, SEC. 104. The legal status of producer handlers of milk under the
legal status?' provlslous of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and
amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as
5o*ltat^'^'246^' amended, shall be the same subsequent to the adoption of the amend-
7 use 601* ments made by this title as it was prior thereto.
notes, 674 note.
TITLE II—WOOL
Price supports. g^^ gQl. The National Wool Act of 1954, as amended, is amended,
as follows:
75^st^at^*"3o\^°' (1) By deleting from section 703 "March 31,1966" and inserting in
7 use 1782. lieu thereof "December 31, 1969".
(2) By changing the period at the end of the third sentence of sec-
tion 703 to a colon and inserting the following:
''''Provided further^ That the support price for shorn wool for the
1966 and each subsequent marketing year shall be determined by
multiplying 62 cents by the ratio of (i^ the average of the parity index
(the index of prices paid by farmers, including commodities and serv-
ices, interest, taxes, and farm wage rates, as defined in section 301
"us*c*"im °' (a) (1) (C) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended)
for the three calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year
in which such price support is determined and announced to (ii) the
average parity index for the three calendar years 1958,1959, and 1960,
and rounding the resulting amount to the nearest full cent."
(3) By deleting the fourth sentence of section 703.
T I T L E I I I — F E E D GRAINS
Vvsc\llt' SEC. 301. Section 105 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended,
note. is amended by adding the following new subsection (e) :
"(e) F o r the 1966 through 1969 crops of feed grains, the Secretary
shall require, as a condition of eligibility for price support on the crop
of any feed grain which is included in any acreage diversion program
formulated under section 16 (i) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic
Post, p. 1190.
Allotment Act, as amended, that the producer shall participate in
the diversion program to the extent prescribed by the Secretary, and,
if no diversion program is in effect for any crop, he may require as a
condition of eligibility for price support on such crop of feed grains
that the producer shall not exceed his feed grain base: Provided^ That
the acreage on any farm which is diverted from the production of feed
grains pursuant to a contract hereafter entered into under the Crop-
Post, p. 1206. land Adjustment Program shall be deemed to be acreage diverted from
the production of feed grains for purposes of meeting the foregoing
requirements for eligibility for price support: Provided fwther^ T h a t
the Secretary may provide that no producer of malting barley shall
be required as a condition of eligibility for price support for barley
to participate in the acreage diversion program for feed grains if such
producer has previously produced a malting variety of barley, plants
barley only of an acceptable malting variety for harvest, does not
knowingly devote an acreage on the farm to barley in excess of 110 per
centum of the average acreage devoted on the farm to barley in 1959
and 1960, does not Imowingly devote an acreage on the farm to com
and grain sorghums in excess of the acreage devoted on the farm to
com and grain sorghums in 1959 and 1960, and does not devote any
acreage devoted to the production of oats and rye in 1959 and 1960
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to the production of wheat pursuant to the provisions of section 328
of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962. Such portion of the sup- y^rs^c'ia^qc
port price for any feed grain included in the acreage diversion pro-
gram as the Secretary determines desirable to assure that the benefits
of the price-support and diversion programs inure primarily to those
producers who cooperate in reducing their acreages of feed grains
shall be made available to producers through payments-in-kind. Such
payments-in-kind shall be made available on the maximum permitted
acreage, or the Secretary may make the same total amount available
on a smaller acreage or acreages at a higher rate or rates. The number
of bushels of such feed grain on which such payments-in-kind shall
be made shall be determined by multiplying that part of the actual
acreage of such feed grain planted on the farm for harvest on which
the Secretary makes such payments available by the farm projected
yield per acre: Provided^ That for purposes of such payments, the
Secretary may permit producers of feed grains to have acreage devoted
to soybeans considered as devoted to the production of feed grains to
such extent and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary
determines will not impair the effective operation of the price support
program: Provided further^ That for purposes of such payments, pro-
ducers on any farm who have planted not less than 90 per centum of
the acreage of feed grains permitted to be planted shall be deemed to
have planted the entire acreage permitted. Notwithstanding the
provisions of subsection ( a ) , that portion of the support price which
is made available through loans and purchases for the 1966 through
1969 crops may be reduced below the loan level for the 1965 crop by
such amounts and in such stages as may be necessary to promote
increased participation in the feed grain program, taking into account
increases m yields, but so as not to disrupt the feed grain and live-
stock economy: Provided^ That this authority shall not be construed
to modify or affect the Secretary's discretion to maintain or increase
total price support levels to cooperators. An acreage on the farm
which the Secretary finds was not planted to feed grains because of
drought, flood, or other natural disaster shall be deemed to be an actual
acreage of feed grains planted for harvest for purposes of such pay-
ments provided such acreage is not subsequently planted to any other
income-producing crop during such year. The Secretary may make
not to exceed 50 per centum of any payments hereunder to producers
in advance of determination of performance. Payments-in-kind shall
be made through the issuance of negotiable certificates which the
Commodity Credit Corporation shall redeem for feed grains (such
feed grains to be valued by the Secretary at not less than the current
support price made available through loans and purchases, plus rea-
sonable carrying charges) in accordance with regulations prescribed
by the Secretary and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Commodity Credit Corporation shall, in accordance with regulations
prescribed by the Secretary, assist the producer in the marketing of
such certificates. The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of such
certificates among producers on the farm on the basis of their respec-
tive shares in the feed grain crop produced on the farm, or the pro-
ceeds therefrom, except that in any case in which the Secretary
determines that such basis would not be fair and equitable, the Secre-
tary shall provide for such sharing on such other basis as he may
determine to be fair and equitable. If the operator of the farm elects
to participate in the acreage diversion program, price support for feed
grains included in the program shall be made available to the pro-
ducers on such farm only if such producers divert from the production
of such feed grains, in accordance with the provisions of such program,
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an acreage on the farm equal to the number of acres which such oper-
ator agrees to divert, and the agreement shall so provide. In any case
in which the failure of a producer to comply fully with the terms and
conditions of the programs formulated under this subsection (e) and
77 Stat. 44. subsectlou (d) of this section preclude the making of payments-in-
note"^*^ ^'*'*^ kind, the Secretary may, nevertheless, make such payments-in-kind
in such amounts as he determines to l>e equitable in relation to the
seriousness of the default."
SEC. 302. Section 16 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot-
49 Stat. 163, ment Act, as amended, is amended by adding the following new
^\\^"usc59op. subsection:
" (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
"(1) For the 1966 through 1969 crops of feed grains, if the
Secretary determines that the total supply of feed grains will,
in the absence of an acreage diversion program, likely be exces-
sive, taking into account the need for an adequate carryover to
maintain reasonable and stable supplies and prices of feed grains
and to meet any national emergency, he may formulate and carry
out an acreage diversion program for feed grains, w^ithout regard
to provisions which would be applicable to the regular agricul-
tural conservation program, under which, subject to such terms
Conservation and couditlons as the Secretary determines, conservation payments
paymen s. shall be made to producers who divert acreage from the produc-
tion of feed grains to an approved conservation use and increase
their average acreage of cropland devoted in 1959 and 1960 to
designated soil-conserving crops or practices including summer
fallow and idle land by an equal amount. Payments shall be
made at such rate or rates as the Secretary determines will pro-
vide producers with a fair and reasonable return for the acreage
diverted, but not in excess of 50 per centum of the estimated basic
county support rate, including the lowest rate of payment-in-
kind, on the normal production of the acreage diverted from
the commodity on the farm based on tlie farm projected yield
per acre. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Secre-
tary may permit all or any part of sucli diverted acreage to be
devoted to the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower,
castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, and flaxseed,
if he determines that such production of the commodity is needed
to provide an adequate supply, is not likely to increase the cost
of the price support program, and will not adversely affect farm
income subject to the condition that payment with respect to
diverted acreage devoted to any such crop shall be at a rate deter-
mined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable, taking into
consideration the use of such acreage for the pi'oduction of such
crops, but in no event shall tlie payment exceed one-half the rate
which otherwise would be applicable if such acreage were devoted
"Feed grains." to conservatlon uses. The term 'feed grains' means corn, grain
sorghums, and, if designated by the Secretary, barley, and if for
any crop the producer so requests for purposes of having acreage
devoted to the production of wheat considered as devoted to the
production of feed grains, pursuant to the ]>rovisions of section
76^|tat.^63L 328 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962, the term 'feed
7 u 1339c. grains' shall include oats and rye and barley if not designated
by the Secretary as provided above: Provided. That acreages
of corn, grain sorghums, and, if designated by the Secretary, bar-
ley, shall not be planted in lieu of acreages of oats and rye and
barley if not designated by the Secretary as provided above:
Provided further. That tlie acreage devoted to the production of
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wheat shall not be considered as an acreage of feed grains for
purposes of establishing the feed grain base acreage for the farm
for subsequent crops. Such feed grain diversion program shall
require the producer to take such measures as the Secretary may
deem appropriate to keep such diverted acreage free from erosion,
insects, weeds, and rodents. The acreage eligible for partici-
pation in the program shall be such acreage (not to exceed 50
per centum of the average acreage on the farm devoted to feed
grains in the crop years 1959 and 1960 or twenty-five acres, which-
ever is greater) as the Secretary determines necessary to achieve
the acreage reduction goal for the crop. Payments shall be made
in kind. The acreage of wheat produced on the farm during
the crop years 1959, 1960, and 1961, pursuant to the exemption
provided in section 335(f) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
of 1938, as amended, prior to its repeal by the Food and Agricul- 71 stat. 477.
ture Act of 1962, in excess of the small farm base acreage for
wheat established under section 335 of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, may be taken into consideration 5^us*c*'i3^3^5^"
in establishing the feed grain base acreage for the farm. The
Secretary may make such adjustments in acreage as he deter-
mines necessary to correct for abnormal factors affecting produc-
tion, and to give due consideration to tillable acreage, crop-rota-
tion practices, types of soil, soil and water conservation measures,
and topography. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
subsection (i) (1), the Secretary may, upon unanimous request of
the State committee established pursuant to section 8(b) of the
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, i^uscs^^'h
adjust the feed grain bases for farms within any State or county
to the extent he determines such adjustment to be necessary in
order to establish fair and equitable feed grain bases for farms
within such State or county. The Secretary may make not to
exceed 50 per centum of any payments to producers in advance
of determination of performance. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this subsection, barley shall not be included in the
program for a producer of malting barley exempted pursuant
to section 105(e) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, who partici- ^"'*' P- ^^^S-
pates only with respect to corn and grain sorghums and does not
knowingly devote an acreage on the farm to barley in excess of
110 per centum of the average acreage devoted on the farm to
barley in 1959 and 1960.
