An Act to maintain farm income, to stabilize prices and assure adequate supplies of agricultural commodities, to reduce surpluses, lower Government costs, and promote foreign trade, to afford greater economic opportunity in rural areas, and for other purposes
PL 89-321 (H.R.9811), enacted 11/03/1965

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Public Law 89-321 
A N A C T 
November 3, 1955 
To maintain farm income, to stabilize prices and assure adequate supplies of 
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agricultural commodities, to reduce surpluses, lower Government costs and 
promote foreign trade, to afford greater economic opportunity in rural areas, 
and for other purposes. 
Be if enacted hy the Senate and House of RepTe-sentative>^ of the 
Vnited States of Amer'tca in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
food and Agri. 
be cited as the "Food and Agriculture Act of 19(>5". 
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1965. 
TITLE I—DAIRY 
SEC. 101. The Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and 
amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as 
amended, is further amended by striking in subparagraph (B) of 
subsection 8c(5) all of clause (d) and inserting in lieu thereof a new 
^9 stat. 753. 
clause (d) to read as follows: 
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"(d) a further adjustment, equitably to apportion the total 
value of the milk purchased by any handler, or by all handlers, 
among producers and associations of producers, on the basis of 
their marketings of milk, which may be adjusted to reflect sales 
of such milk by any handler or by all handlers in any use classi-
fication or classifications, during a representative period of time 
which need not be limited to one year. In the event a producer 
holding a base allocated under this clause (d) shall reduce his 
marketings, such reduction shall not adversely affect liis history 
of production and marketing for the determination of future 
bases. Allocations to producers under this clause (d) may be 
transferable under an order on such terms and conditions as may 
be prescribed if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that 
transferability will be in the best interest of the public, existing 
producers, and prospective new producers. 
Any increase in class 
one base resulting from enlarged or increased consumption and 
any producer class one bases forfeited or surrendered shall first 
be made available to new producers and to the alleviation of hard-
ship and inequity among producers. In the case of any producei-
who during any accounting period delivers a portion of his milk 
to persons not fully regiilated bv the order, provision may be made 
for reducing the allocation o£ or payments to be received by, 
any such producer under this clause (d) to compensate for any 
marketings of milk to such other persons for such period or 
periods as necessarv' to insure equitable participation in market-
ings among all producers"; 
and by adding at the end of said subparagraph (B) the following: 
''Xotwithstanding the provisions of section 8c(12) and the last sen-
tence of section 8c(19) of this Act, order provisions under (d) above 
75 stat. 305. 
shall not become eff'ective in any marketing order unless separately 
approved by producers in a referendum in which each individual 
producer shall have one vote and may be terminated separately when-
ever the Secretary makes a determination with respect to such pro-
visions as is provided for the termination of an order in subparagraph 
8c(16)(B). 
Disapproval or termination of such order provisions 
shall not be considered disapproval of the order or of other terms of 
the order." 
SEC. 102. Such Act is further amended (a) by adding to subsection 
8c(5) the following new paragraph: "'(H) Marketing orders appli-
cable to milk and its |)roducts may be limited in api)lication to milk 
used for manufacturing.": and (b) by amending subsection 8c(18) by 
62 stat. 1258. 
;idding after the woi'ds "marketing area" wherever they <KCUI- the 
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[79 STAT. 
words "or, in the case of orders applying only to manufacturing milk, 
the production area". 
SEC. 103. The provisions of this title shall not be effective after 
December 31, 1969. 
SEC. 104. The legal status of producer handlers of milk under the 
legal status?' 
provlslous of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and 
amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as 
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amended, shall be the same subsequent to the adoption of the amend-
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ments made by this title as it was prior thereto. 
Termination. 
Producer han-
dlers of milk, 
notes, 674 note. 
TITLE 
II—WOOL 
Price supports. 
g^^ gQl. The National Wool Act of 1954, as amended, is amended, 
as follows: 
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(1) By deleting from section 703 "March 31,1966" and inserting in 
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lieu thereof "December 31, 1969". 
(2) By changing the period at the end of the third sentence of sec-
tion 703 to a colon and inserting the following: 
''''Provided further^ That the support price for shorn wool for the 
1966 and each subsequent marketing year shall be determined by 
multiplying 62 cents by the ratio of (i^ the average of the parity index 
(the index of prices paid by farmers, including commodities and serv-
ices, interest, taxes, and farm wage rates, as defined in section 301 
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(a) (1) (C) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended) 
for the three calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year 
in which such price support is determined and announced to (ii) the 
average parity index for the three calendar years 1958,1959, and 1960, 
and rounding the resulting amount to the nearest full cent." 
(3) By deleting the fourth sentence of section 703. 
TITLE III—FEED GRAINS 
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SEC. 301. Section 105 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
note. 
is amended by adding the following new subsection (e) : 
"(e) For the 1966 through 1969 crops of feed grains, the Secretary 
shall require, as a condition of eligibility for price support on the crop 
of any feed grain which is included in any acreage diversion program 
formulated under section 16 (i) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
Allotment Act, as amended, that the producer shall participate in 
the diversion program to the extent prescribed by the Secretary, and, 
if no diversion program is in effect for any crop, he may require as a 
condition of eligibility for price support on such crop of feed grains 
that the producer shall not exceed his feed grain base: Provided^ That 
the acreage on any farm which is diverted from the production of feed 
grains pursuant to a contract hereafter entered into under the Crop-
land Adjustment Program shall be deemed to be acreage diverted from 
the production of feed grains for purposes of meeting the foregoing 
requirements for eligibility for price support: Provided fwther^ That 
the Secretary may provide that no producer of malting barley shall 
be required as a condition of eligibility for price support for barley 
to participate in the acreage diversion program for feed grains if such 
producer has previously produced a malting variety of barley, plants 
barley only of an acceptable malting variety for harvest, does not 
knowingly devote an acreage on the farm to barley in excess of 110 per 
centum of the average acreage devoted on the farm to barley in 1959 
and 1960, does not Imowingly devote an acreage on the farm to com 
and grain sorghums in excess of the acreage devoted on the farm to 
com and grain sorghums in 1959 and 1960, and does not devote any 
acreage devoted to the production of oats and rye in 1959 and 1960 
Post, p. 1190. 
Post, p. 1206. 
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to the production of wheat pursuant to the provisions of section 328 
of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962. Such portion of the sup- 
y^rs^c'ia^qc 
port price for any feed grain included in the acreage diversion pro-
gram as the Secretary determines desirable to assure that the benefits 
of the price-support and diversion programs inure primarily to those 
producers who cooperate in reducing their acreages of feed grains 
shall be made available to producers through payments-in-kind. 
Such 
payments-in-kind shall be made available on the maximum permitted 
acreage, or the Secretary may make the same total amount available 
on a smaller acreage or acreages at a higher rate or rates. The number 
of bushels of such feed grain on which such payments-in-kind shall 
be made shall be determined by multiplying that part of the actual 
acreage of such feed grain planted on the farm for harvest on which 
the Secretary makes such payments available by the farm projected 
yield per acre: Provided^ That for purposes of such payments, the 
Secretary may permit producers of feed grains to have acreage devoted 
to soybeans considered as devoted to the production of feed grains to 
such extent and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary 
determines will not impair the effective operation of the price support 
program: Provided further^ That for purposes of such payments, pro-
ducers on any farm who have planted not less than 90 per centum of 
the acreage of feed grains permitted to be planted shall be deemed to 
have planted the entire acreage permitted. 
Notwithstanding the 
provisions of subsection (a), that portion of the support price which 
is made available through loans and purchases for the 1966 through 
1969 crops may be reduced below the loan level for the 1965 crop by 
such amounts and in such stages as may be necessary to promote 
increased participation in the feed grain program, taking into account 
increases m yields, but so as not to disrupt the feed grain and live-
stock economy: Provided^ That this authority shall not be construed 
to modify or affect the Secretary's discretion to maintain or increase 
total price support levels to cooperators. An acreage on the farm 
which the Secretary finds was not planted to feed grains because of 
drought, flood, or other natural disaster shall be deemed to be an actual 
acreage of feed grains planted for harvest for purposes of such pay-
ments provided such acreage is not subsequently planted to any other 
income-producing crop during such year. 
The Secretary may make 
not to exceed 50 per centum of any payments hereunder to producers 
in advance of determination of performance. 
Payments-in-kind shall 
be made through the issuance of negotiable certificates which the 
Commodity Credit Corporation shall redeem for feed grains (such 
feed grains to be valued by the Secretary at not less than the current 
support price made available through loans and purchases, plus rea-
sonable carrying charges) in accordance with regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Commodity Credit Corporation shall, in accordance with regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary, assist the producer in the marketing of 
such certificates. 
The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of such 
certificates among producers on the farm on the basis of their respec-
tive shares in the feed grain crop produced on the farm, or the pro-
ceeds therefrom, except that in any case in which the Secretary 
determines that such basis would not be fair and equitable, the Secre-
tary shall provide for such sharing on such other basis as he may 
determine to be fair and equitable. 
If the operator of the farm elects 
to participate in the acreage diversion program, price support for feed 
grains included in the program shall be made available to the pro-
ducers on such farm only if such producers divert from the production 
of such feed grains, in accordance with the provisions of such program, 
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an acreage on the farm equal to the number of acres which such oper-
ator agrees to divert, and the agreement shall so provide. 
