Farmers will receive payments equal to 85 percent of their base acres times their established yield times the contract payment rates. The base acres will be the 1996 base acres. The payment rates are only estimates because participation rates can change due to termination or CRP land coming back into production. This includes not planting a crop, provided that weeds are controlled. Payments can be shared in whatever manner the tenant and landlord agree upon, within the following general guidelines.
Landlords have to share in the production risk to receive any of the payment.
If there is any sharing of the risk, then there has to be sharing of the payment. In other words, with a cash rent the tenant receives all the payment, and with a crop share lease, the payment has to be shared. The sharing, however, does not have to be in the same proportion in which the crop is divided. Tenants and landlords can be changed provided state laws have been followed. The contract stays with the land and the landlord can change tenants without penalty, provided the other rules are being followed.