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PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965

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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 allotment 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, respectively, 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 abnormal 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 weather 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 USC 1427! is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding 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 required 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 transfer.^^' 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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