In any case 
in which the failure of a producer to comply fully with the terms and 
conditions of the programs formulated under this subsection (e) and 
77 Stat. 44. 
subsectlou (d) of this section preclude the making of payments-in-
note"^*^ ^'*'*^ 
kind, the Secretary may, nevertheless, make such payments-in-kind 
in such amounts as he determines to l>e equitable in relation to the 
seriousness of the default." 
SEC. 302. Section 16 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot-
49 Stat. 163, 
ment Act, as amended, is amended by adding the following new 
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subsection: 
" (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law— 
"(1) For the 1966 through 1969 crops of feed grains, if the 
Secretary determines that the total supply of feed grains will, 
in the absence of an acreage diversion program, likely be exces-
sive, taking into account the need for an adequate carryover to 
maintain reasonable and stable supplies and prices of feed grains 
and to meet any national emergency, he may formulate and carry 
out an acreage diversion program for feed grains, w^ithout regard 
to provisions which would be applicable to the regular agricul-
tural conservation program, under which, subject to such terms 
Conservation 
and couditlons as the Secretary determines, conservation payments 
paymen s. 
shall be made to producers who divert acreage from the produc-
tion of feed grains to an approved conservation use and increase 
their average acreage of cropland devoted in 1959 and 1960 to 
designated soil-conserving crops or practices including summer 
fallow and idle land by an equal amount. 
Payments shall be 
made at such rate or rates as the Secretary determines will pro-
vide producers with a fair and reasonable return for the acreage 
diverted, but not in excess of 50 per centum of the estimated basic 
county support rate, including the lowest rate of payment-in-
kind, on the normal production of the acreage diverted from 
the commodity on the farm based on tlie farm projected yield 
per acre. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Secre-
tary may permit all or any part of sucli diverted acreage to be 
devoted to the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, 
castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, and flaxseed, 
if he determines that such production of the commodity is needed 
to provide an adequate supply, is not likely to increase the cost 
of the price support program, and will not adversely affect farm 
income subject to the condition that payment with respect to 
diverted acreage devoted to any such crop shall be at a rate deter-
mined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable, taking into 
consideration the use of such acreage for the pi'oduction of such 
crops, but in no event shall tlie payment exceed one-half the rate 
which otherwise would be applicable if such acreage were devoted 
"Feed grains." 
to conservatlon uses. The term 'feed grains' means corn, grain 
sorghums, and, if designated by the Secretary, barley, and if for 
any crop the producer so requests for purposes of having acreage 
devoted to the production of wheat considered as devoted to the 
production of feed grains, pursuant to the ]>rovisions of section 
76^|tat.^63L 
328 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962, the term 'feed 
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grains' shall include oats and rye and barley if not designated 
by the Secretary as provided above: Provided. That acreages 
of corn, grain sorghums, and, if designated by the Secretary, bar-
ley, shall not be planted in lieu of acreages of oats and rye and 
barley if not designated by the Secretary as provided above: 
Provided further. That tlie acreage devoted to the production of 
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wheat shall not be considered as an acreage of feed grains for 
purposes of establishing the feed grain base acreage for the farm 
for subsequent crops. 
Such feed grain diversion program shall 
require the producer to take such measures as the Secretary may 
deem appropriate to keep such diverted acreage free from erosion, 
insects, weeds, and rodents. The acreage eligible for partici-
pation in the program shall be such acreage (not to exceed 50 
per centum of the average acreage on the farm devoted to feed 
grains in the crop years 1959 and 1960 or twenty-five acres, which-
ever is greater) as the Secretary determines necessary to achieve 
the acreage reduction goal for the crop. 
Payments shall be made 
in kind. 
The acreage of wheat produced on the farm during 
the crop years 1959, 1960, and 1961, pursuant to the exemption 
provided in section 335(f) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
of 1938, as amended, prior to its repeal by the Food and Agricul- 
71 stat. 477. 
ture Act of 1962, in excess of the small farm base acreage for 
wheat established under section 335 of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, may be taken into consideration 
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in establishing the feed grain base acreage for the farm. 
The 
Secretary may make such adjustments in acreage as he deter-
mines necessary to correct for abnormal factors affecting produc-
tion, and to give due consideration to tillable acreage, crop-rota-
tion practices, types of soil, soil and water conservation measures, 
and topography. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
subsection (i) (1), the Secretary may, upon unanimous request of 
the State committee established pursuant to section 8(b) of the 
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, 
i^uscs^^'h 
adjust the feed grain bases for farms within any State or county 
to the extent he determines such adjustment to be necessary in 
order to establish fair and equitable feed grain bases for farms 
within such State or county. 
The Secretary may make not to 
exceed 50 per centum of any payments to producers in advance 
of determination of performance. 
Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this subsection, barley shall not be included in the 
program for a producer of malting barley exempted pursuant 
to section 105(e) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, who partici- 
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pates only with respect to corn and grain sorghums and does not 
knowingly devote an acreage on the farm to barley in excess of 
110 per centum of the average acreage devoted on the farm to 
barley in 1959 and 1960. 
"(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, 
not to exceed 1 per centum of the estimated total feed grain bases 
for all farms in a State for any year may be reserved from the feed 
grain bases established for farms in the State for apportionment 
to farms on which there were no acreages devoted to feed grains 
in the crop years 1959 and 1960 on the basis of the following fac-
tors : Suitability of the land for the production of feed grains, the 
past experience of the farm operator in the production of feed 
grains, the extent to which the farm operator is dependent on 
income from farming for his livelihood, the production of feed 
grains on other farms owned, operated, or controlled by the farm 
operator, and such other factors as the Secretary determines 
should be considered for the purpose of establishing fair and 
equitable feed grain bases. An acreage equal to the feed grain 
base so established for each farm shall be deemed to have been 
devoted to feed grains on the farm in each of the crop years 1959 
and 1960 for purposes of this subsection except that producers on 
such farm shall not be eligible for conservation payments for the 
first year for which the feed grain base is established. 
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"(3) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such 
amounts as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out 
this section 16 (i). 
" (4) The Secretary shall provide by regulations for the sharing 
of payments under this subsection among producers on the farm 
on a fair and equitable basis and in keeping with existing 
contracts. 
"(5) Payments in kind shall be made through the issuance of 
negotiable certificates which the Commodity Credit Corporation 
shall redeem for feed grains in accordance with regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary and, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall, in accordance 
with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, assist the producer 
in the marketing of such certificates. 
Feed grains with which 
Commodity Credit Corporation redeems certificates pursuant to 
this paragraph shall be valued at not less than the current support 
price made available through loans and purchases, plus reasonable 
carrying charges. 
"(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secre-
tary may, by mutual agreement with the producer, terminate or 
modify any agreement previously entered into pursuant to this 
subsection if he determines such action necessary because of an 
emergency created by drought or other disaster, or in order to 
prevent or alleviate a shortage in the supply of feed grains." 
SEC. 303. Section 326 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962, as 
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amended, is amended by deleting the language beginning with "the 
requirements" and ending with "Agricultural Act of 1961, and" and 
substituting therefor "the requirements of any program under which 
price support is extended or payments are made to farmers, and price 
support may be extended or". 
TITLE IV—COTTON 
SEC. 401. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
is amended as follows: 
78 Stat. 173. 
(J) Sectiou 348 of the Act is amended by adding the following new 
sentences at the end thereof: "The Secretary may extend the period for 
performance of obligations incurred in connection with payments 
made for the period ending July 31,1966, or may make payments on 
raw cotton in inventory on July 31, 1966, at the rate in effect on such 
date. 
No payments shall be made hereunder with respect to 1966 crop 
cotton." 
63 Stat. 674. 
(2) Sectiou 346 of the Act is amended by adding at the end thereof 
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a new subsection as follows: 
"(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for the 1966, 
1967, 1968, and 1969 crops of upland cotton, if the farm operator 
elects to forgo price support for any such crop of cotton by applying 
to the county committee of the county in which the farm is located 
for additional acreage under this subsection, he may plant an acreage 
not in excess of the farm acreage allotment established under section 
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344 pi^g ^jj^e acreage apportioned to the farm from the national 
export market acreage reserve, and all cotton of such crop produced 
on the farm may be marketed for export free of any penalty under 
this section: Provided^ That the foregoing shall be applicable only 
to farms which had upland cotton allotments for 1965 and are operated 
by the same operator as in 1965 or by his heir. 
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"For the 1966 crop the national export market acreage reserve shall 
be 250,000 acres. For each subsequent crop— 
If the carryover at the end of the marketing year 
for the preceding crop is estimated to be less than 
The 
national 
export 
the carryover at the beginning of such marketing 
market acreage reserve 
year by— 
shall be— 
At least 1,000,000 bales 
2.50, 000 acres. 
At least 750,000 bales, but not as much as 1,000,000 bales 
187, 500 acres. 
At least 500,000 bales, but not as much as 750,000 bales 
125, 000 acres. 
At least 250,000 bales, but not as much as 500,000 bales 
62, 500 acres. 
Less than 250,000 bales 
None. 