"(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection,
not to exceed 1 per centum of the estimated total feed grain bases
for all farms in a State for any year may be reserved from the feed
grain bases established for farms in the State for apportionment
to farms on which there were no acreages devoted to feed grains
in the crop years 1959 and 1960 on the basis of the following fac-
tors : Suitability of the land for the production of feed grains, the
past experience of the farm operator in the production of feed
grains, the extent to which the farm operator is dependent on
income from farming for his livelihood, the production of feed
grains on other farms owned, operated, or controlled by the farm
operator, and such other factors as the Secretary determines
should be considered for the purpose of establishing fair and
equitable feed grain bases. An acreage equal to the feed grain
base so established for each farm shall be deemed to have been
devoted to feed grains on the farm in each of the crop years 1959
and 1960 for purposes of this subsection except that producers on
such farm shall not be eligible for conservation payments for the
first year for which the feed grain base is established.
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"(3) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such
amounts as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out
this section 16 (i).
" (4) The Secretary shall provide by regulations for the sharing
of payments under this subsection among producers on the farm
on a fair and equitable basis and in keeping with existing
contracts.
"(5) Payments in kind shall be made through the issuance of
negotiable certificates which the Commodity Credit Corporation
shall redeem for feed grains in accordance with regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary and, notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall, in accordance
with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, assist the producer
in the marketing of such certificates. Feed grains with which
Commodity Credit Corporation redeems certificates pursuant to
this paragraph shall be valued at not less than the current support
price made available through loans and purchases, plus reasonable
carrying charges.
"(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secre-
tary may, by mutual agreement with the producer, terminate or
modify any agreement previously entered into pursuant to this
subsection if he determines such action necessary because of an
emergency created by drought or other disaster, or in order to
prevent or alleviate a shortage in the supply of feed grains."
SEC. 303. Section 326 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962, as
7 usc^*i339a amended, is amended by deleting the language beginning with "the
requirements" and ending with "Agricultural Act of 1961, and" and
substituting therefor "the requirements of any program under which
price support is extended or payments are made to farmers, and price
support may be extended or".
T I T L E IV—COTTON
SEC. 401. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended,
is amended as follows:
78 Stat. 173. (J) Sectiou 348 of the Act is amended by adding the following new
sentences at the end thereof: "The Secretary may extend the period for
performance of obligations incurred in connection with payments
made for the period ending July 31,1966, or may make payments on
raw cotton in inventory on July 31, 1966, at the rate in effect on such
date. No payments shall be made hereunder with respect to 1966 crop
cotton."
63 Stat. 674. (2) Sectiou 346 of the Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
7 u s e 1346. i. J.* J! n
a new subsection as follows:
"(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for the 1966,
1967, 1968, and 1969 crops of upland cotton, if the farm operator
elects to forgo price support for any such crop of cotton by applying
to the county committee of the county in which the farm is located
for additional acreage under this subsection, he may plant an acreage
not in excess of the farm acreage allotment established under section
7 use 1344. 344 pi^g ^jj^e acreage apportioned to the farm from the national
export market acreage reserve, and all cotton of such crop produced
on the farm may be marketed for export free of any penalty under
this section: Provided^ That the foregoing shall be applicable only
to farms which had upland cotton allotments for 1965 and are operated
by the same operator as in 1965 or by his heir.
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"For the 1966 crop the national export market acreage reserve shall
be 250,000 acres. F o r each subsequent crop—
If the carryover at the end of the marketing year
for the preceding crop is estimated to be less than The national export
the carryover at the beginning of such marketing market acreage reserve
year by— shall be—
At least 1,000,000 bales 2.50, 000 acres.
At least 750,000 bales, but not as much as 1,000,000 bales 187, 500 acres.
At least 500,000 bales, but not as much as 750,000 bales 125, 000 acres.
At least 250,000 bales, but not as much as 500,000 bales 62, 500 acres.
Less than 250,000 bales None.
"The national export market acreage reserve shall be apportioned to
farms by the Secretary on the basis of tlie applications therefor. No
application shall be accepted for a greater acreage than is available on
the farm for the production of upland cotton. After apportionments
are thus made to farms, the Secretary shall provide farm operators a
reasonable time in which to cancel their applications (and agreements
to forgo price support) and surrender to the Secretary through the
county committee the export market acreage assigned to the farm.
Acreage so surrendered shall be available for reassignment by the Sec-
retary to other eligible farms to which export market acreage has been
apportioned on the basis of the applications remaining outstanding.
The operator of any farm who elects to forgo price support for any
such crop under this subsection shall not be eligible for price support
on cotton of such crop produced on any other farm in which he has a
controlling or substantial interest as determined by the Secretary.
Acreage planted to cotton in excess of the farm acreage allotment
established under section 344 shall not be taken into account in estab- 63 stat. ero.
lishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments. The opera- ^ ^^'^'^'
tor of any farm to which export market acreage is apportioned, or the
purchasers of cotton produced on such farm, shall, under regulations
issued by the Secretary, furnish a bond or other undertaking prescribed
by the Secretary providing for the exportation, without benefit of any
Government cotton export subsidy and within such time as the Secre-
tary may specify, of all cotton produced on such farm for such year.
The bond or other undertaking given pursuant to this subsection shall
provide that, upon failure to comply with the terms and conditions
thereof, the person furnishing such bond or other undertaking shall be
liable for liquidated damages in an amount which the Secretary deter-
mines and specifies in such undertaking will approximate the amount
payable on excess cotton under subsection ( a ) . The Secretary may, in
lieu of the furnishing of a bond or other undertaking, provide for the
payment of an amount equal to that which would be payable as liqui-
dated damages under such bond or other undertaking. If such bond
or other undertaking is not furnished, or if payment in lieu thereof is
not made as provided herein, at such time and in the manner required
by regulations of the Secretary, or if the acreage planted to cotton on
the farm exceeds the sum of the farm acreage allotment established
under section 344 and the acreage apportioned to the farm from the
national export market acreage reserve, the acreage planted to cotton
in excess of the farm acreage allotment established under section 344
shall be regarded as excess acreage for purposes of this section and
section 345. Amounts collected by the Secretary under this subsection ^ use 1345.
shall be remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation."
(3) Section 350 of the Act is amended, effective with the 1966 crop, 78 stat. 175.
to read as follows: 7 u s e 1350.
"SEC. 350. I n order to afford producers an opportunity to partici-
pate in a program of reduced acreage and higher price support, as
provided in section 103 (d) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, Post, p. 1194.
the Secretary shall determine a national domestic allotment for the
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1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969 crops of upland cotton equal to the esti-
mated domestic consumption of upland cotton (standard bales of four
hundred and eighty pounds net weight) for the marketing year begin-
ning in the year in which the crop is to be produced. The Secretary
shall determine a farm domestic acreage allotment percentage for ea<;li
such year by dividing (1) the national domestic allotment (in net
weight pounds) by (2) the total for all States of the product of the
State acreage allotment and the projected State yield. The farm
domestic acreage allotment shall be established by multiplying the
T^Fs'c^'ia^Z?' farm acreage allotment established under section 344 by the farm
domestic acreage allotment percentage: Provided^ That no farm domes-
tic acreage allotment shall be less than 65 per centum of such farm
acreage allotment. Such national domestic allotment shall be deter-
mined not later than October 15 of the calendar year preceding the
year in which the crop is to be produced; except that in the case of
the 1966 crop, such determination shall be made within 15 days after
enactment of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965."
SEC. 402. (a) Section 103 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as
78 ^sfa^'iM^' amended, is amended by adding the following new subsection at the
7 use 1444. end thereof:
" ( d ) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if pro-
ducers have not disapproved marketing quotas, price support and
diversion payments shall be made available for the 1966, 1967, 1968,
and 1969 crops of upland cotton as provided in this subsection.
"(2) Price support for each such crop of upland cotton shall be
made available to cooperators through loans at such level, not exceed-
ing a level which will reflect for Middling one-inch upland cotton at
average location in the United States 90 per centum of the estimated
average world market price for Middling one-inch upland cotton for
the marketing year for such crop, as the Secretary determines will
provide orderly marketing of cotton during the harvest season and
will retain an adequate share of the world market for cotton produced
in the L'nited States taking into consideration the factors specified in
"iT^^r^'iiof'*' section 401(b) of this Act: Provided^ That the national average loan
7 u s e 1421. rate for the 1966 crop shall reflect 21 cents per pound for Middling
one-inch upland cotton.
