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Cropland, set84 Stat. 1369.

7 USC 1441 "°*®*

84 Stat. 1370.

PUBLIC LAW 93-86-AUG. 10, 1973

[87 STAT.

centum of the feed grain allotment. If no acreage has been planted to such feed grains for three consecutive crop years on any farm which has a feed grain allotment, such farm shall lose its feed grain allotment: Provided, That no farm feed grain allotment shall be reduced or lost through failure to plant, if the producer elects not to receive payment for such portion of the farm feed grain allotment not planted, to which he would otherw^ise be entitled under the provisions of this Act. Any such acres eliminated from any farm shall be assigned to a national pool for the adjustment of feed grain allotments as provided for in subsection (e)(2). Producers on any farm who have planted to such feed grains not less than 90 per centum of the feed grain allotment shall be considered to have planted an acreage equal to 100 per centum of such allotment. An acreage on the farm which the Secretary determines was not planted to such feed grains because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster or condition beyond the control of the producer shall be considered to be an acreage of feed grains planted for harvest. For the purpose of this paragraph, the Secretary may permit producers of feed grains to have acreage devoted to soybeans, wheat, guar, castor beans, cotton, triticale, oats, rye, or such other crops as the Secretary may deem appropriate, considered as devoted to the production of such feed grains to such extent and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines will not impair the effective operation of the program.'.". (Q) amending the last sentence of section 105(c)(1) to read as tollOWS:

"The Secretary shall permit producers to plant and graze on setaside acreage sw^eet sorghum, and the Secretary may permit, subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, all or any of the setaside acreage to be devoted to hay and grazing or the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, flaxseed, triticale, oats, rye, or other commodity, if he determines that such production is needed to provide an adequate supply, is not likely to increase the cost of the price-support program, and will not adversely atfect farm income." (C) striking out "1971, 1972, 1973" where it appears in that part which amends section 105(c)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 and inserting "1971 through 1977", and by amending the second sentence of section 105(c)(1) to read as follows: "If a setaside of cropland is in effect under this subsection (c), then as a condition of eligibility for loans, purchases, and payments on corn, grain sorghums, and, if designated by the Secretary, barley, respectively, the producers on a farm must set aside and devote to approved conservation uses an acreage of cropland equal to (i) such percentage of the feed grain allotment for the farm as may be specified by the Secretary, plus, if required by the Secretary (ii) the acreage of cropland on the farm devoted in preceding years to soil conserving uses, as determined by the Secretary." (D) amending the third sentence of section 105(c)(1) to read as follows: "The Secretary is authorized for the 1974 through 1977 crops to limit the acreage planted to feed grains on the farm to a percentage of the farm acreage allotment.", (Yi) Striking out paragraphs (1) and (3) of subsection (e), changing "bases" to "allotments" wherever it appears in paragraph (2) of subsection (e), and striking out all of subsection (F) inserting after the second sentence of section 105(c)(3) the following: "The Secretary may, in the case of programs for the 1974 through 1977 crops, pay an appropriate share of the cost of practices designed to carry out the purposes of the foregoing sentences."

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