"The national export market acreage reserve shall be apportioned to 
farms by the Secretary on the basis of tlie applications therefor. No 
application shall be accepted for a greater acreage than is available on 
the farm for the production of upland cotton. After apportionments 
are thus made to farms, the Secretary shall provide farm operators a 
reasonable time in which to cancel their applications (and agreements 
to forgo price support) and surrender to the Secretary through the 
county committee the export market acreage assigned to the farm. 
Acreage so surrendered shall be available for reassignment by the Sec-
retary to other eligible farms to which export market acreage has been 
apportioned on the basis of the applications remaining outstanding. 
The operator of any farm who elects to forgo price support for any 
such crop under this subsection shall not be eligible for price support 
on cotton of such crop produced on any other farm in which he has a 
controlling or substantial interest as determined by the Secretary. 
Acreage planted to cotton in excess of the farm acreage allotment 
established under section 344 shall not be taken into account in estab- 
63 stat. ero. 
lishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments. The opera- 
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tor of any farm to which export market acreage is apportioned, or the 
purchasers of cotton produced on such farm, shall, under regulations 
issued by the Secretary, furnish a bond or other undertaking prescribed 
by the Secretary providing for the exportation, without benefit of any 
Government cotton export subsidy and within such time as the Secre-
tary may specify, of all cotton produced on such farm for such year. 
The bond or other undertaking given pursuant to this subsection shall 
provide that, upon failure to comply with the terms and conditions 
thereof, the person furnishing such bond or other undertaking shall be 
liable for liquidated damages in an amount which the Secretary deter-
mines and specifies in such undertaking will approximate the amount 
payable on excess cotton under subsection (a). The Secretary may, in 
lieu of the furnishing of a bond or other undertaking, provide for the 
payment of an amount equal to that which would be payable as liqui-
dated damages under such bond or other undertaking. If such bond 
or other undertaking is not furnished, or if payment in lieu thereof is 
not made as provided herein, at such time and in the manner required 
by regulations of the Secretary, or if the acreage planted to cotton on 
the farm exceeds the sum of the farm acreage allotment established 
under section 344 and the acreage apportioned to the farm from the 
national export market acreage reserve, the acreage planted to cotton 
in excess of the farm acreage allotment established under section 344 
shall be regarded as excess acreage for purposes of this section and 
section 345. Amounts collected by the Secretary under this subsection 
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shall be remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation." 
(3) Section 350 of the Act is amended, effective with the 1966 crop, 
78 stat. 175. 
to read as follows: 
"SEC. 350. In order to afford producers an opportunity to partici-
pate in a program of reduced acreage and higher price support, as 
provided in section 103 (d) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
the Secretary shall determine a national domestic allotment for the 
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1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969 crops of upland cotton equal to the esti-
mated domestic consumption of upland cotton (standard bales of four 
hundred and eighty pounds net weight) for the marketing year begin-
ning in the year in which the crop is to be produced. 
The Secretary 
shall determine a farm domestic acreage allotment percentage for ea<;li 
such year by dividing (1) the national domestic allotment (in net 
weight pounds) by (2) the total for all States of the product of the 
State acreage allotment and the projected State yield. 
The farm 
domestic acreage allotment shall be established by multiplying the 
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farm acreage allotment established under section 344 by the farm 
domestic acreage allotment percentage: Provided^ That no farm domes-
tic acreage allotment shall be less than 65 per centum of such farm 
acreage allotment. 
Such national domestic allotment shall be deter-
mined not later than October 15 of the calendar year preceding the 
year in which the crop is to be produced; except that in the case of 
the 1966 crop, such determination shall be made within 15 days after 
enactment of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965." 
SEC. 402. (a) Section 103 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as 
78 ^sfa^'iM^' 
amended, is amended by adding the following new subsection at the 
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end thereof: 
"(d) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if pro-
ducers have not disapproved marketing quotas, price support and 
diversion payments shall be made available for the 1966, 1967, 1968, 
and 1969 crops of upland cotton as provided in this subsection. 
"(2) Price support for each such crop of upland cotton shall be 
made available to cooperators through loans at such level, not exceed-
ing a level which will reflect for Middling one-inch upland cotton at 
average location in the United States 90 per centum of the estimated 
average world market price for Middling one-inch upland cotton for 
the marketing year for such crop, as the Secretary determines will 
provide orderly marketing of cotton during the harvest season and 
will retain an adequate share of the world market for cotton produced 
in the L'nited States taking into consideration the factors specified in 
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section 401(b) of this Act: Provided^ That the national average loan 
rate for the 1966 crop shall reflect 21 cents per pound for Middling 
one-inch upland cotton. 
"(3) The Secretary also shall provide additional price support for 
each such crop through payments in cash or in kind to cooperators 
at a rate not less than 9 cents per pound: Procided^ That the rate shall 
be such that the amount obtained by— 
(i) multiplying the rate by the farm domestic acreage allot-
ment percentage, and 
(ii) dividing the product thus obtained by the cooperator })er-
centage established under section 408(b), and 
(iii) adding the result thus obtained to the national average 
loan rate 
shall not be less than 65 per centum or more than 90 per centum of 
the parity price for cotton as of the month in which the payment 
rate provided for by this paragraph is announced. 
Such payments 
shall be made on the quantity of cotton determined by multiplying 
the projected farm yield by the acreage planted to cotton within 
the farm domestic acreage allotment: Provided^ That any such fai-m 
planting not less than 90 per centum of such domestic acreage allot-
ment shall be deemed to have planted the entire amount of such allot-
ment. An acreage on a farm in any such year which the Secretary 
finds was not planted to cotton because of drought, flood, or other 
natural disaster shall be deemed to be planted to cotton for purposes 
of payments under this subsection if such acreage is not subsequentlx-
devoted to any other income-producing crop in such year. 
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Post, p. 1197. 
Ante, p. 1193. 
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" (4) The Secretary shall make diversion payments in cash or in kind 
in addition to the price support payments authorized in paragraph (3) 
to cooperators who reduce their cotton acreage by diverting a portion 
of their cotton acreage allotment from the production of cotton to 
approved conservation practices to the extent prescribed by the Secre-
tary: Provided, That no reduction below the domestic acreage allot-
ments established under section 850 of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act of 1938, as amended, shall be prescribed: Provided further^ That 
payment under this paragraph shall be made available for diverting to 
conserving uses that part of the acreage allotment which must be 
diverted from cotton in order that the producer may qualify as a coop-
erator. The rate of payment for acreage required to be diverted in 
order to qualify as a cooperator shall not be less than 25 per centum of 
the parity price for upland cotton as of the month in which such rate 
is announced. The rate of payment for additional acreage diverted 
shall be such rate as the Secretary determines to be fair and reasonable, 
but shall not exceed 40 per centum of such parity price. Payment at 
each applicable rate shall be made on the quantity of cotton determined 
by multiplying the acreage diverted from the production of cotton 
at such rate by the projected farm yield. In addition to the foregoing 
payment, if any, payment at the rate applicable for acreage required 
to be diverted to qualify as a cooperator shall be made to producers 
on small farms as defined in section 408(b) who do not exceed their 
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farm acreage allotments on a quantity of cotton determined by 
multiplying an acreage equal to 35 per centum of such farm acreage 
allotment by the projected farm yield. 
"(5) The Secretary may make not to exceed 50 per centum of the 
payments under this subsection to producers in advance of determina-
tion of performance and the balance of such payments shall be made 
at such time as the Secretary may prescribe. 
"(6) Where the farm operator elects to participate in the diversion 
program authorized in this subsection and no acreage is planted to cot-
ton on the farm, diversion payments shall be made at the rate estab-
lished under paragraph (4) for acreage required to be diverted to 
qualify as a cooperator on the quantity of cotton determined by multi-
plying that part of the farm acreage allotment required to be diverted 
to qualify as a cooperator by the projected farm yield, and the re-
mainder of such allotment may be released under the provisions of 
section 344 (m) (2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
amended. 
The acreage on which payment is made under this para- 
7^us*c*'i344' 
graph shall be regarded as planted to cotton for purposes of estab-
lishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments, and farm 
bases. 
"(7) Payments in kind under this subsection shall be made through 
the issuance of certificates which the Commodity Credit Corporation 
shall redeem for cotton under regulations issued by the Secretary at 
a value per pound equal to not less than the current loan rate therefor. 
The Corporation may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, 
assist the producers in the marketing of such certificates at such times 
and in such manner as the Secretary determines will best effectuate the 
purposes of the program authorized by this subsection. 
"(8) Payments under this subsection shall be conditioned on the 
farm having an acreage of approved conservation uses equal to the 
sum of (i) the reduction in cotton acreage required to qualify for 
such payments (hereinafter called "diverted acreage"), and (ii) the 
average acreage of cropland on the farm devoted to designated soil-
conserving crops or practices, including summer fallow and idle land, 
during a base period prescribed by the Secretary: Provided, 
That 
the Secretary may permit all or any part of such diverted acreage 
to be devoted to the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower. 