"(3) The Secretary also shall provide additional price support for
each such crop through payments in cash or in kind to cooperators
at a rate not less than 9 cents per pound: Procided^ That the rate shall
be such that the amount obtained by—
(i) multiplying the rate by the farm domestic acreage allot-
ment percentage, and
(ii) dividing the product thus obtained by the cooperator })er-
Post, p. 1197. centage established under section 408(b), and
(iii) adding the result thus obtained to the national average
loan rate
shall not be less than 65 per centum or more than 90 per centum of
the parity price for cotton as of the month in which the payment
rate provided for by this paragraph is announced. Such payments
shall be made on the quantity of cotton determined by multiplying
the projected farm yield by the acreage planted to cotton within
the farm domestic acreage allotment: Provided^ That any such fai-m
planting not less than 90 per centum of such domestic acreage allot-
ment shall be deemed to have planted the entire amount of such allot-
ment. An acreage on a farm in any such year which the Secretary
finds was not planted to cotton because of drought, flood, or other
natural disaster shall be deemed to be planted to cotton for purposes
of payments under this subsection if such acreage is not subsequentlx-
devoted to any other income-producing crop in such year.
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" (4) The Secretary shall make diversion payments in cash or in kind
in addition to the price support payments authorized in paragraph (3)
to cooperators who reduce their cotton acreage by diverting a portion
of their cotton acreage allotment from the production of cotton to
approved conservation practices to the extent prescribed by the Secre-
t a r y : Provided, That no reduction below the domestic acreage allot-
ments established under section 850 of the Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1938, as amended, shall be prescribed: Provided further^ That Ante, p . 1193.
payment under this paragraph shall be made available for diverting to
conserving uses that part of the acreage allotment which must be
diverted from cotton in order that the producer may qualify as a coop-
erator. The rate of payment for acreage required to be diverted in
order to qualify as a cooperator shall not be less than 25 per centum of
the parity price for upland cotton as of the month in which such rate
is announced. The rate of payment for additional acreage diverted
shall be such rate as the Secretary determines to be fair and reasonable,
but shall not exceed 40 per centum of such parity price. Payment at
each applicable rate shall be made on the quantity of cotton determined
by multiplying the acreage diverted from the production of cotton
at such rate by the projected farm yield. In addition to the foregoing
payment, if any, payment at the rate applicable for acreage required
to be diverted to qualify as a cooperator shall be made to producers
on small farms as defined in section 408(b) who do not exceed their ^°^*' P- ^^^y.
farm acreage allotments on a quantity of cotton determined by
multiplying an acreage equal to 35 per centum of such farm acreage
allotment by the projected farm yield.
"(5) The Secretary may make not to exceed 50 per centum of the
payments under this subsection to producers in advance of determina-
tion of performance and the balance of such payments shall be made
at such time as the Secretary may prescribe.
"(6) Where the farm operator elects to participate in the diversion
program authorized in this subsection and no acreage is planted to cot-
ton on the farm, diversion payments shall be made at the rate estab-
lished under paragraph (4) for acreage required to be diverted to
qualify as a cooperator on the quantity of cotton determined by multi-
plying that part of the farm acreage allotment required to be diverted
to qualify as a cooperator by the projected farm yield, and the re-
mainder of such allotment may be released under the provisions of
section 344 (m) (2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
amended. The acreage on which payment is made under this para- 7^us*c*'i344'
graph shall be regarded as planted to cotton for purposes of estab-
lishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments, and farm
bases.
"(7) Payments in kind under this subsection shall be made through
the issuance of certificates which the Commodity Credit Corporation
shall redeem for cotton under regulations issued by the Secretary at
a value per pound equal to not less than the current loan rate therefor.
The Corporation may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary,
assist the producers in the marketing of such certificates at such times
and in such manner as the Secretary determines will best effectuate the
purposes of the program authorized by this subsection.
"(8) Payments under this subsection shall be conditioned on the
farm having an acreage of approved conservation uses equal to the
sum of (i) the reduction in cotton acreage required to qualify for
such payments (hereinafter called "diverted acreage"), and (ii) the
average acreage of cropland on the farm devoted to designated soil-
conserving crops or practices, including summer fallow and idle land,
during a base period prescribed by the Secretary: Provided, That
the Secretary may permit all or any part of such diverted acreage
to be devoted to the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower.
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castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plaiitago o\ato, and flaxseed, if
he determines that such production is necessary to provide an ade-
quate supply of such commodities, is not likely to increase the cost of
the price support program, and will not adversely affect farm income,
subject to the condition that payment under paragraph (4) or (6)
with respect to diverted acreage devoted to any such crop shall be at a
rate determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable, taking into
consideration the use of such acreage for the production of such crops,
but in no event shall the payment exceed one-half the rate which other-
wise would be applicable if such acreage were devoted to conser\^a-
tion uses.
"(9) The acreage regarded as planted to cotton on any farm which
qualifies for payment under this subsection except under paragraph
(6) shall, for purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm
acreage allotments and farm bases, be the farm acreage allotment
established under section 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
73^stat^*3Q4^°' 1938, as amended, excluding adjustments under subsection (m) (2)
7 use 1344. thereof.
"(10) The Secretary shall provide adequate safeguards to protect
the interests of tenants and sharecroppers, including provision for
sharing diversion payments on a fair and equitable basis under this
subsection. The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of price sup-
port payments among producers on the farm on the basis of theii-
respective shares in the cotton crop produced on the farm, or the pro-
ceeds therefrom, except that in any case in which the Secretary
determines that such basis would not be fair and equitable, the Secre-
tary shall provide for such sharing on such other basis as he may
determine to be fair and equitable.
" (11) In any case in which the failure of a producer to comply fully
with the terms and conditions of the programs formulated under this
Act preclude the making of payments under this section, the Secretary
may, nevertlieless, make such payments in such amounts as he deter-
mines to be equitable in relation to the seriousness of the default.
"(12) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if, as a
result of limitations hereafter enacted with respect to price support
under this subsection, the Secretary is unable to make available to all
cooperators the full amount of price support to which they would
otherwise be entitled under paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection
for any crop of upland cotton, (A) price support to cooperators shall
be made available for such crop (if marketing quotas have not been
disapproved) through loans or purchases at such level not less than 65
per centum nor more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor as
the Secretary determines appropriate; (B) in order to keep upland
cotton to the maxinmm extent practicable in the normal channels of
trade, such price support may be carried out through the simultaneous
purchase of cotton at the support price therefor and resale at a lower
price or through loans under which the cotton would be redeemable by
payment of a price therefor lower than the aniount of the loan thereon ;
and (C) such resale or redemption price shall be such as the Secretary
determines will provide orderly marketing of cotton during the harvest
season and will retain an adequate share of the world market for cotton
produced in the United States.
"(13) The provisions of subsection 8(g) of the Soil Conservation
^A fi^cfr" iaAn '^^^ Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (relating to assi^-nment of
16 u s e 590h.
payments), shall also apply to payments under this subsection.
"(14) The Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized to utilize
its capital funds and other assets for the purpose of making the pay-
ments authorized in this subsection and to i)ay administrative ex])enses
necessarv in carrvinji' out this subsection.""
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(b) Section 408(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 63 stat. loss.
is amended, effective only for the 1966 through 1969 crops, by changing ^ ^''^*"
the period at the end of the first sentence thereof to a colon and adding
the following: ''''Provided^ That for upland cotton a cooperator shall
be a producer on whose farm the acreage planted to such cotton does
not exceed the cooperator percentage, which shall be in the case of
the 1966 crop, 87.5 per centum of such farm acreage allotment and, in
the case of each of the 1967,1968, and 1969 crops, such percentage, not
less than 87.5 or more than 100 per centum, of such farm acreage allot-
ment as the Secretary may specify for such crop, except that in the
case of small farms (i.e. farms on which the acreage allotment is 10
acres or less, or on which the projected farm yield times the acreage
allotment is 3,600 pounds or less, and the acreage allotment has not
been reduced under section 344(m)) the acreage of cotton on the farm 7^u^s*c*'i344
shall not be required to be reduced below the farm acreage allotment."
SEC. 403. Section 301 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,
as amended, is amended by adding the following new subparagraphs
to paragraph (13) of subsection (b) : ^°s'- P- 1205.
" ( L ) 'Projected national, State, and county yields' for any crop of "Projected na.
cotton shall be determined on the basis of the yield per harvested acre county yields.""
of such crop in the United States, the State and the county, respec-
tively, during each of the five calendar years immediately preceding
the year in which such projected yield for the United States, the
State, and the county, respectively, is determined, adjusted for ab-
normal weather conditions affecting such yield, for trends in yields,
and for any significant changes in production practices.
" ( M ) 'Projected farm yield' for any crop of cotton shall be deter- .^^f^°j ^''''•^^ ^^"^
mined on the basis of the yield per harvested acre of such crop on the
farm during each of the three calendar years immediately preceding
the year in which such projected farm yield is determined, adjusted for
abnormal w^eather conditions affecting such yield, for trends in yields,
and for any significant changes in production practices, but in no event
shall such projected farm yield be less than the normal yield for such
farm as provided in subparagraph (I) of this paragraph." 78 stat. 177.
SEC. 404. Section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 7 use 1427!
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstand-
ing any other provision of this section, for the period August 1, 1966,
through July 31, 1970, (1) the Commodity Credit Corporation shall
sell upland cotton for unrestricted use at the same prices as it sells
cotton for export, in no event, however, at less than 110 per centum of
the loan rate, and (2) the Commodity Credit Corporation shall sell
or make available for unrestricted use at current market prices in each
marketing year a quantity of upland cotton equal to the amount by
which the production of upland cotton is less than the estimated
requirements for domestic use and for export for such marketing year.
The Secretary may make such estimates and adjustments therein at
such times as he determines will best effectuate the provisions of part
(2) of the foregoing sentence and such quantities of cotton as are re-
quired to be sold under such sentence shall be offered for sale in an
orderly manner and so as not to affect market prices unduly."
