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(I) 
by 
striking 
‘‘subsection 
(f)(6)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 
(e)(6)(A)’’ and 
(II) by striking ‘‘subsection (b) 
or (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (b)’’; 
and 
(ii) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking 
‘‘subsections (b) and (c)’’ and inserting 
‘‘subsection (b)’’; and 
(E) 
by 
redesignating 
subsections 
(d) 
through (h) as subsections (c) through (g), re-
spectively. 
(2) Section 1001A of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308–1) is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘sub-
sections (b) and (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 
(b)’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (b) or (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 
(b)’’. 
(3) Section 1001B(a) of the Food Security Act 
of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308–2(a)) is amended in the 
matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘sub-
sections (b) and (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (b)’’. 
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(4) Section 1001C(a) of the Food Security Act 
of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308–3(a)) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘title I of the Agriculture Reform, Food, and 
Jobs Act of 2013,’’ after ‘‘2008,’’. 
(d) APPLICATION.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply beginning with the 2014 crop year. 
SEC. 1604. PAYMENTS LIMITED TO ACTIVE FARMERS. 
Section 1001A of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 
U.S.C. 1308–1) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘or active personal man-
agement’’ each place it appears in subpara-
graphs (A)(i)(II) and (B)(ii); and 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘, as 
applied to the legal entity, are met by the legal 
entity, the partners or members making a sig-
nificant contribution of personal labor or active 
personal management’’ and inserting ‘‘are met 
by partners or members making a significant 
contribution of personal labor, those partners or 
members’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking subparagraph (A) and 
inserting the following: 
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‘‘(A) the landowner share-rents the land at 
a rate that is usual and customary;’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(C) the share of the payments received by 
the landowner is commensurate with the share 
of the crop or income received as rent.’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘ac-
tive personal management or’’; 
(C) in paragraph (5)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘(5)’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A per-
son’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(5) CUSTOM FARMING SERVICES.—A person’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘under usual and 
customary terms’’ after ‘‘services’’; and 
(iii) by striking subparagraph (B); 
and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) FARM MANAGERS.—A person who other-
wise meets the requirements of this subsection other 
than (b)(2)(A)(i)(II) shall be considered to be ac-
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tively engaged in farming, as determined by the Sec-
retary, with respect to the farming operation, includ-
ing a farming operation that is a sole proprietorship, 
a legal entity such as a joint venture or general 
partnership, or a legal entity such as a corporation 
or limited partnership, if the person— 
‘‘(A) makes a significant contribution of 
management to the farming operation necessary 
for the farming operation, taking into ac-
count— 
‘‘(i) the size and complexity of the 
farming operation; and 
‘‘(ii) the management requirements 
normally and customarily required by simi-
lar farming operations; 
‘‘(B) is the only person in the farming op-
eration qualifying as actively engaged in farm-
ing; 
‘‘(C) does not use the management con-
tribution under this paragraph to qualify as ac-
tively engaged in more than 1 farming oper-
ation; and 
‘‘(D) manages a farm operation that does 
not substantially share equipment, labor, or 
management with persons or legal entities that 
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