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[79 STAT. 
castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plaiitago o\ato, and flaxseed, if 
he determines that such production is necessary to provide an ade-
quate supply of such commodities, is not likely to increase the cost of 
the price support program, and will not adversely affect farm income, 
subject to the condition that payment under paragraph (4) or (6) 
with respect to diverted acreage devoted to any such crop shall be at a 
rate determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable, taking into 
consideration the use of such acreage for the production of such crops, 
but in no event shall the payment exceed one-half the rate which other-
wise would be applicable if such acreage were devoted to conser\^a-
tion uses. 
"(9) The acreage regarded as planted to cotton on any farm which 
qualifies for payment under this subsection except under paragraph 
(6) shall, for purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm 
acreage allotments and farm bases, be the farm acreage allotment 
established under section 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
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1938, as amended, excluding adjustments under subsection (m) (2) 
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thereof. 
"(10) The Secretary shall provide adequate safeguards to protect 
the interests of tenants and sharecroppers, including provision for 
sharing diversion payments on a fair and equitable basis under this 
subsection. The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of price sup-
port payments among producers on the farm on the basis of theii-
respective shares in the cotton crop produced on the farm, or the pro-
ceeds therefrom, except that in any case in which the Secretary 
determines that such basis would not be fair and equitable, the Secre-
tary shall provide for such sharing on such other basis as he may 
determine to be fair and equitable. 
" (11) In any case in which the failure of a producer to comply fully 
with the terms and conditions of the programs formulated under this 
Act preclude the making of payments under this section, the Secretary 
may, nevertlieless, make such payments in such amounts as he deter-
mines to be equitable in relation to the seriousness of the default. 
"(12) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if, as a 
result of limitations hereafter enacted with respect to price support 
under this subsection, the Secretary is unable to make available to all 
cooperators the full amount of price support to which they would 
otherwise be entitled under paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection 
for any crop of upland cotton, (A) price support to cooperators shall 
be made available for such crop (if marketing quotas have not been 
disapproved) through loans or purchases at such level not less than 65 
per centum nor more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor as 
the Secretary determines appropriate; (B) in order to keep upland 
cotton to the maxinmm extent practicable in the normal channels of 
trade, such price support may be carried out through the simultaneous 
purchase of cotton at the support price therefor and resale at a lower 
price or through loans under which the cotton would be redeemable by 
payment of a price therefor lower than the aniount of the loan thereon ; 
and (C) such resale or redemption price shall be such as the Secretary 
determines will provide orderly marketing of cotton during the harvest 
season and will retain an adequate share of the world market for cotton 
produced in the United States. 
"(13) The provisions of subsection 8(g) of the Soil Conservation 
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'^^^ Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (relating to assi^-nment of 
payments), shall also apply to payments under this subsection. 
"(14) The Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized to utilize 
its capital funds and other assets for the purpose of making the pay-
ments authorized in this subsection and to i)ay administrative ex])enses 
necessarv in carrvinji' out this subsection."" 
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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 
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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 allot-
ment 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) : 
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"(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, respec-
tively, 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 ab-
normal 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 w^eather 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." 
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SEC. 404. Section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
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is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstand-
ing 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 re-
quired 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 
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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 tran'sfer.^^' 
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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[79 STAT. 
any other owner or operator of a farm for transfer to such farm; (2) 
may permit the owner of a farm to transfer all or any part of such 
allotment to any other farm owned or controlled by him: Provided^ 
That the authority granted under this section may be exercised for 
the calendar years'^ 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969, but all transfers here-
under shall be for such period of years as the parties thereto may 
agree. 
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"(b) Trausfers under this section shall be subject to the following 
conditions: (i) no allotment shall be transferred to a farm in another 
State or to a person for use in another State; (ii) no farm allotment 
may be sold or leased for transfer to a farm in another county unless 
the producers of cotton in the county from which transfer is being-
made have voted in a referendum within three years of the date of such 
transfer, by a two-thirds majority of the producers participating in 
such referendum, to permit the transfer of allotments to farms outside 
the county, which referendum, insofar as practicable, shall be held in 
conjunction with the marketing quota referendum for the commodity; 
(iii) no transfer of an allotment from a farm subject to a mortgage 
or other lien shall be permitted unless the transfer is agreed to by the 
lienholder; (iv) no sale of a farm allotment shall be permitted if any 
sale of cotton allotment to the same farm has been made within the 
three immediately preceding crop years; (v) the total cotton allotment 
for any farm to which allotment is transferred by sale or lease shall not 
exceed the farm acreage allotment (excluding reapportioned acreage) 
established for such farm for 1965 by more than one hundred acres; 
(vi) no cotton in excess of the remaining acreage allotment on the farm 
shall be planted on any farm from which the allotment (or part of 
an allotment) is sold for a period of five years following such sale, 
nor shall any cotton in excess of the remaining acreage allotment on 
the farm be planted on any farm from which the allotment (or part 
of an allotment) is leased during the period of such lease, and the 
producer on such farm shall so agree as a condition precedent to the 
Secretary's approval of any such sale or lease; and (vii) no transfer 
of allotment shall be effective until a record thereof is filed with the 
county committee of the county to which such transfer is made and 
such committee determines that the transfer complies with the provi-
sions of this section. Such record may be filed with such committee 
only during the period beginning June 1 and ending December 31. 
"(c) The transfer of an allotment shall have the effect of trans-
ferring also the acreage history, farm base, and marketing quota 
attributable to such allotment and if the transfer is made prior to the 
determination of the allotment for any year the transfer shall include 
the right of the owner or operator to have an allotment determined 
for the farm for such year: Provided, That in the case of a transfer 
by lease, the amount of the allotment shall be considered for purposes 
of determining allotments after the expiration of the lease to have been 
planted on the farm from which such allotment is transferred. 
"(d) The land in the farm from which the entire cotton allotment 
and acreage history have been transferred shall not be eligible for <
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new farm cotton allotment during the five years following the year in 
which such transfer is made. 
" (e) The transfer of a portion of a farm allotment which was estab-
lished under minimum farm allotment provisions for cotton or which 
operates to bring the farm within the minimum farm allotment provi-
sion for cotton shall cause the minimum fann allotment or base to be 
reduced to an amount equal to the allotment remaining on the farm 
after such transfer. 
Regulations. 
i*(-f) ^\^Q Secretary shall prescribe regulations for the administra-
tion of this section, which shall include provisions for adjusting the 
size of the allotment transferred if tlie farm to wliich the allotment is 
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transferred has a substantially higher yield per acre and such other 
terms and conditions as he deems necessary. 
"(g) If the sale or lease occurs during a period in which the farm 
is covered by a conservation reserve contract, cropland conversion 
agreement, cropland adjustment agreement, or other similar land utili-
zation agreement, the rates of payment provided for in the contract 
or agreement of the farm from which the transfer is made shall be 
subject to an appropriate adjustment, but no adjustment shall be made 
in the contract or agreement of the farm to which the allotment is 
transferred. 
"(h) The Secretary shall by regulations authorize the exchange 
between farms in the same county, or between farms in adjoining 
counties within a Stat«, of cotton acreage allotment for rice acreage 
allotment. 
Any such exchange shall be made on the basis of applica-
tion filed with the county committee by the owners and operators of 
the farms, and the transfer of allotment between the farms shall 
include transfer of the related acreage history for the commodity. 
The exchange shall be acre for acre or on such other basis as the Sec-
retary determines is fair and reasonable, taking into consideration the 
comparative productivity of the soil for the farms involved and other 
relevant factors. 
No farm from which the entire cotton or rice allot-
ment has been transferred shall be eligible for an allotment of cotton 
or rice as a new farm within a period of five crop years after the date 
of such exchange. 
"(i) The provisions of this section relating to cotton shall apply 
only to upland cotton." 
TITLE V—WHEAT 
SEC. 501. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in 
the calendar year 1966, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is amended as follows: 
(1) Section 332 is amended by changing item (iv) in subsection (b) 
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to read: "will be utilized during Such marketing year in the United 
States as livestock (including poultry) feed, excluding the estimated 
quantity of wheat which will be utilized for such purpose as a result of 
the substitution of wheat for feed grains under section 328 of the Food 
and Agriculture Act of 1962" and by adding the following new 
y^us^c^'iasg^c 
subsection: 
"(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secre-
tary shall not proclaim a national marketing quota for the crops of 
wheat planted lor harvest in the calendar years 1966 through 1969, and 
farm marketing quotas shall not be in effect for such crops of wheat." 
(2) Section 333 is amended to read as follows: "The Secretary shall 
76 stat. 62o. 
proclaim a national acreage allotment for each crop of wheat. The 
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amount of the national acreage allotment for any crop of wheat shall 
be the number of acres which the Secretary determines on the basis of 
the projected national yield and expected underplantings (acreage 
other than that not harvested because of program incentives) of farm 
acreage allotments will produce an amount of wheat equal to the 
national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year for such 
crop, or if a national marketing quota was not proclaimed, the quota 
which would have been determined if one had been proclaimed. 