SEC. 405. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is "us*c*, ^^*
amended by adding after section 344 the following new section:
"SEC. 344a. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Allotments.
Secretary, if he determines that it will not impair the effective opera- or tran'sfer.^^'
tion of the program involved, (1) may permit the owner and operator
of any farm for which a cotton acreage allotment is established to sell
or lease all or any part or the right to all or any part of such allotment
(excluding that part of the allotment which the Secretary determines
was apportioned to the farm from the national acreage reserve) to
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any other owner or operator of a farm for transfer to such farm; (2)
may permit the owner of a farm to transfer all or any part of such
allotment to any other farm owned or controlled by him: Provided^
That the authority granted under this section may be exercised for
the calendar years'^ 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969, but all transfers here-
under shall be for such period of years as the parties thereto may
agree.
trans"ft\-"°"' ^°' "(b) Trausfers under this section shall be subject to the following
conditions: (i) no allotment shall be transferred to a farm in another
State or to a person for use in another State; (ii) no farm allotment
may be sold or leased for transfer to a farm in another county unless
the producers of cotton in the county from which transfer is being-
made have voted in a referendum within three years of the date of such
transfer, by a two-thirds majority of the producers participating in
such referendum, to permit the transfer of allotments to farms outside
the county, which referendum, insofar as practicable, shall be held in
conjunction with the marketing quota referendum for the commodity;
(iii) no transfer of an allotment from a farm subject to a mortgage
or other lien shall be permitted unless the transfer is agreed to by the
lienholder; (iv) no sale of a farm allotment shall be permitted if any
sale of cotton allotment to the same farm has been made within the
three immediately preceding crop years; (v) the total cotton allotment
for any farm to which allotment is transferred by sale or lease shall not
exceed the farm acreage allotment (excluding reapportioned acreage)
established for such farm for 1965 by more than one hundred acres;
(vi) no cotton in excess of the remaining acreage allotment on the farm
shall be planted on any farm from which the allotment (or part of
an allotment) is sold for a period of five years following such sale,
nor shall any cotton in excess of the remaining acreage allotment on
the farm be planted on any farm from which the allotment (or part
of an allotment) is leased during the period of such lease, and the
producer on such farm shall so agree as a condition precedent to the
Secretary's approval of any such sale or lease; and (vii) no transfer
of allotment shall be effective until a record thereof is filed with the
county committee of the county to which such transfer is made and
such committee determines that the transfer complies with the provi-
sions of this section. Such record may be filed with such committee
only during the period beginning June 1 and ending December 31.
"(c) The transfer of an allotment shall have the effect of trans-
ferring also the acreage history, farm base, and marketing quota
attributable to such allotment and if the transfer is made prior to the
determination of the allotment for any year the transfer shall include
the right of the owner or operator to have an allotment determined
for the farm for such year: Provided, That in the case of a transfer
by lease, the amount of the allotment shall be considered for purposes
of determining allotments after the expiration of the lease to have been
planted on the farm from which such allotment is transferred.
" ( d ) The land in the farm from which the entire cotton allotment
and acreage history have been transferred shall not be eligible for <\
new farm cotton allotment during the five years following the year in
which such transfer is made.
" (e) The transfer of a portion of a farm allotment which was estab-
lished under minimum farm allotment provisions for cotton or which
operates to bring the farm within the minimum farm allotment provi-
sion for cotton shall cause the minimum fann allotment or base to be
reduced to an amount equal to the allotment remaining on the farm
after such transfer.
Regulations. i*(-f) ^\^Q Secretary shall prescribe regulations for the administra-
tion of this section, which shall include provisions for adjusting the
size of the allotment transferred if tlie farm to wliich the allotment is
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transferred has a substantially higher yield per acre and such other
terms and conditions as he deems necessary.
" ( g ) If the sale or lease occurs during a period in which the farm
is covered by a conservation reserve contract, cropland conversion
agreement, cropland adjustment agreement, or other similar land utili-
zation agreement, the rates of payment provided for in the contract
or agreement of the farm from which the transfer is made shall be
subject to an appropriate adjustment, but no adjustment shall be made
in the contract or agreement of the farm to which the allotment is
transferred.
" ( h ) The Secretary shall by regulations authorize the exchange
between farms in the same county, or between farms in adjoining
counties within a Stat«, of cotton acreage allotment for rice acreage
allotment. Any such exchange shall be made on the basis of applica-
tion filed with the county committee by the owners and operators of
the farms, and the transfer of allotment between the farms shall
include transfer of the related acreage history for the commodity.
The exchange shall be acre for acre or on such other basis as the Sec-
retary determines is fair and reasonable, taking into consideration the
comparative productivity of the soil for the farms involved and other
relevant factors. No farm from which the entire cotton or rice allot-
ment has been transferred shall be eligible for an allotment of cotton
or rice as a new farm within a period of five crop years after the date
of such exchange.
"(i) The provisions of this section relating to cotton shall apply
only to upland cotton."
TITLE V—WHEAT
SEC. 501. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in
the calendar year 1966, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,
as amended, is amended as follows:
(1) Section 332 is amended by changing item (iv) in subsection (b) y^usc'ua?"
to read: "will be utilized during Such marketing year in the United
States as livestock (including poultry) feed, excluding the estimated
quantity of wheat which will be utilized for such purpose as a result of
the substitution of wheat for feed grains under section 328 of the Food
and Agriculture Act of 1962" and by adding the following new y^us^c^'iasg^c
subsection:
" ( d ) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secre-
tary shall not proclaim a national marketing quota for the crops of
wheat planted lor harvest in the calendar years 1966 through 1969, and
farm marketing quotas shall not be in effect for such crops of wheat."
(2) Section 333 is amended to read as follows: "The Secretary shall 76 stat. 62o.
proclaim a national acreage allotment for each crop of wheat. The ^ "^^ ^^^^•
amount of the national acreage allotment for any crop of wheat shall
be the number of acres which the Secretary determines on the basis of
the projected national yield and expected underplantings (acreage
other than that not harvested because of program incentives) of farm
acreage allotments will produce an amount of wheat equal to the
national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year for such
crop, or if a national marketing quota was not proclaimed, the quota
which would have been determined if one had been proclaimed.
(3) Subsection (a) of section 334 is amended to read as follows: 7^us*c*'i33^4
"(a) The national allotment for wheat, less a reserve of not to National aiiot.
exceed 1 pei" centum thereof for apportionment as provided in this sub- '"^"t-
section and less the special acreage reserve provided for in this subsec-
tion, shall be apportioned by the Secretary among the States on the
basis of the preceding year's allotment for each such State, including
all amounts allotted to the State and including for 1967 the increased
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76 Stat. 621. acreage in the State allotted for 1966 under section 335, adjusted to
7 u s e 1335.
the extent deemed necessary by the Secretary to establish a fair and
ec[uitable apportionment base for each State, taking into considera-
tion established crop rotation practices, estimated decrease in farm
allotments because of loss of history, and other relevant factors. The
reserve acreage set aside herein for apportionment by the Secretary
shall be used to make allotments to counties in addition to the county
allotments made under subsection (b) of this section, on the basis of
the relative needs of counties for additional allotments because of
reclamation and other new areas coming into production of wheat.
There also shall be made available a special acreage reserve of not in
excess of one million acres as determined by the Secretary to be desir-
able for the purposes hereof which shall be in addition to the national
acreage reserve provided for in this subsection. Such special acreage
reserve shall be made available to the States to make additional allot-
ments to counties on the basis of the relative needs of counties, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, for additional allotments to make adjustments
in the allotments on old wheat farms (that is, farms on which wheat
has been seeded or regarded as seeded to one or more of the three
crops immediately preceding the crop for which the allotment is
established) on which the ratio of wheat acreage allotment to crop-
land on the farm is less than one-half the average ratio of wheat
acreage allotment to cropland on old wheat farms in the county.
Such adjustments shall not provide an allotment for any farm which
would result in an allotment-cropland ratio for the farm in excess of
one-half of such county average ratio and the total of such adjust-
ments in any county shall not exceed the acreage made available there-
for in the county. Such apportionment from the special acreage
reserve shall be made only to counties where wheat is a major income-
producing crop, only to farms on which there is limited opportunity
for the production of an alternative income-producing crop, and only
if an efficient farming operation on the farm requires the allotment
of additional acreage from the special acreage reserve. For the pur-
poses of making adjustments hereunder the cropland on the farm shall
not include any land developed as cropland subsequent to the 1963
crop year."
7^us*c*'i3^34 ^^) Subsection (b) of section 334 is amended to read as follows:
Apportionment " ( b ) The State acreage allotment for wheat, less a reserve of not
among counties. ^Q excecd 3 pcr ceutum thereof for apportionment as provided in
subsection (c) of this section, shall be apportioned by the Secretary
among the counties in the State, on the basis of the preceding year's
wheat allotment in each such county, including for 196Y the increased
acreage in the county allotted for 1966 pursuant to section 335, ad-
justed to the extent deemed necessarjr by the Secretary in order to
establish a fair and equitable apportionment base for each county,
taking into consideration established crop rotation practices, estimated
decrease in farm allotments because of loss of history, and other
relevant factors."
(5) Subsection (c) of section 334 is amended by adding new para-
graphs (3) and (4) to read as follows:
"(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this sub-
section, the past acreage of wheat for 1967 and any subsequent year
shall be the acreage of wheat planted, plus the acreage regarded as
planted, for harvest as grain on the farm which is not in excess of
the farm acreage allotment.
