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 104 STAT. 3410 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 Regulations. "(A) PERCENTAGE REDUCTIONS. —Except as provided in paragraph (3), if a feed grain acreage limitation program is announced under paragraph (1), such limitation shall be achieved by applying a uniform percentage reduction (from 0 to 20 percent) to the crop acreage base for corn, grain sorghum, barley, or oats, respectively, for each feed grainproducing farm. "(B) COMPUANCE.— Except as provided in subsection (g) and section 504, producers who knowingly produce a feed grain in excess of the respective permitted feed grain acreage for the farm shall be ineligible for feed grain loans, purchases, and payments with respect to that farm. "(C) CROP ACREAGE BASES. —Feed grain crop acreage bases for each crop of feed grains shall be determined under title V. " (D) ACREAGE DEVOTED TO CONSERVATION USES. — A number of acres on the farm shall be devoted to conservation uses, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary. Such number shall be determined by multiplying the respective feed grain crop acresige base by the percentage reduction required by the Secretary. The number of acres so determined is hereafter in this subsection referred to as 'reduced acreage'. The remaining acreage is hereafter in this subsection referred to as 'permitted acreage'. Permitted acreage may be adjusted by the Secretary as provided in paragraph (3) and in section 504. " (E) INDIVIDUAL FARM PROGRAM ACREAGE. — Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), the individual farm program acreage shall be the acreage planted on the farm to feed grains for harvest within the permitted feed grain acreage for the farm as established under this paragraph. " (F) PLANTING DESIGNATED CROPS ON REDUCED ACREAGE. — "(i) DEFINITION OF DESIGNATED CROP. —As used in this subparagraph, the term 'designated crop' means a crop defined in section 504(b)(1), excluding any program crop as defined in section 502(3). "(ii) IN GENERAL. — Subject to clause (iii), the Secretary may permit producers on a farm to plant a designated crop on no more than one-half of the reduced acreage on the farm. "(iii) LIMITATIONS. —If the producers on a farm elect to plant a designated crop on reduced acreage under this subparagraph— "(I) the amount of the deficiency payment that the producers are otherwise eligible to receive under subsection (c) shall be reduced, for each acre (or portion thereof) that is planted to the designated crop, by an amount equal to the deficiency payment that would be made with respect to a number of acres of the crop that the Secretary considers appropriate, except that if the producers on the farm are participating in a program established for more than one program crop, the amount of the reduction shall be determined Ijy prorating the reduction based on the acreage planted or considered planted on the farm to all of such program crops; and

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