(3) Subsection (a) of section 334 is amended to read as follows: 
7^us*c*'i33^4 
"(a) The national allotment for wheat, less a reserve of not to 
National aiiot. 
exceed 1 pei" centum thereof for apportionment as provided in this sub- '"^"t-
section and less the special acreage reserve provided for in this subsec-
tion, shall be apportioned by the Secretary among the States on the 
basis of the preceding year's allotment for each such State, including 
all amounts allotted to the State and including for 1967 the increased 
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7 u s e 1335. 
acreage in the State allotted for 1966 under section 335, adjusted to 
the extent deemed necessary by the Secretary to establish a fair and 
ec[uitable apportionment base for each State, taking into considera-
tion established crop rotation practices, estimated decrease in farm 
allotments because of loss of history, and other relevant factors. The 
reserve acreage set aside herein for apportionment by the Secretary 
shall be used to make allotments to counties in addition to the county 
allotments made under subsection (b) of this section, on the basis of 
the relative needs of counties for additional allotments because of 
reclamation and other new areas coming into production of wheat. 
There also shall be made available a special acreage reserve of not in 
excess of one million acres as determined by the Secretary to be desir-
able for the purposes hereof which shall be in addition to the national 
acreage reserve provided for in this subsection. Such special acreage 
reserve shall be made available to the States to make additional allot-
ments to counties on the basis of the relative needs of counties, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, for additional allotments to make adjustments 
in the allotments on old wheat farms (that is, farms on which wheat 
has been seeded or regarded as seeded to one or more of the three 
crops immediately preceding the crop for which the allotment is 
established) on which the ratio of wheat acreage allotment to crop-
land on the farm is less than one-half the average ratio of wheat 
acreage allotment to cropland on old wheat farms in the county. 
Such adjustments shall not provide an allotment for any farm which 
would result in an allotment-cropland ratio for the farm in excess of 
one-half of such county average ratio and the total of such adjust-
ments in any county shall not exceed the acreage made available there-
for in the county. 
Such apportionment from the special acreage 
reserve shall be made only to counties where wheat is a major income-
producing crop, only to farms on which there is limited opportunity 
for the production of an alternative income-producing crop, and only 
if an efficient farming operation on the farm requires the allotment 
of additional acreage from the special acreage reserve. For the pur-
poses of making adjustments hereunder the cropland on the farm shall 
not include any land developed as cropland subsequent to the 1963 
crop year." 
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^^) Subsection (b) of section 334 is amended to read as follows: 
Apportionment 
"(b) The State acreage allotment for wheat, less a reserve of not 
among counties. 
^Q excecd 3 pcr ceutum thereof for apportionment as provided in 
subsection (c) of this section, shall be apportioned by the Secretary 
among the counties in the State, on the basis of the preceding year's 
wheat allotment in each such county, including for 196Y the increased 
acreage in the county allotted for 1966 pursuant to section 335, ad-
justed to the extent deemed necessarjr by the Secretary in order to 
establish a fair and equitable apportionment base for each county, 
taking into consideration established crop rotation practices, estimated 
decrease in farm allotments because of loss of history, and other 
relevant factors." 
(5) Subsection (c) of section 334 is amended by adding new para-
graphs (3) and (4) to read as follows: 
"(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this sub-
section, the past acreage of wheat for 1967 and any subsequent year 
shall be the acreage of wheat planted, plus the acreage regarded as 
planted, for harvest as grain on the farm which is not in excess of 
the farm acreage allotment. 
"(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection (c), 
the farm acreage allotment for the 1967 and any subsequent crop of 
wheat shall be established for each old farm by apportioning the 
county wheat acreage allotment among farms in the county on which 
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wheat has been planted, or is considered to have been planted, for 
harvest as grain m any one of the three years immediately preceding 
the year for which allotments are determined on the basis of past 
acreage of wheat and the farm acreage allotment for the year im-
mediately preceding the year for which the allotment is bein^ estab-
lished, adjusted as hereinafter provided. 
For purposes of this para-
graph, the acreage allotment for the immediately preceding year may 
be adjusted to reflect established crop-rotation practices, may be ad-
justed downw^ard to reflect a reduction in the tillable acreage on the 
farm, and may be adjusted upward to reflect such other factors as 
the Secretary determines should be considered for the purpose of es-
tablishing a fair and equitable allotment: Provided^ That (i) for the 
purposes of computing the allotment for any year, the acreage allot-
ment for the farm for the immediately preceding year shall be de-
creased by 7 per centum if for the year immediately preceding the 
year for which such reduction is made neither a voluntary diversion 
program nor a voluntary certificate program was in effect and there 
was noncompliance with the farm acreage allotment for such year; 
(ii) for purposes of clause (i), any farm on which the entire amount 
of farm marketing excess is delivered to the Secretary, stored, or ad-
justed to zero in accordance with applicable regulations to avoid or 
postpone payment of the penalty when farm marketing quotas are in 
effect, shall be considered in compliance with the allotment, but if any 
part of the amount of wheat so stored is later depleted and penalty 
becomes due by reason of such depletion, the allotment for such farm 
next computed after determination of such depletion shall be reduced 
by reducing the allotment for the immediately preceding year by 7 
per centum; and (iii) for purposes of clause (i) if the Secretary deter-
mines that the reduction in the allotment does not provide fair and 
equitable treatment to producers on farms following special crop rota-
tion practices, he may modify such reduction in the allotment as he 
determines to be necessary to provide fair and equitable treatment to 
such producers." 
(6) Subsection (d) of section 334 is repealed, 
(7) Subsection (g) of section 334 is amended by striking out the 
language "except as prescribed in the provisos to the first sentence of 
subsections (a) and (b), respectively, of this section" in the first 
sentence, 
(8) Section 335 is amended by adding at the end thereof the follow-
ing: "This section shall not be applicable to the crops planted for 
harvest in 1967 and subsequent years." 
(9) Section 339(b) is amended (1) by striking out "1964 and 1965 
crops of wheat" and substituting "crops of wheat planted for harvest 
in the calendar years 1964 through 1969"; and, (2) by striking out of 
the third sentence "20 per centum of the farm acreage allotment" and 
"fifteen acres" and substituting "50 per centum of the farm acreage 
allotment" and "twenty-five acres", respectively. 
(10) Section 339 (e) is amended to read as follows: " (e) The Secre- 
Diverted 
tary may permit all or any part of the diverted acreage to be devoted 
to the production of guar, sesame, safiiower, sunflower, castor beans, 
mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, and flaxseed, if he determines 
that such production of the commodity is needed to provide an ade-
quate supply, is not likely to increase the cost of the price-support 
program and will not adversely affect farm income, subject to the 
condition that payment with respect to diverted acreage devoted to 
any such crop shall be at a rate determined by the Secretary to be 
fair and reasonable taking into consideration the use of such acreage 
for the production of such crops: Provided^ That in no event shall 
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80; 
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1335. 
1339. 
acreage. 
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the payment exceed one-half the rate which otherwise would be 
applicable if such acreage were devoted to conservation uses." 
SEC. 502. Effective only with respect to the crops of wheat planted 
for harvest in the calendar years 1966 through 1969, and the market-
ing years for such crops, section 3'r9b is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 379b. A wheat marketing allocation program as provided in 
this subtitle shall be in effect for the marketing years for the crops 
planted for harvest in the calendar years 1966 through 1969. When-
ever a wheat marketing allocation program is in effect for any market-
ing year the Secretary shall determine (1) the wheat marketing alloca-
tion for such year which shall be the amount of wheat he estimates 
will be used during such year for food products for consumption in 
the United States, but the amount of wheat included in the marketing 
allocation for food products for consumption in the United States 
shall not be less than five hundred million bushels, and (2) the national 
allocation percentage for such year which shall be the percentage 
which, when applied to the farm as provided in this section, will result 
in marketing certificates being issued to producers in the amount of 
the national wheat marketing allocation. 
The cost of any domestic 
marketing certificates issued to producers in excess of the number of 
certificates acquired by processors as a result of the application of tlie 
five hundred million bushel minimum or an overestimate of the amount 
of -vyheat used during such year for food products for consumption 
in the United States shall be borne by Commodity Credit Corporation, 
Each farm shall receive a wheat marketing allocation for such market-
ing year equal to the number of bushels obtained by multiplying the 
number of acres in the farm acreage allotment for wheat by the 
projected farm yield, and multiplying the resulting number of bushels 
by the national allocation percentage." 
SEC. 503. Effective beginning with the 1970 crop, section 379b is 
amended by striking out "normal yield of wheat for the farm as deter-
mined by the Secretary" and substituting "projected farm yield". 
SEC. 504. (a) Effective upon the enactment of this Act, section 
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379d (b) is amended by striking out the third sentence and substituting 
the following: "The Secretary may exempt from the requirements of 
this subsection wheat exported for donation abroad and other non-
commercial exports of wheat, wheat processed for use on the farm 
where grown, wheat produced by a State or agency thereof and proc-
essed for use by the State or agency thereof, wheat processed for 
donation, and wheat processed for uses determined by the Secretary 
to be noncommercial. 
Such exemptions may be made applicable with 
respect to any wheat processed or exported beginning July 1, 1964. 
There shall be exempt from the requirements of this subsection bever-
age distilled from wheat prior to July 1, 1964. A beverage distilled 
from wheat after July 1, 1964, shall be deemed to be removed for sale 
or consumption at the time it is placed in barrels for aging except 
that upon the giving of a bond as prescribed by the Secretary, the 
purchase of and payment for such marketing certificates as may be 
required may be deferred until such beverage is bottled for sale. 