"(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection (c),
the farm acreage allotment for the 1967 and any subsequent crop of
wheat shall be established for each old farm by apportioning the
county wheat acreage allotment among farms in the county on which
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wheat has been planted, or is considered to have been planted, for
harvest as grain m any one of the three years immediately preceding
the year for which allotments are determined on the basis of past
acreage of wheat and the farm acreage allotment for the year im-
mediately preceding the year for which the allotment is bein^ estab-
lished, adjusted as hereinafter provided. F o r purposes of this para-
graph, the acreage allotment for the immediately preceding year may
be adjusted to reflect established crop-rotation practices, may be ad-
justed downw^ard to reflect a reduction in the tillable acreage on the
farm, and may be adjusted upward to reflect such other factors as
the Secretary determines should be considered for the purpose of es-
tablishing a fair and equitable allotment: Provided^ That (i) for the
purposes of computing the allotment for any year, the acreage allot-
ment for the farm for the immediately preceding year shall be de-
creased by 7 per centum if for the year immediately preceding the
year for which such reduction is made neither a voluntary diversion
program nor a voluntary certificate program was in effect and there
was noncompliance with the farm acreage allotment for such year;
(ii) for purposes of clause (i), any farm on which the entire amount
of farm marketing excess is delivered to the Secretary, stored, or ad-
justed to zero in accordance with applicable regulations to avoid or
postpone payment of the penalty when farm marketing quotas are in
effect, shall be considered in compliance with the allotment, but if any
part of the amount of wheat so stored is later depleted and penalty
becomes due by reason of such depletion, the allotment for such farm
next computed after determination of such depletion shall be reduced
by reducing the allotment for the immediately preceding year by 7
per centum; and (iii) for purposes of clause (i) if the Secretary deter-
mines that the reduction in the allotment does not provide fair and
equitable treatment to producers on farms following special crop rota-
tion practices, he may modify such reduction in the allotment as he
determines to be necessary to provide fair and equitable treatment to
such producers."
(6) Subsection (d) of section 334 is repealed, Repeal
(7) Subsection (g) of section 334 is amended by striking out the 74 Stat . 39.
7 u s e 1334.
language "except as prescribed in the provisos to the first sentence of 71 Stat . 477;
subsections (a) and ( b ) , respectively, of this section" in the first 72 Stat. 180;
76 Stat. 1520.
sentence,
(8) Section 335 is amended by adding at the end thereof the follow- 76 Stat . 621,
i n g : "This section shall not be applicable to the crops planted for 7 u s e 1335.
harvest in 1967 and subsequent years."
(9) Section 339(b) is amended (1) by striking out "1964 and 1965 7 use 1339.
crops of wheat" and substituting "crops of wheat planted for harvest
in the calendar years 1964 through 1969"; and, (2) by striking out of
the third sentence "20 per centum of the farm acreage allotment" and
"fifteen acres" and substituting "50 per centum of the farm acreage
allotment" and "twenty-five acres", respectively.
(10) Section 339 (e) is amended to read as follows: " (e) The Secre- Diverted
tary may permit all or any part of the diverted acreage to be devoted a c r e a g e .
to the production of guar, sesame, safiiower, sunflower, castor beans,
mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, and flaxseed, if he determines
that such production of the commodity is needed to provide an ade-
quate supply, is not likely to increase the cost of the price-support
program and will not adversely affect farm income, subject to the
condition that payment with respect to diverted acreage devoted to
any such crop shall be at a rate determined by the Secretary to be
fair and reasonable taking into consideration the use of such acreage
for the production of such crops: Provided^ That in no event shall
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the payment exceed one-half the rate which otherwise would be
applicable if such acreage were devoted to conservation uses."
SEC. 502. Effective only with respect to the crops of wheat planted
for harvest in the calendar years 1966 through 1969, and the market-
78 Stat. 179. ing years for such crops, section 3'r9b is amended to read as follows:
7 u s e 1379b,
"SEC. 379b. A wheat marketing allocation program as provided in
this subtitle shall be in effect for the marketing years for the crops
planted for harvest in the calendar years 1966 through 1969. When-
ever a wheat marketing allocation program is in effect for any market-
ing year the Secretary shall determine (1) the wheat marketing alloca-
tion for such year which shall be the amount of wheat he estimates
will be used during such year for food products for consumption in
the United States, but the amount of wheat included in the marketing
allocation for food products for consumption in the United States
shall not be less than five hundred million bushels, and (2) the national
allocation percentage for such year which shall be the percentage
which, when applied to the farm as provided in this section, will result
in marketing certificates being issued to producers in the amount of
the national wheat marketing allocation. The cost of any domestic
marketing certificates issued to producers in excess of the number of
certificates acquired by processors as a result of the application of tlie
five hundred million bushel minimum or an overestimate of the amount
of -vyheat used during such year for food products for consumption
in the United States shall be borne by Commodity Credit Corporation,
Each farm shall receive a wheat marketing allocation for such market-
ing year equal to the number of bushels obtained by multiplying the
number of acres in the farm acreage allotment for wheat by the
projected farm yield, and multiplying the resulting number of bushels
by the national allocation percentage."
SEC. 503. Effective beginning with the 1970 crop, section 379b is
amended by striking out "normal yield of wheat for the farm as deter-
mined by the Secretary" and substituting "projected farm yield".
SEC. 504. (a) Effective upon the enactment of this Act, section
'^^u^^c^'is^? ^' d 379d (b) is amended by striking out the third sentence and substituting
the following: "The Secretary may exempt from the requirements of
this subsection wheat exported for donation abroad and other non-
commercial exports of wheat, wheat processed for use on the farm
where grown, wheat produced by a State or agency thereof and proc-
essed for use by the State or agency thereof, wheat processed for
donation, and wheat processed for uses determined by the Secretary
to be noncommercial. Such exemptions may be made applicable with
respect to any wheat processed or exported beginning July 1, 1964.
There shall be exempt from the requirements of this subsection bever-
age distilled from wheat prior to July 1, 1964. A beverage distilled
from wheat after July 1, 1964, shall be deemed to be removed for sale
or consumption at the time it is placed in barrels for aging except
that upon the giving of a bond as prescribed by the Secretary, the
purchase of and payment for such marketing certificates as may be
required may be deferred until such beverage is bottled for sale.
Wheat shipped to a Canadian port for storage in bond, or storage
under a similar arrangement, and subsequent exportation, shall be
deemed to have been exported for purposes of this subsection when
it is exported from the Canadian port."
li°r ^^''°"'^ (^) Section 379d(d) is amended by inserting after the word "flour"
'^ ^^'^^' the following: " (excluding flour second clears not used for human con-
sumption as determined by the Secretary)", and by inserting at the
end thereof the following: "The Secretary may at his election admin-
ister the exemption for wheat processed into flour second clears
through refunds either to processors of such wheat or to the users
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of such clears. For the purpose of such refunds, the wheat equivalent
of flour second clears may be determined on the basis of conversion fac-
tors authorized by section 379f of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
of 1938, even though certificates had been surrendered on the basis of 76 stat. (529.
the weight of the wheat." ' ''^'' '''"'•
This subsection shall be effective as to products sold, or removed for Effective date,
sale or consumption on or after sixty days following enactment of this
Act, unless the Secretary shall by regulation designate an earlier
effective date within such sixty-day period.
(c) Section 379d(b) is amended by adding at the end thereof the y^ul^c^uyVd
following: "Whenever the face value per bushel of domestic market-
ing certificates for a marketing year is different from the face value
of domestic marketing certificates for the preceding marketing year,
the Secretary may require marketing certificates issued for the preced-
ing marketing year to be acquired to cover all w^heat processed into
food products during such preceding marketing year even though
the food product may be marketed or removed for sale or consumption
after the end of the marketing year."
(d) Section 379g is amended by inserting " ( a ) " after "SEC. 379g" 76^stat. 629.
and adding a new subsection (b) as follows: ^'
"(b) Whenever the face value per bushel of domestic marketing
certificates for a marketing year is substantially difi'erent from the face
value of domestic marketing certificates for the preceding marketing
year, the Secretary is authorized to take such action as he determines
necessary to facilitate the transition between marketing years. Not-
withstanding any other provision of this subtitle, such authority shall
include, but shall not be limited to, the authority to sell certificates to
persons engaged in the processing of wheat into food products cover-
ing such quantities of wheat, at such prices, and under such terms and
conditions as the Secretary may by regulation provide. Any such
certificate shall be issued by Commodity Credit Corporation."
SEC. 505. The Agricultural Act of 1964 is amended as follows:
(1) Amendment (7) of section 202 is amended by striking out 78 stat. 179.
"1964 and 1965" and substituting "the calendar years 1964 through n^te^ ^^^^
1969".
(2) Amendment (13) of section 202 is amended by striking out 7 use 1379c
"only with respect to the crop planted for harvest in the calendar "°*^"
year 1965" and substituting "with respect to the crops planted for
harvest in the calendar years 1965 through 1969".
(3) Section 204 is amended by striking out "1964 and 1965" and 7 use 1427
substituting "1964 through 1969". "°*^-
SEC. 506. Effective only with respect to the 1966 through 1969 crops,
section 107 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (7 U.S.C.
1445a), is amended to read as follows: 78 stat. is 2.
"SEC. 107. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 101 of this
Act, for any marketing year— 63 stat. 1051.
u s e 1441.
