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PUBLIC LAW 85-203-AUG. 28, 1957

Public Law 85-203 AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to exempt certain wheat producers from liability under the Act where all the wheat crop is fed or used for seed or food on the farm, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 335 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(f) The Secretary, upon application made pursuant to regulations prescribed by him, shall exempt producers from any obligation under this Act to pay the penalty on, deliver to the Secretary, or store the farm marketing excess with respect to any farm for any crop of wheat harvested in 1958 or any subsequent year on the following conditions: " (1) That the total wheat acreage on the farm does not exceed 30 acres: Provided, however, That this condition shall not apply to farms operated by and as part of State or county institutions or religious or eleemosynary institutions; "(2) That none of such crop of wheat is removed from such farm except to be processed for use as human food or livestock feed on such farm and none of such crop is sold or exchanged for goods or services; "(3) That such entire crop of wheat is used on such farm for seed, human food, or feed for livestock, including poultry, owned by any such producer, or a subsequent owner or operator of the farm; and "(4) That such producers and their successors comply with all regulations prescribed by the Secretary for the purpose of determining compliance wuth the foregoing conditions. Failure to comply with any of the foregoing conditions shall cause the exemption to become immediately null and void unless such failure is due to circumstances beyond the control of such producers as determined by the Secretary. In the event an exemption becomes null and void the provisions of this Act shall become applicable to the same extent as if such exemption had not been granted. No acreage planted to wheat in excess of the farm acreage allotment for a crop covered by an exemption hereunder shall be considered in determining any subsequent wheat acreage allotment or marketing quota for such farm and the estimated production from such excess acreage shall not be included in total supply and normal supply in the determination of future marketing quotas and level of price support. No producer exempted under this section shall be eligible to vote in the referendum under section 336 with respect to the next subsequent crop of wheat." SEC. 2. Section 334 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no acreage in the commercial wheat-producing area seeded to wheat for harvest as grain in 1958 or thereafter in excess of acreage allotments shall be considered in establishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments. The planting on a farm in the commercial wheat-producing area of wheat of the 1958 or any subsequent crop for which no farm wheat acreage allotment was established shall not make the farm eligible for an allotment as an old farm pursuant to the first sentence of subsection (c) of this section nor shall such farm by reason of such planting be considered ineligible for an allotment as a new farm under the second sentence of such subsection." 84352 O - 5 8 - 3 3

August 28, 1957 [S. 959]

Wheat. 52 Stat. 54. 7 USC 1335. E x e m p t i o n of producers.

7 USC 1336. 7 USC 1334.

A c r e a g e allotments. Restriction.

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