Wheat shipped to a Canadian port for storage in bond, or storage 
under a similar arrangement, and subsequent exportation, shall be 
deemed to have been exported for purposes of this subsection when 
it is exported from the Canadian port." 
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(^) Section 379d(d) is amended by inserting after the word "flour" 
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the following: " (excluding flour second clears not used for human con-
sumption as determined by the Secretary)", and by inserting at the 
end thereof the following: "The Secretary may at his election admin-
ister the exemption for wheat processed into flour second clears 
through refunds either to processors of such wheat or to the users 
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1203 
of such clears. For the purpose of such refunds, the wheat equivalent 
of flour second clears may be determined on the basis of conversion fac-
tors authorized by section 379f of the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
of 1938, even though certificates had been surrendered on the basis of 
76 stat. (529. 
the weight of the wheat." 
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This subsection shall be effective as to products sold, or removed for 
Effective date, 
sale or consumption on or after sixty days following enactment of this 
Act, unless the Secretary shall by regulation designate an earlier 
effective date within such sixty-day period. 
(c) Section 379d(b) is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
y^ul^c^uyVd 
following: "Whenever the face value per bushel of domestic market-
ing certificates for a marketing year is different from the face value 
of domestic marketing certificates for the preceding marketing year, 
the Secretary may require marketing certificates issued for the preced-
ing marketing year to be acquired to cover all w^heat processed into 
food products during such preceding marketing year even though 
the food product may be marketed or removed for sale or consumption 
after the end of the marketing year." 
(d) Section 379g is amended by inserting " ( a ) " after "SEC. 379g" 
76^stat. 629. 
and adding a new subsection (b) as follows: 
^' 
"(b) Whenever the face value per bushel of domestic marketing 
certificates for a marketing year is substantially difi'erent from the face 
value of domestic marketing certificates for the preceding marketing 
year, the Secretary is authorized to take such action as he determines 
necessary to facilitate the transition between marketing years. 
Not-
withstanding any other provision of this subtitle, such authority shall 
include, but shall not be limited to, the authority to sell certificates to 
persons engaged in the processing of wheat into food products cover-
ing such quantities of wheat, at such prices, and under such terms and 
conditions as the Secretary may by regulation provide. Any such 
certificate shall be issued by Commodity Credit Corporation." 
SEC. 505. The Agricultural Act of 1964 is amended as follows: 
(1) Amendment (7) of section 202 is amended by striking out 
7
8 stat. 179. 
"1964 and 1965" and substituting "the calendar years 1964 through n^te^ 
^^^^ 
1969". 
(2) Amendment (13) of section 202 is amended by striking out 
7 use 1379c 
"only with respect to the crop planted for harvest in the calendar "°*^" 
year 1965" and substituting "with respect to the crops planted for 
harvest in the calendar years 1965 through 1969". 
(3) Section 204 is amended by striking out "1964 and 1965" and 
7 use 1427 
substituting "1964 through 1969". 
"°*^-
SEC. 506. Effective only with respect to the 1966 through 1969 crops, 
section 107 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
1445a), is amended to read as follows: 
7
8 stat. is 2. 
"SEC. 107. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 101 of this 
Act, for any marketing year— 
63 stat. 
" ( l ) ( a ) Price support for wheat accompanied by domestic 
certificates shall be at 100 per centum of the parity price or as near 
thereto as the Secretary determines practicable, and (b) price 
support for wheat not accompanied by marketing certificates shall 
be at such level, not in excess of the parity price therefor, as the 
Secretary determines appropriate, taking into consideration com-
petitive world prices of wheat, the feeding value of wheat in rela-
tion to feed grains, and the level at which price support is made 
available for feed grains, 
"(2) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), for the 
1966 crop, price support for wheat accompanied by domestic mar-
keting certificates shall be at 100 per centum of the parity price 
therefor, and price support for wheat not accompanied by mar-
1051. 
use 1441. 
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[79 STAT. 
76 Stat. 622; 
78 Stat. 179. 
7 u s e 1339. 
'Cooperator." 
76 Stat. 627; 
78 Stat. 180. 
7 u s e 1379c. 
76 Stat. 621. 
7 use 1335. 
52 Stat. 38. 
7 use 130 1. 
"Projected na-
tional yield." 
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 acre-
age diverted pursuant to section 339(a) of the Agricultural Ad-
justment 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 pro-
ducer 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 Adjust-
ment 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 pursu-
ant to section 335) '. 
SEO. 508. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in 
the calendar year 1966, section 379c(a) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment 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 fol-
owing: "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-produc-
ing 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 tliat purpose.'* 
SEC. 509. Section 301(b) of the Agi'icultural 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 commoditv (hiiiiiir each of the Hve calendar vears immedi-
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1205 
ately preceding the year in which such projected national yield is deter-
mined, adjusted for abnormal weather conditions affecting such yield, 
for trends in yields and for any significant changes in production 
practices." 
(2) Paragraph (13) is amended by adding the following new 
7\j|*c*'i3'^i 
subparagraphs: 
"(J) 'Projected county yield' for any crop of wheat shall be deter- 
"Projected^ 
mined on the basis of the yield per harvested acre of such commodity ''°""*^ ^'^ 
in the county during each of the five calendar years immediately pre-
ceding the year in which such projected county yield is determined, 
adjusted for abnormal weather conditions affecting such yield, for 
trends in yields and for any significant changes in production practices. 
"(K) 'Projected farm yield' for any crop of wheat shall be deter- .^'^Projected farm 
mined on the basis of the yield per harvested acre of such commodity 
on the farm during each of the three calendar years immediately pre-
ceding the year in which such projected farm yield is determined, 
adjusted for abnormal w^eather conditions affecting such yield, for 
trends in fields and for any significant changes in production prac-
tices, but m no event shall such projected farm yield be less than the 
normal yield for such farm as provided in subparagraph (E) of this 
paragraph." 
7
o stat. 212. 
SEC, 510. (a) Section 379c(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
of 1938, as amended, is amended, effective beginning with the 1966 
^^ ^
*
^
*
- ^27; 
crop, by striking out of the fifth sentence the words 'formal yield of 
7 use fa^c. 
wheat per acre established for the farm" and substituting therefor the 
words projected farm yield". 
(b) Section 379i of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
amended, is amended, effective as of the effective date of the original 
^ "^^ 13791. 
enactment of that section, by inserting in subsections (a) and (b) 
after the word "who", wherever it appears, the word "knowingly". 
SEC. 511. (a) Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest 
in 1966, paragraph (9) of section 301(b) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by striking out "cotton" and 
"wheat" and by adding at the end thereof the following: " 'Normal 
production' as applied to any number of acres of cotton or wheat means 
the projected farm yield times such number of acres." 
(b) Public Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress, as amended, is 
7^usc*i34o' 
amended by changing the words "normal yield of wheat per acre 
established for the farm" in paragraph (1) to the words "projected 
farm yield". 
SEC. 512. The national. State, county, and farm acreage allotments 
for the 1966 crop of w'heat shall be established in accordance with the 
provisions of law in effect prior to the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 513. (a) Section 379d(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
of 1938 is amended by striking out the second sentence and substituting 
^^us^c* 137 ^
d 
the following: "The cost of the export marketing certificates per bushel 
to the exporter shall be that amount determined by the Secretary on 
a daily basis which would make LTnited States wheat and wheat 
flour generally competitive in the world market, avoid disruption of 
world market prices, and fulfill the international obligations of the 
United States." 
(b) Section 379c (a) of such Act is amended by striking out every-
thing in the next to the last sentence beginnmg with the words 
"United States" and substituting the following: "United States. The 
Secretary shall also provide for the issuance of export marketing cer-
tificates to eligible producers at the end of the marketing year on a pro 
rata basis. For such purposes, the value per bushel of export market-
ing certificates shall be an average of the total net proceeds from the 
sale of export marketing certificates during the marketing year after 
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[79 STAT. 
deducting the total amount of wheat export subsidies paid to 
exporters." 
rus*c*i379^c 
(^) Section 379c(c) of such Act is amended by striking out "and 
the face value per bushel of export certificates shall be the amount by 
which the level of price support for wheat accompanied by export 
certificates exceeds the level of price support for noncertificate wheat". 
Tu^c'^issVc 
^^^' ^^^- Section 328 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 is 
amended by adding to the end thereof the following: "In establishing 
terms and conditions for permitting wheat to be planted in lieu of 
oats and rye, the Secretary may take into account the number of feed 
units per acre of wheat in relation to the number of feed units per acre 
of oats and rye." 
SEC. 515. Section 379c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
76 Stat. 627. 
^g amended, is amended, effective beginning with the crop planted for 
harvest in the calendar year 1964, by adding the following subsection: 
" (e) In any case in which the failure of a producer to comply fully 
with the terms and conditions of the programs formulated under this 
Act preclude the issuance of marketing certificates, the Secretary may, 
nevertheless, issue such certificates in such amounts as he determines 
to be equitable in relation to the seriousness of the default." 
SEC. 516. Section 379e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
7 use i379e. 
^g amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, Commodity 
Credit Corporation shall sell marketing certificates for the marketing 
years for the 1966 through the 1969 wheat crops to persons engaged in 
the processing of food products at the face value thereof less any 
amount by which price support for wheat accompanied by domestic 
certificates exceeds $2 per bushel." 