" ( l ) ( a ) Price support for wheat accompanied by domestic
certificates shall be at 100 per centum of the parity price or as near
thereto as the Secretary determines practicable, and (b) price
support for wheat not accompanied by marketing certificates shall
be at such level, not in excess of the parity price therefor, as the
Secretary determines appropriate, taking into consideration com-
petitive world prices of wheat, the feeding value of wheat in rela-
tion to feed grains, and the level at which price support is made
available for feed grains,
"(2) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), for the
1966 crop, price support for wheat accompanied by domestic mar-
keting certificates shall be at 100 per centum of the parity price
therefor, and price support for wheat not accompanied by mar-
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keting certificates shall be not less than $1.25 per bushel. F o r any
crop of wheat planted for harvest during the calendar years 1967
through 1969 for which the diversion factor established pursuant
to section 339(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
76 Stat. 622; amended, is not less than 10 per centum, the total average rate of
78 Stat. 179.
7 u s e 1339. return per bushel made available to a cooperator on the estimated
production of his allotment based on projected yield through
loans, domestic marketing certificates, estimated returns from
export marketing certificates, and diversion payments for acre-
age diverted pursuant to section 339(a) of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act of 1938, as amended, shall not be less than the total
average rate of return per bushel made available to cooperators
through loans and domestic marketing certificates for the 1966
crop.
" (3) Price support shall he, made available only to cooperators,
and
'Cooperator." " (4) A 'cooperator' with respect to any c-rop of wheat produced
on a farm shall be a producer who (i) does not knowingly exceed
(A) the farm acreage allotment foi- wheat on the farm or (B)
except as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe, the farm
acreage allotment for wheat on any other farm on which the pro-
ducer shares in the production of wheat, and (ii) complies with
the land-use requirements of section 339 of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to the extent prescribed by
the Secretary. No producer shall be deemed to have exceeded a
farm acreage allotment for wheat if the production on the acreage
in excess of the farm acreage allotment is stored pursuant to the
76 Stat. 627; provisions of section 379c (b), but the pi-oducer shall not be eligible
78 Stat. 180.
7 u s e 1379c. to receive price support, on the wheat so stored.'"'
SEC. 507. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in
the calendar year 1967, section 339(a) (1) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by inserting after the words
"national acreage allotment", wherever they appear, the following:
"(less an acreage equal to the increased acreage allotted for 1966 pursu-
76 Stat. 621. ant to section 335) '.
7 u s e 1335.
SEO. 508. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in
the calendar year 1966, section 379c(a) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by inserting before the
f)eriod at the end of the third sentence thereof a semicolon and the fol-
owing: "except that in any case in which the Secretary determines
that such basis would not be fair and equitable, the Secretary shall
provide for such sharing on such other basis as he may determine to
be fair and equitable."", and by adding at the end thereof the following:
"An acreage on the farm not planted to wheat because of drought,
flood, or other natural disaster shall be deemed to be an actual acreage
of wheat planted for harvest for purposes of this subsection provided
such acreage is not subsequently planted to any other income-produc-
ing crops during such year. Producers on any farm who have planted
not less than 90 per centum of the acreage of wheat required to l>e
planted in order to earn the full amount of marketing certificates for
which the farm is eligible shall be deemed to have planted the entire
acreage required to be planted for tliat purpose.'*
SEC. 509. Section 301(b) of the Agi'icultural Adjustment Act of
52 Stat. 38. 1938, as amended, is amended as follows:
7 u s e 130 1.
(1) Paragraph (8) is amended by inserting "( A ) " after "(8)"' and
adding the following new subparagra])!):
"Projected na- " ( B ) 'Projected national yield" as applied to any crop of wheat.
tional yield."
shall be determined on the ba-sis of the national yield per harveste<l
acre of the commoditv (hiiiiiir each of the Hve calendar vears immedi-
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ately preceding the year in which such projected national yield is deter-
mined, adjusted for abnormal weather conditions affecting such yield,
for trends in yields and for any significant changes in production
practices."
(2) Paragraph (13) is amended by adding the following new 7\j|*c*'i3'^i
subparagraphs:
" ( J ) 'Projected county yield' for any crop of wheat shall be deter- "Projected^
mined on the basis of the yield per harvested acre of such commodity ''°""*^ ^'^
in the county during each of the five calendar years immediately pre-
ceding the year in which such projected county yield is determined,
adjusted for abnormal weather conditions affecting such yield, for
trends in yields and for any significant changes in production practices.
" ( K ) 'Projected farm yield' for any crop of wheat shall be deter- .^'^Projected farm
mined on the basis of the yield per harvested acre of such commodity
on the farm during each of the three calendar years immediately pre-
ceding the year in which such projected farm yield is determined,
adjusted for abnormal w^eather conditions affecting such yield, for
trends in fields and for any significant changes in production prac-
tices, but m no event shall such projected farm yield be less than the
normal yield for such farm as provided in subparagraph ( E ) of this
paragraph." 7o stat. 212.
SEC, 510. (a) Section 379c(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
of 1938, as amended, is amended, effective beginning with the 1966 ^^ ^*^*- ^27;
crop, by striking out of the fifth sentence the words ' f o r m a l yield of 7 use fa^c.
wheat per acre established for the farm" and substituting therefor the
words projected farm yield".
(b) Section 379i of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
amended, is amended, effective as of the effective date of the original ^ "^^ 13791.
enactment of that section, by inserting in subsections (a) and (b)
after the word "who", wherever it appears, the word "knowingly".
SEC. 511. (a) Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest
in 1966, paragraph (9) of section 301(b) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by striking out "cotton" and
"wheat" and by adding at the end thereof the following: " 'Normal
production' as applied to any number of acres of cotton or wheat means
the projected farm yield times such number of acres."
(b) Public Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress, as amended, is 7^usc*i34o'
amended by changing the words "normal yield of wheat per acre
established for the farm" in paragraph (1) to the words "projected
farm yield".
SEC. 512. The national. State, county, and farm acreage allotments
for the 1966 crop of w'heat shall be established in accordance with the
provisions of law in effect prior to the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 513. (a) Section 379d(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
of 1938 is amended by striking out the second sentence and substituting ^^us^c* 137 ^d
the following: "The cost of the export marketing certificates per bushel
to the exporter shall be that amount determined by the Secretary on
a daily basis which would make LTnited States wheat and wheat
flour generally competitive in the world market, avoid disruption of
world market prices, and fulfill the international obligations of the
United States."
(b) Section 379c (a) of such Act is amended by striking out every-
thing in the next to the last sentence beginnmg with the words
"United States" and substituting the following: "United States. The
Secretary shall also provide for the issuance of export marketing cer-
tificates to eligible producers at the end of the marketing year on a pro
rata basis. For such purposes, the value per bushel of export market-
ing certificates shall be an average of the total net proceeds from the
sale of export marketing certificates during the marketing year after
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deducting the total amount of wheat export subsidies paid to
exporters."
rus*c*i379^c (^) Section 379c(c) of such Act is amended by striking out "and
the face value per bushel of export certificates shall be the amount by
which the level of price support for wheat accompanied by export
certificates exceeds the level of price support for noncertificate wheat".
Tu^c'^issVc ^^^' ^^^- Section 328 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 is
amended by adding to the end thereof the following: "In establishing
terms and conditions for permitting wheat to be planted in lieu of
oats and rye, the Secretary may take into account the number of feed
units per acre of wheat in relation to the number of feed units per acre
of oats and rye."
SEC. 515. Section 379c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,
76 Stat. 627. ^g amended, is amended, effective beginning with the crop planted for
harvest in the calendar year 1964, by adding the following subsection:
" (e) I n any case in which the failure of a producer to comply fully
with the terms and conditions of the programs formulated under this
Act preclude the issuance of marketing certificates, the Secretary may,
nevertheless, issue such certificates in such amounts as he determines
to be equitable in relation to the seriousness of the default."
SEC. 516. Section 379e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,
7 use i379e. ^g amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, Commodity
Credit Corporation shall sell marketing certificates for the marketing
years for the 1966 through the 1969 wheat crops to persons engaged in
the processing of food products at the face value thereof less any
amount by which price support for wheat accompanied by domestic
certificates exceeds $2 per bushel."
for!^'^!n!:fl\^^°^^^
relief pur SEC. 517. Subsection (b) of section 379c of the Agricultural Adjust-
poses ment Act of 1938 is amended by inserting immediately preceding
the words "stored" wherever it appears, in the fourth through the sixth
sentences, the words "delivered to the Secretary or", and by adding at
the end thereof the following: "Any wheat delivered to the Secre-
tary hereunder shall become the property of the United States and
shall be disposed of by the Secretary for relief purposes in the United
States or in foreign countries or in such other manner as he shall
determine will divert it from the normal channels of trade and com-
merce. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secre-
tary may provide that a producer shall not be eligible to receive mar-
keting certificates, or may adjust the amount of marketing certificates
to be received hj the producer, with respect to any farm for any year
in which a variety of wheat is planted on the farm which has been
determined by the Secretary, after consultation with State Agricul-
tural Experiment Stations, agronomists, cereal chemists and other
qualified technicians, to have undesirable milling or baking qualities
and has made public announcement thereof."
TITLE VI—CROPLAND ADJUSTMENT
^^^s^tai" 1 ^^^' ^^^- "^^^ ^^^1 Bank Act of 1956, as amended, is hereby re-
7 use 1801' pealed, except that it shall remain in effect with respect to contracts
"ote- entered into prior to such repeal.
r^Zll?^'^^^ "^"^ SEC. 602. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the
producers.
purpose of reducing the costs of farm programs, assisting farmers
in turning their land to nonagricultural uses, promoting the devel-
opment and conservation of the Nation's soil, water, forest, wildlife,
and recreational resources, establishing, protecting, and conserving
open spaces and natural beauty, the Secretary of Agriculture is au-
thorized to formulate and carry out a program during the calendar
79 STAT. ] PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 1207
years 1965 through 1969 under which agreements would be entered
into with producers as hereinafter provided for periods of not less
than five nor more than ten years. No agreement shall be entered
into under this section concerning land with respect to which the
ownership has changed in the three-year period preceding the first
year of the agreement period unless the new ownership was acquired
by will or succession as a result of the death of the previous owner, or
unless the new ownership was acquired prior to January 1,1965, under
other circumstances which the Secretary determines, and specifies by
regulation, will give adequate assurance that such land was not ac-
quired for the purpose of placing it in the program: Provided^ That
this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the continuation of an
agreement by a new owner after an agreement has once been entered
into under this section: Provided further^ That the Secretary shall not
require a person who has operated the land to be covered by an agree-
ment under this section for as long as three years preceding the date of
the agreement and who controls the land for the agreement period to
own the land as a condition of eligibility for entering into the
agreement."
