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PUBLIC LAW 88-297-APR. 11, 1964

[78 STAT.

TITLE II—WHEAT

f Til^n*' oi; 7 USC 1281

Special acreQZ.G r e s e r v e *

7 USC 1334,

52 Stat. 53; ^\^us*c\^334.

75 Stat. 296.

SEC. 201. Notwithstanding any other provision of law— (1) the Secretary shall not proclaim a national marketing quota for the 1965 crop of wheat and farm marketing quotas shall not be in effect for such crop of wheat; (2) the Secretary shall proclaim a national acreage allotment for the 1965 crop of wheat which shall be the number of acres which the Secretary determines will make available an adequate supply of wheat, but shall not be less than forty-nine million five hundred thousand acres. ^^^^- 202. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended as follows: ^ ^ gection 334(a) is amended by inserting; "and less the special ••*••

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acreage reserve provided for m this subsection" in the first sentence after "in this subsection"; by changing the period at the end of the first sentence to a colon and adding the following: ^''Provided further, That in establishing State acreage allotments, the acreage seeded for the production of wheat plus the acreage diverted for 1965 for any farm shall be the base acreage of wheat determined for the farm under the regulations issued by the Secretary for determining farm wheat acreage allotments for such year."; and by adding at the end of the section the following: "There shall also be made available, beginning with the 1965 crop, a special acreage reserve of not in excess of one million acres as determined by the Secretary to be desirable 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 used to make additional allotments to counties on the basis of the relative needs of counties, as determined by the Secretary, for additional allotment to make adjustments in the alloments on old wheat farms (i.e., 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 cropland 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 adjustments in any county shall not exceed the acreage made available therefor 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 purposes of making adjustments hereunder the cropland on the farm shall not include any land developed as cropland subsequent to the 1963 crop year." (2) Section 334(b) is amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a colon and adding the following: '•'• Provided further, That in establishing county acreage allotments, the acreage seeded for the production of wheat plus the acreage diverted for 1965 for any farm shall be the base acreage of wheat determined for the farm under the regulations issued by the Secretary for determining farm wheat acreage allotments for such year." (3) Section 334(c)(1) is amended by inserting "or 1965" in the third sentence, clauses (i) and (ii), after "1958" wherever it appears, and by inserting "except 1965" in the third sentence, clause (iii), after the language "any subsequent year".

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