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76 Stat. 622; 78 Stat. 179. 7 USC 1339.

'Cooperator."

76 Stat. 627; 78 Stat. 180. 7 USC 1379c.

76 Stat. 621. 7 USC 1335.

52 Stat. 38. 7 USC 130 1. "Projected national yield."

PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965

[79 STAT.

keting certificates shall be not less than $1.25 per bushel. For any crop of wheat planted for harvest during the calendar years 1967 through 1969 for which the diversion factor established pursuant to section 339(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is not less than 10 per centum, the total average rate of return per bushel made available to a cooperator on the estimated production of his allotment based on projected yield through loans, domestic marketing certificates, estimated returns from export marketing certificates, and diversion payments for acreage diverted pursuant to section 339(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, shall not be less than the total average rate of return per bushel made available to cooperators through loans and domestic marketing certificates for the 1966 crop. " (3) Price support shall he, made available only to cooperators, and " (4) A 'cooperator' with respect to any c-rop of wheat produced on a farm shall be a producer who (i) does not knowingly exceed (A) the farm acreage allotment foi- wheat on the farm or (B) except as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe, the farm acreage allotment for wheat on any other farm on which the producer shares in the production of wheat, and (ii) complies with the land-use requirements of section 339 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to the extent prescribed by the Secretary. No producer shall be deemed to have exceeded a farm acreage allotment for wheat if the production on the acreage in excess of the farm acreage allotment is stored pursuant to the provisions of section 379c (b), but the pi-oducer shall not be eligible to receive price support, on the wheat so stored.'"' SEC. 507. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in the calendar year 1967, section 339(a)(1) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by inserting after the words "national acreage allotment", wherever they appear, the following: "(less an acreage equal to the increased acreage allotted for 1966 pursuant to section 335) '. SEC. 508. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in the calendar year 1966, section 379c(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by inserting before the f)eriod at the end of the third sentence thereof a semicolon and the folowing: "except that in any case in which the Secretary determines that such basis would not be fair and equitable, the Secretary shall provide for such sharing on such other basis as he may determine to be fair and equitable."", and by adding at the end thereof the following: "An acreage on the farm not planted to wheat because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster shall be deemed to be an actual acreage of wheat planted for harvest for purposes of this subsection provided such acreage is not subsequently planted to any other income-producing crops during such year. Producers on any farm who have planted not less than 90 per centum of the acreage of wheat required to l>e planted in order to earn the full amount of marketing certificates for which the farm is eligible shall be deemed to have planted the entire acreage required to be planted for that purpose.'* SEC. 509. Section 301(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended as follows: (1) Paragraph (8) is amended by inserting "(A) " after "(8)"' and adding the following new subparagra])!): " (B) 'Projected national yield" as applied to any crop of wheat. shall be determined on the ba-sis of the national yield per harveste<l acre of the commodity (hiiiiiir each of the Hve calendar years immedi-

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