(b) The producer shall agree (1) to carry out on a specifically Land use.
designated acreage of land on the farm regularly used in the produc-
tion of crops (including crops, such as tame hay, alfalfa, and clovers,
which do not require annual tillage and which have been planted
within five years preceding the date of the agreement), hereinafter
called "designated acreage", and maintain for the agreement period
practices or uses which will conserve soil, water, or forest resources,
or establish or protect or conserve open spaces, natural beauty, wild-
life or recreational resources, or prevent air or water pollution, in sucli
manner as the Secretary may prescribe (priority being given to the
extent practicable to practices or uses which are most likely to result
in permanent retirement to noncrop uses) ; (2) to maintain in con-
serving crops or uses or allow to remain idle throughout the agreement
period the acreage normally devoted to such crops or uses; (3) not
to harvest any crop from or graze the designated acreage during the
agreement period, unless the Secretary, after certification by the Gov-
ernor of the State in which such acreage is situated of the need for
grazing or harvesting of such acreage, determines that it is necessary
to permit grazing or harvesting in order to alleviate damage, hard-
ship, or suffering caused by severe drought, flood, or other natural dis-
aster, and consents to such grazing or harvesting subject to an appro-
priate reduction in the rate of payment; and (4) to such additional
terms and conditions as the Secretary determines are desirable to
effectuate the purposes of the program, including such measures as the
Secretary may deem appropriate to keep the designated acreage free
from erosion, insects, weeds, and rodents. Agreements entered into
under which 1966 is the first year of the agreement period (A) shall
require the producer to divert from production all of one or more crops
designated by the Secretary; and (B) shall ndt provide for diversion
from the production of upland cotton in any county in which the
county committee by resolution determines, and requests of the Sec-
retary, that there should not be such diversion in 1966.
(c) Under such agreements the Secretary shall (1) bear such part Federal costs.
of the average cost (including labor) for the county or area in which
the farm is situated of establishing and maintaining authorized prac-
tices or uses on the designated acreage as the Secretary determines to
be necessary to effectuate the purposes of the program, but not tb
exceed the average rate for comparable practices or uses under the
agricultural conservation program, and (2) make an annual adjust- Annual adjust-
ment payment to the producer for the period of the agreement at ""^"^ payment.
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such rate or rates as the Secretary determines to be fair and reason-
able in consideration of the obligations undertaken by the producers.
The rate or rates of annual adjustment payments as determined here-
under may be increased by an amount determined by the Secretary
to be appropriate in relation to the benefit to the general public of
the use of the designated acreage if the producer further agrees to
permit, without other compensation, access to such acreage by the
general public, during the agreement period, for hunting, trapping,
fishing, and hiking, subject to applicable State and Federal regula-
tions. The Secretary and the producer may agree that the annual
adjustment payments for all years of the agreement period shall be
made either upon approval of the agreement or in such installments
as they may agree to be desirable: Provided^ That for each year any
annual adjustment payment is made in advance of performance,
the annual adjustment payment shall be reduced by 5 per centum.
The Secretary may provide for adjusting any payment on account
of failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the program.
Advertising and
bid procedures. (d) The Secretary shall, unless he determines that such action will
be inconsistent with the effective administration of the program, use
an advertising and bid procedure in determining the lands in any area
to be covered by agreements. The total acreage placed under contract
in any county or local community shall be limited to a percentage of
the total eligible acreage in such county or local community which the
Secretary determines would not adversely affect the economy of the
county or local community. In determining such percentage the Sec-
retary shall give appropriate consideration to the productivity of the
acreage being retired as compared to the average productivity of
eligible acreage in the county or local community.
Annual adj ust- (e) The annual adjustment payment shall not exceed 40 per centum
tnent payment,
limitation. of the estimated value, as determined by the Secretary, on the basis
of prices in effect at the time the agreement is entered into, of the
crops or types of crops which might otherwise be grown. The esti-
mated value may be established by the Secretary on a county, area, or
individual farm basis as he deems appropriate.
Agreements, (f) The Secretary may terminate any agreement with a producer
termination or
modification. by mutual agreement with the producer if the Secretary determines
that such termination would be in the public interest, and may agree
to such modification of agreements as he may determine to be desirable
to carry out the purposes of the program or facilitate its administra-
tion.
Allotment (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of
histories.
Agricillture may, to the extent he deems it desirable, provide by appro-
priate regulations for preservation of cropland, crop acreage, and
allotment history applicable to acreage diverted from the production
of crops in order to establish or maintain vegetative cover or other
approved practices for the purpose of any Federal program under
which such history is used as a basis for an allotment or other limita-
Repeal. tion or for participation in such program. Subsections (b) (3) and
(4) and (e) (6) of section 16 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic
74 Stat. 1030; Allotment Act, as amended, are repealed, except that all rights accru-
7 6 Stat. 606.
16 u s e 590p. ing thereunder to persons who entered into contracts or agreements
prior to such repeal shall be preserved.
(h) I n carrying out the program, the Secretary shall utilize the
services of local, county, and State committees established under sec-
tion 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as
5 2 Stat. 31. amended.
16 u s e 590h.
(i) For the purpose of obtaining an increase in the permanent
retirement of cropland to noncrop uses the Secretary may, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, transfer funds available for
79 STAT. ] PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 1209
carrying out the program to any otliei- Federal agency or to States or
local government agencies for use in acquiring cropland for the pres-
ervation of open spaces, natural beauty, the development of wildlife or
recreational facilities, or the prevention of air or water pollution
under terms and conditions consistent with and at costs not greater
than those under agreements entered into with producers, provided
the Secretary determines that the puri)oses of the program will be
accomplished by such action.
(j) The Secretary also is authorized to share the cost with State
and local governmental agencies in the establishment of practices or
uses which will establish, protect, and conserve open spaces, natural
beauty, wildlife or recreational resources, or prevent air or water pol-
lution under terms and conditions and at costs consistent with those
under agreements entered into with producers, pro\ided the Secretary
determines that the purposes of the progi-am will be accomplished by
such action.
(k) I n carrying out the program, the Secretary shall not during
any of the fiscal years ending June 80, 1966 through June 30, 1968 or
during the period June 30, 1968 througli December 31,1969, enter into
agreements with producers which would re(iuire i)ayments to pro-
ducers in any calendar year under such agreements in excess of
$225,000,000 plus any amount by which agreements entered into in
prior fiscal years require payments in amounts less than authorized for
such prior fiscal years. For purposes of aj)plying this limitation, the
annual adjustment payment shall be cluirgea})le to the year in which
performance is rendered I'egardless of tlie year in which it is made.
(1) The Secretary is authorized to utilize the facilities, services. Commodity
authorities, and funds of the Commodity (^redit Corporation in dis- tion/use°af°'^^'
charging his functions and responsibilities under this program, includ- facilities.
ing payment of costs of administration : Pror'ided. That after Decem-
ber 31, 1966, the Connnodity Credit Corporation shall not make any
expenditures for carrying o\U the purposes of this title unless the
Corporation has received funds to cover such expenditures from
appropriations made to carry out the purposes of this title. There are
hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary
to carry out the program, including such amounts as may be required
to make payments to the Corporation for its actual costs incurred or
to be incurred under this program.
(m) In case any producer who is entitled to any payment or com-
pensation dies, becomes incompetent, or disappeai-s before receiving
such payment or compensation, or is succeeded by another who renders
or completes the required performance, the payment or compensation
shall, without regard to any other provisions of law, be made as the
Secretary may determine to be fair and reasonable in all the circum-
stances and so provide by regulations.
(n) The Secretary shall provide adeijuate safeguards to protect
the interests of tenants and sharecroppers, in<']uding provision for
sharing, on a fair and equitable basis, in payments or compensation
under 'this program.
(o) The acreage on any farm which is diverted from the produc-
tion of any commodity pursuant to an agreement hereafter entered into
under this title shall be deemed to be acreage diverted from that com-
modity for the purposes of any conmiodity program under which
diversion is required as a condition of eligibility for price support.
(p) The Secretary may, without regard to the civil service laws. Advisory Board
appoint an Advisory Board on Wildlife to advise and consult on pointment^' ^
matters relating to his functions under this title as he deems appro-
priate. The Board shall consist of twelve persons <^hosen from mem-
bers of wildlife organizations, farm organizations, State game and
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fish agencies, and representatives of the general public. Members of
such Advisory Board who are not regular full-time employees of the
United States shall not be entitled to any compensation or expenses,
(q) The Secretary shall prescribe such r e f l a t i o n s as he determines
necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
TITLE VII—MISCELLANEOUS
Commodity or SEC. 701. Section 374(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
land u s e , acreage
measurement. 1938, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
5 2 Stat. 65. " ( a ) The Secretary shall provide for ascertaining, by measurement
7 u s e 1374.
or otherwise, the acreage of any agricultural commodity or land
use on farms for which the ascertainment of such acreage is neces-
sary to determine compliance under any program administered by
the Secretary. Insofar as practicable, the acreage of the commodity
and land use shall be ascertained prior to harvest, and, if any acreage
so ascertained is not in compliance with the requirements of the pro-
gram the Secretary, under such terms and conditions as he prescribes,
may provide a reasonable time for the adjustment of the acreage of
the commodity or land use to the requirements of the program."
