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PUBLIC LAW 88-26-MAY 20, 1963

[77 STAT.

Public Law 88-26 May 20, 1963 [H- R. 4997]

F e e d Grain Act of 1963. 72 Stat. 994; 75 Stat. 6, 30 i; 76 Stat. 612. 7 USC 1441 note.

F e e d grain programs. Conditions of eligibility. Post, p. 45.

76 Stat. 631. 7 USC 1334 note.

Negotiable certificates.

AN ACT To extend the feed grain program.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Feed Grain Act of 1963." SEC. 2. Section 105 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended— (1) by changing the period at the end of subsection (a) to a colon and adding the following: '•'Provided, That in the case of any crop for which an acreage diversion program is in effect for feed grains, the level of price support for corn of such crop shall be at such level not less than 65 per centum or more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary determines necessary to achieve the acreage reduction goal established by him for the crop.-' (2) by adding the following new subsection (d): " (d) The provision of this subsection shall be applicable with respect to the 1964 crop and the 1965 crop of feed grains if an acreage diversion program is in effect under section 16(h) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended. The Secretary shall require as a condition of eligibility for price support on the crop of any feed grain which is included in the acreage diversion program 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 the 1964 crop or the 1965 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 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 knowingly devote an acreage on the farm to corn and grain sorghums in excess of the average acreage devoted on the farm to corn 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 to the production of wheat pursuant to the provisions of section 328 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962. Such portion of the support price for any feed grain included in the acreage diversion program 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 on the number of bushels of such feed grain determined by multiplying the actual acreage of such feed grain planted on the farm for harvest by the adjusted average yield per acre. The base period used in determining such adjusted average yield shall be the same as that used for purposes of the acreage diversion program formulated under section 16(h) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended. The Secretary may make not to exceed 50 per centum of any payments hereunder to producers in advance of determination of performance. Such payments in kind shall be made through the issuance of negotiable certificates which the Commodity Credit Corporation shall

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