!^'^!n!:fl\^^°^^^ 
SEC. 517. Subsection (b) of section 379c of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938 is amended by inserting immediately preceding 
the words "stored" wherever it appears, in the fourth through the sixth 
sentences, the words "delivered to the Secretary or", and by adding at 
the end thereof the following: "Any wheat delivered to the Secre-
tary hereunder shall become the property of the United States and 
shall be disposed of by the Secretary for relief purposes in the United 
States or in foreign countries or in such other manner as he shall 
determine will divert it from the normal channels of trade and com-
merce. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secre-
tary may provide that a producer shall not be eligible to receive mar-
keting certificates, or may adjust the amount of marketing certificates 
to be received hj the producer, with respect to any farm for any year 
in which a variety of wheat is planted on the farm which has been 
determined by the Secretary, after consultation with State Agricul-
tural Experiment Stations, agronomists, cereal chemists and other 
qualified technicians, to have undesirable milling or baking qualities 
and has made public announcement thereof." 
TITLE 
VI—CROPLAND 
ADJUSTMENT 
^^^s^tai" 1 
^^^' ^^^- "^^^ ^^^1 Bank Act of 1956, as amended, is hereby re-
7 use 1801' 
pealed, except that it shall remain in effect with respect to contracts 
"ote- 
entered into prior to such repeal. 
r^Zll?^'^^^ "^"^ 
SEC. 602. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 
purpose of reducing the costs of farm programs, assisting farmers 
in turning their land to nonagricultural uses, promoting the devel-
opment and conservation of the Nation's soil, water, forest, wildlife, 
and recreational resources, establishing, protecting, and conserving 
open spaces and natural beauty, the Secretary of Agriculture is au-
thorized to formulate and carry out a program during the calendar 
for relief pur 
poses 
producers. 
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1207 
years 1965 through 1969 under which agreements would be entered 
into with producers as hereinafter provided for periods of not less 
than five nor more than ten years. No agreement shall be entered 
into under this section concerning land with respect to which the 
ownership has changed in the three-year period preceding the first 
year of the agreement period unless the new ownership was acquired 
by will or succession as a result of the death of the previous owner, or 
unless the new ownership was acquired prior to January 1,1965, under 
other circumstances which the Secretary determines, and specifies by 
regulation, will give adequate assurance that such land was not ac-
quired for the purpose of placing it in the program: Provided^ That 
this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the continuation of an 
agreement by a new owner after an agreement has once been entered 
into under this section: Provided further^ That the Secretary shall not 
require a person who has operated the land to be covered by an agree-
ment under this section for as long as three years preceding the date of 
the agreement and who controls the land for the agreement period to 
own the land as a condition of eligibility for entering into the 
agreement." 
(b) The producer shall agree (1) to carry out on a specifically 
Land use. 
designated acreage of land on the farm regularly used in the produc-
tion of crops (including crops, such as tame hay, alfalfa, and clovers, 
which do not require annual tillage and which have been planted 
within five years preceding the date of the agreement), hereinafter 
called "designated acreage", and maintain for the agreement period 
practices or uses which will conserve soil, water, or forest resources, 
or establish or protect or conserve open spaces, natural beauty, wild-
life or recreational resources, or prevent air or water pollution, in sucli 
manner as the Secretary may prescribe (priority being given to the 
extent practicable to practices or uses which are most likely to result 
in permanent retirement to noncrop uses) ; (2) to maintain in con-
serving crops or uses or allow to remain idle throughout the agreement 
period the acreage normally devoted to such crops or uses; (3) not 
to harvest any crop from or graze the designated acreage during the 
agreement period, unless the Secretary, after certification by the Gov-
ernor of the State in which such acreage is situated of the need for 
grazing or harvesting of such acreage, determines that it is necessary 
to permit grazing or harvesting in order to alleviate damage, hard-
ship, or suffering caused by severe drought, flood, or other natural dis-
aster, and consents to such grazing or harvesting subject to an appro-
priate reduction in the rate of payment; and (4) to such additional 
terms and conditions as the Secretary determines are desirable to 
effectuate the purposes of the program, including such measures as the 
Secretary may deem appropriate to keep the designated acreage free 
from erosion, insects, weeds, and rodents. Agreements entered into 
under which 1966 is the first year of the agreement period (A) shall 
require the producer to divert from production all of one or more crops 
designated by the Secretary; and (B) shall ndt provide for diversion 
from the production of upland cotton in any county in which the 
county committee by resolution determines, and requests of the Sec-
retary, that there should not be such diversion in 1966. 
(c) Under such agreements the Secretary shall (1) bear such part 
Federal costs. 
of the average cost (including labor) for the county or area in which 
the farm is situated of establishing and maintaining authorized prac-
tices or uses on the designated acreage as the Secretary determines to 
be necessary to effectuate the purposes of the program, but not tb 
exceed the average rate for comparable practices or uses under the 
agricultural conservation program, and (2) make an annual adjust- 
Annual adjust-
ment payment to the producer for the period of the agreement at ""^"^ payment. 
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[79 STAT. 
Advertising and 
bid procedures. 
Annual adj ust-
tnent payment, 
limitation. 
Agreements, 
termination or 
modification. 
Allotment 
histories. 
Repeal. 
74 Stat. 1030; 
7 6 Stat. 606. 
16 u s e 590p. 
5 2 Stat. 31. 
16 u s e 590h. 
such rate or rates as the Secretary determines to be fair and reason-
able in consideration of the obligations undertaken by the producers. 
The rate or rates of annual adjustment payments as determined here-
under may be increased by an amount determined by the Secretary 
to be appropriate in relation to the benefit to the general public of 
the use of the designated acreage if the producer further agrees to 
permit, without other compensation, access to such acreage by the 
general public, during the agreement period, for hunting, trapping, 
fishing, and hiking, subject to applicable State and Federal regula-
tions. 
The Secretary and the producer may agree that the annual 
adjustment payments for all years of the agreement period shall be 
made either upon approval of the agreement or in such installments 
as they may agree to be desirable: Provided^ That for each year any 
annual adjustment payment is made in advance of performance, 
the annual adjustment payment shall be reduced by 5 per centum. 
The Secretary may provide for adjusting any payment on account 
of failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the program. 
(d) The Secretary shall, unless he determines that such action will 
be inconsistent with the effective administration of the program, use 
an advertising and bid procedure in determining the lands in any area 
to be covered by agreements. 
The total acreage placed under contract 
in any county or local community shall be limited to a percentage of 
the total eligible acreage in such county or local community which the 
Secretary determines would not adversely affect the economy of the 
county or local community. 
In determining such percentage the Sec-
retary shall give appropriate consideration to the productivity of the 
acreage being retired as compared to the average productivity of 
eligible acreage in the county or local community. 
(e) The annual adjustment payment shall not exceed 40 per centum 
of the estimated value, as determined by the Secretary, on the basis 
of prices in effect at the time the agreement is entered into, of the 
crops or types of crops which might otherwise be grown. 
The esti-
mated value may be established by the Secretary on a county, area, or 
individual farm basis as he deems appropriate. 
(f) The Secretary may terminate any agreement with a producer 
by mutual agreement with the producer if the Secretary determines 
that such termination would be in the public interest, and may agree 
to such modification of agreements as he may determine to be desirable 
to carry out the purposes of the program or facilitate its administra-
tion. 
(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Agricillture may, to the extent he deems it desirable, provide by appro-
priate regulations for preservation of cropland, crop acreage, and 
allotment history applicable to acreage diverted from the production 
of crops in order to establish or maintain vegetative cover or other 
approved practices for the purpose of any Federal program under 
which such history is used as a basis for an allotment or other limita-
tion or for participation in such program. 
Subsections (b) (3) and 
(4) and (e) (6) of section 16 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
Allotment Act, as amended, are repealed, except that all rights accru-
ing thereunder to persons who entered into contracts or agreements 
prior to such repeal shall be preserved. 
(h) In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall utilize the 
services of local, county, and State committees established under sec-
tion 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as 
amended. 
(i) For the purpose of obtaining an increase in the permanent 
retirement of cropland to noncrop uses the Secretary may, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, transfer funds available for 
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PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 
1209 
carrying out the program to any otliei- Federal agency or to States or 
local government agencies for use in acquiring cropland for the pres-
ervation of open spaces, natural beauty, the development of wildlife or 
recreational facilities, or the prevention of air or water pollution 
under terms and conditions consistent with and at costs not greater 
than those under agreements entered into with producers, provided 
the Secretary determines that the puri)oses of the program will be 
accomplished by such action. 
(j) The Secretary also is authorized to share the cost with State 
and local governmental agencies in the establishment of practices or 
uses which will establish, protect, and conserve open spaces, natural 
beauty, wildlife or recreational resources, or prevent air or water pol-
lution under terms and conditions and at costs consistent with those 
under agreements entered into with producers, pro\ided the Secretary 
determines that the purposes of the progi-am will be accomplished by 
such action. 