SEC. 702. Section 374(c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
68 Stat. 90 4; 1938, as amended, is amended by deleting the first sentence thereof.
74 Stat. 258.
T o b a c c o allot- SEC. 703. Subsection (a) of section 316 of the Agricultural Adjust-
ments. ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended (i) by striking out of the
77 Stat. 8 1 .
7 u s e 1314b. first sentence thereof "1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965," and inserting
"1962 through 1969" and (ii) by striking out of the last sentence
thereof "1964 or 1965" and inserting "1964 through 1969".
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 316(c) and subsection
317(f) relating to lease and transfer of allotments for years subse-
75 Stat. 469; quent to 1965, of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended,
Ante, p . 66.
7 u s e 1314c. whenever acreage-poundage quotas are in effect for any kind of to-
bacco as provided in section 317 of the Act, except in the case of hurley
tobacco, and other kinds of tobacco not subject to section 316, the lease
and transfer shall be on a pound for pound basis and the acreage
allotment for the lessee farm shall be increased by an amount deter-
mined by dividing the number of pounds leased by the farm yield for
the lessee farm, and the acreage allotment for the lessor farm shall be
reduced by an amount determined by dividing the number of pounds
leased by the farm yield for the lessor farm.
P e a n u t s , defini- SEC. 704. The last paragraph of the Act entitled "An Act to amend
tion.
the peanut marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes", approved
71 Stat. 344; August 13, 1957 (7 U.S.C. 1359 note), is amended to read as follows:
77 Stat. 9 2.
"This amendment shall be effective for the 1957 through 1969 crops
of peanuts."
P a r i t y income SEC. 705. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make a study of the
study.
parity income position of farmers, including the development of
criteria for measuring parity income of commercial family farmers
and the feasibility of adapting such criteria to major types of farms
Report to e o n -
gress. and to selected counties. The Secretary shall report the results of
such study to the Congress not later than June 30, 1966.
Transfer of allot, SEC. 706. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secre-
ments, etc.
tary, upon the request of any agency of any State charged with the
administration of the public lands of the State, may permit the trans-
fer of acreage allotments or feed grain bases together with relevant
production histories which have been determined pursuant to the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, or section 16 of
79 STAT. ] PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 1211
the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, from
any farm composed of public lands to any other farm or farms in the
same county composed of public lands: Provided^ That as a condition
for the transfer of any allotment or base an acreage equal to or greater
than the allotment or base transferred prior to adjustment, if any,
shall be devoted to and maintained in permanent vegetative cover on
the farm from which the transfer is made. The Secretary shall pre-
scribe regulations which he deems necessary for the administration of
this section, which may provide for adjusting downward the size of
the allotment or base transferred if the farm to which the allotment
or base is transferred normally has a higher yield per acre for the
commodity for which the allotment or base is determined, for reason-
able limitations on the size of the resulting allotments and bases on
farms to which transfers are made, taking into account the size of the
allotments and bases on farms of similar size in the community, and
for retransferring allotments or bases and relevant histories if the
conditions of the transfer are not fulfilled.
SEC. 707. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 5 2 Stat. 31.
7 u s e 128 1.
is amended by inserting after section 378 the following new section:
«R E C O N S T I T U T I O N OF F A R M S
"SEC. 379. I n any case in which the ownership of a tract of land
is transferred from a parent farm, the acreage allotments, history
acreages, and base acreages for the farm shall be divided between
such tract and the parent farm in the same proportion that the crop-
land acreage in such tract bears to the cropland acreage in the parent
farm, except that the Secretary shall provide by regulation the method
to be used in determining the division, if any, of the acreage allot-
ments, histories, and bases in any case in which—
"(1) the tract of land transferred from the parent farm has
been or is bein^ transferred to any agency having the right to
acquire it by eminent domain;
"(2) the tract of land transferred from the parent farm is to be
used for nonagricultural purposes;
"(3) the parent farm resulted from a combination of two or
more tracts of land and records are available showing the con-
tribution of each tract to the allotments, histories, and bases of
the parent farm;
"(4) the appropriate county committee determines that a
division based on cropland proportions would result in allot-
ments and bases not representative of the operations normally
carried out on any transferred tract during the base period; or
"(5) the parent farm is divided among heirs in settling an
estate.
"(6) neither the tract transferred from the parent farm nor
the remaining portion of the parent farm receives allotments in
excess of allotments for similar farms in the community having
allotments of the commodity or commodities involved and such
allotments are consistent with good land uses, but this clause (6)
shall not be applicable in the case of hurley tobacco."
SEC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the deter- Projected
yields.
mination of farm yields the Secretary may use projected yields in lieu
of normal yields. In the determination of such yields the Secretary
shall take into account the actual yield proved by the producer for
the base period used in determining the projected yield, and the pro-
1212 PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 [79 STAT.
jectecl yield shall not be less than such actual yield proved by the
producer.
Dairy products. gj,^. 709. TliB Secretary of Agriculture is liereby authorized to
use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase sufficient
supplies of dairy products at market piices to meet the I'equirements
of any programs for the schools (other than fluid milk in the case of
schools), domestic relief distribution, community action, foreign dis-
tribution, and such other programs as are authorized by law, when
(here are insufficient stocks of dairy products in the hands of Com-
modity Credit Corporation available for these i)urposes.
T I T L E VIII—KICK
Acreage diver- ^^^, y()|^ Sectiou 85:^(c) of the Agricultural Adiustment Act of
sion program. . I T - T t ^ i T i c n •
63 Stat. 1059; 15>88, as amended, is amended by addnig the tollowmg new paragraph
69 Stat. 45; ;it the end thereof:
^'^7 use 1353. "(7) If the national acreage allotment for rice for 1966, 1967,
1968, or 1969 is less than the national acreage allotment for rice
for 1965, the Secretary shall fonnulate and carry out an acreage
diversion program for rice for such yeai- designed to support the
gross income of rice producers at a level Jiot lower than that for
1965, minus any reduction in jH'oduction costs resulting from the
reduced rice acreage. Tender such program consei'vation pay-
ments shall be made to producers who comply with their rice
acreage allotments, devote to an approved conservation use an
acreage of cropland on the fai'm equal to the number of acres
determined by multiplying the fann acreage allotment by the
diversion factor, and comply with such additional terms and
conditions as the Secretary may prescribe. The diversion factor
shall be determined by dividing the number of acres by which the
national acreage allotment is reduced below tlie national acreage
allotment for 1965 by the number of acres in the national acreage
allotment. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Secre-
tary may pennit all or any part of such diverted acreage to be
devoted to the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower,
castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, and flaxseed,
if he determines that such production is not likely to increase the
cost of the price-suppoit program and will not adversely affect
farm income, subject to the condition that payment with respect
to diverted acreage devoted to any such crops shall be at a rate
determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable, taking into
consideration the use of such acreage for the production of such
crops; but in no event shall the payment exceed one-half the rate
which otherwise would be applicable if such acreage were devoted
to conservation uses. Such program shall require the producer
to take such measures as the Secretary may deem appropriate to
keep such diverted acreage free from erosion, insects, weeds, and
rodents. The Secretary may make not to exceed 50 per centum of
any payments to producers in advance of determination of per-
formance. The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of pay-
ments under this paragraph among pro<lucers on the farm on a
fair and equitable basis as determined by the Secretary. The
Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized to utilize its capi-
tal funds and other assets for the purpose of making the x>ay-
ments authorized in this paragraph and to pay administrative
expenses necessary in carrying out this j)aragraph.''
79 STAT. ] PUBLIC LAW 89-323-NOV. 5, 1965 1213
SEC. 802. Section 403 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, ^J'st^t^'^PPgJ;
is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: " I n deter- 72 stat. 993. '
mining support prices for the 1966 and 1967 crops of rice the Secre- 7 use 1423.
tary shall, notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of
law, use head and broken rice value factors for the various varieties
which (1) are not lower than those used with respect to the 1965 crop,
and (2) QO not differ as between any two varieties by a greater amount
than the value factors used with respect to the 1965 crop for such
two varieties differed."
Approved November 3 , 1965.
Public Law 89-322
AN A C T November 4, 1965
[H. R. 9047]
To authorize the release of certain quantities of zinc from either the national
stockpile or the supplemental stockpile, or both.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes of the
United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That the Adminis- DZinc. isposal.
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by
negotiation or otherwise, from either the national stockpile established
pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act
(50 U.S.C. 98-98h) or the supplemental stockpile established pur- ^o stat. 596.
suant to section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade Development and
A.ssistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1704(b)), or from both such stock- ^s stat. 607.
piles (1) approximately two hundred thousand short tons of zinc.
The disposals authorized by this section may be made without regard
to the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials
Stock Piling Act, but the time and method of the disposals shall be
fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against
avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and con-
sumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Approved November 4, 1965.
Public Law 89-323
AN A C T November 5, 19 65
To authorize the disposal, without regard to the prescribed six-month waiting [H. R. IPSO5]
I)eriod, of approximately two hundred million pounds of nickel from the
national stockpile.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Adminis- Nickei.
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of approxi- ^sposai.
mately two hundred million pounds of nickel now held in the national
stockpile. Such disposal may be made without regard to the pro-
vision of section 3(e) of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock
Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b(e)) that no disposition of materials held ^ ^tat. 597.
in the national stockpile shall be made prior to the expiration of six
months after the publication in the Federal Kegister and the trans- p,f^"'^i\''^*i°PJ"
mission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committee of each Federal Reg;ister.
House thereof of the notice of the proposed disposition required by
said section 3 ( e ) .
Approved November 5, 1965.