(k) In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall not during 
any of the fiscal years ending June 80, 1966 through June 30, 1968 or 
during the period June 30, 1968 througli December 31,1969, enter into 
agreements with producers which would re(iuire i)ayments to pro-
ducers in any calendar year under such agreements in excess of 
$225,000,000 plus any amount by which agreements entered into in 
prior fiscal years require payments in amounts less than authorized for 
such prior fiscal years. For purposes of aj)plying this limitation, the 
annual adjustment payment shall be cluirgea})le to the year in which 
performance is rendered I'egardless of tlie year in which it is made. 
(1) The Secretary is authorized to utilize the facilities, services. 
Commodity 
authorities, and funds of the Commodity (^redit Corporation in dis- tion/use°af°'^^' 
charging his functions and responsibilities under this program, includ- facilities. 
ing payment of costs of administration : Pror'ided. That after Decem-
ber 31, 1966, the Connnodity Credit Corporation shall not make any 
expenditures for carrying o\U the purposes of this title unless the 
Corporation has received funds to cover such expenditures from 
appropriations made to carry out the purposes of this title. 
There are 
hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out the program, including such amounts as may be required 
to make payments to the Corporation for its actual costs incurred or 
to be incurred under this program. 
(m) In case any producer who is entitled to any payment or com-
pensation dies, becomes incompetent, or disappeai-s before receiving 
such payment or compensation, or is succeeded by another who renders 
or completes the required performance, the payment or compensation 
shall, without regard to any other provisions of law, be made as the 
Secretary may determine to be fair and reasonable in all the circum-
stances and so provide by regulations. 
(n) The Secretary shall provide adeijuate safeguards to protect 
the interests of tenants and sharecroppers, in<']uding provision for 
sharing, on a fair and equitable basis, in payments or compensation 
under 'this program. 
(o) The acreage on any farm which is diverted from the produc-
tion of any commodity pursuant to an agreement hereafter entered into 
under this title shall be deemed to be acreage diverted from that com-
modity for the purposes of any conmiodity program under which 
diversion is required as a condition of eligibility for price support. 
(p) The Secretary may, without regard to the civil service laws. 
Advisory Board 
appoint an Advisory Board on Wildlife to advise and consult on pointment^' ^ 
matters relating to his functions under this title as he deems appro-
priate. The Board shall consist of twelve persons <^hosen from mem-
bers of wildlife organizations, farm organizations, State game and 
49-850 0-66—79 
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[79 STAT. 
fish agencies, and representatives of the general public. Members of 
such Advisory Board who are not regular full-time employees of the 
United States shall not be entitled to any compensation or expenses, 
(q) The Secretary shall prescribe such reflations as he determines 
necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. 
Commodity or 
land use, acreage 
measurement. 
5 2 Stat. 65. 
7 u s e 1374. 
68 Stat. 90 4; 
74 Stat. 258. 
Tobacco allot-
ments. 
77 Stat. 81. 
7 u s e 1314b. 
75 Stat. 469; 
Ante, p. 66. 
7 u s e 1314c. 
Peanuts, defini-
tion. 
71 Stat. 344; 
77 Stat. 9 2. 
Parity income 
study. 
Report to eon-
gress. 
Transfer of allot, 
ments, etc. 
TITLE VII—MISCELLANEOUS 
SEC. 701. Section 374(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) The Secretary shall provide for ascertaining, by measurement 
or otherwise, the acreage of any agricultural commodity or land 
use on farms for which the ascertainment of such acreage is neces-
sary to determine compliance under any program administered by 
the Secretary. Insofar as practicable, the acreage of the commodity 
and land use shall be ascertained prior to harvest, and, if any acreage 
so ascertained is not in compliance with the requirements of the pro-
gram the Secretary, under such terms and conditions as he prescribes, 
may provide a reasonable time for the adjustment of the acreage of 
the commodity or land use to the requirements of the program." 
SEC. 702. Section 374(c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended, is amended by deleting the first sentence thereof. 
SEC. 703. Subsection (a) of section 316 of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended (i) by striking out of the 
first sentence thereof "1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965," and inserting 
"1962 through 1969" and (ii) by striking out of the last sentence 
thereof "1964 or 1965" and inserting "1964 through 1969". 
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 316(c) and subsection 
317(f) relating to lease and transfer of allotments for years subse-
quent to 1965, of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
whenever acreage-poundage quotas are in effect for any kind of to-
bacco as provided in section 317 of the Act, except in the case of hurley 
tobacco, and other kinds of tobacco not subject to section 316, the lease 
and transfer shall be on a pound for pound basis and the acreage 
allotment for the lessee farm shall be increased by an amount deter-
mined by dividing the number of pounds leased by the farm yield for 
the lessee farm, and the acreage allotment for the lessor farm shall be 
reduced by an amount determined by dividing the number of pounds 
leased by the farm yield for the lessor farm. 
SEC. 704. The last paragraph of the Act entitled "An Act to amend 
the peanut marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes", approved 
August 13, 1957 (7 U.S.C. 1359 note), is amended to read as follows: 
"This amendment shall be effective for the 1957 through 1969 crops 
of peanuts." 
SEC. 705. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make a study of the 
parity income position of farmers, including the development of 
criteria for measuring parity income of commercial family farmers 
and the feasibility of adapting such criteria to major types of farms 
and to selected counties. The Secretary shall report the results of 
such study to the Congress not later than June 30, 1966. 
SEC. 706. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secre-
tary, upon the request of any agency of any State charged with the 
administration of the public lands of the State, may permit the trans-
fer of acreage allotments or feed grain bases together with relevant 
production histories which have been determined pursuant to the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, or section 16 of 
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PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 
1211 
the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, from 
any farm composed of public lands to any other farm or farms in the 
same county composed of public lands: Provided^ That as a condition 
for the transfer of any allotment or base an acreage equal to or greater 
than the allotment or base transferred prior to adjustment, if any, 
shall be devoted to and maintained in permanent vegetative cover on 
the farm from which the transfer is made. The Secretary shall pre-
scribe regulations which he deems necessary for the administration of 
this section, which may provide for adjusting downward the size of 
the allotment or base transferred if the farm to which the allotment 
or base is transferred normally has a higher yield per acre for the 
commodity for which the allotment or base is determined, for reason-
able limitations on the size of the resulting allotments and bases on 
farms to which transfers are made, taking into account the size of the 
allotments and bases on farms of similar size in the community, and 
for retransferring allotments or bases and relevant histories if the 
conditions of the transfer are not fulfilled. 
SEC. 707. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
is amended by inserting after section 378 the following new section: 
5 2 Stat. 31. 
7 u s e 128 1. 
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RECONSTITUTION OF FARMS 
"SEC. 379. In any case in which the ownership of a tract of land 
is transferred from a parent farm, the acreage allotments, history 
acreages, and base acreages for the farm shall be divided between 
such tract and the parent farm in the same proportion that the crop-
land acreage in such tract bears to the cropland acreage in the parent 
farm, except that the Secretary shall provide by regulation the method 
to be used in determining the division, if any, of the acreage allot-
ments, histories, and bases in any case in which— 
"(1) the tract of land transferred from the parent farm has 
been or is bein^ transferred to any agency having the right to 
acquire it by eminent domain; 
"(2) the tract of land transferred from the parent farm is to be 
used for nonagricultural purposes; 
"(3) the parent farm resulted from a combination of two or 
more tracts of land and records are available showing the con-
tribution of each tract to the allotments, histories, and bases of 
the parent farm; 
"(4) the appropriate county committee determines that a 
division based on cropland proportions would result in allot-
ments and bases not representative of the operations normally 
carried out on any transferred tract during the base period; or 
"(5) the parent farm is divided among heirs in settling an 
estate. 
"(6) neither the tract transferred from the parent farm nor 
the remaining portion of the parent farm receives allotments in 
excess of allotments for similar farms in the community having 
allotments of the commodity or commodities involved and such 
allotments are consistent with good land uses, but this clause (6) 
shall not be applicable in the case of hurley tobacco." 
SEC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the deter- 
Projected 
mination of farm yields the Secretary may use projected yields in lieu 
of normal yields. In the determination of such yields the Secretary 
shall take into account the actual yield proved by the producer for 
the base period used in determining the projected yield, and the pro-
yields. 
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PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
jectecl yield shall not be less than such actual yield proved by the 
producer. 
Dairy products. 
gj,^. 709. TliB Secretary of Agriculture is liereby authorized to 
use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase sufficient 
supplies of dairy products at market piices to meet the I'equirements 
of any programs for the schools (other than fluid milk in the case of 
schools), domestic relief distribution, community action, foreign dis-
tribution, and such other programs as are authorized by law, when 
(here are insufficient stocks of dairy products in the hands of Com-
modity Credit Corporation available for these i)urposes. 
TITLE VIII—KICK 
Acreage diver- 
^^^, y()|^ Sectiou 85:^(c) of the Agricultural Adiustment Act of 
sion program. 
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^'^7 use 1353. 
"(7) If the national acreage allotment for rice for 1966, 1967, 
1968, or 1969 is less than the national acreage allotment for rice 
for 1965, the Secretary shall fonnulate and carry out an acreage 
diversion program for rice for such yeai- designed to support the 
gross income of rice producers at a level Jiot lower than that for 
1965, minus any reduction in jH'oduction costs resulting from the 
reduced rice acreage. Tender such program consei'vation pay-
ments shall be made to producers who comply with their rice 
acreage allotments, devote to an approved conservation use an 
acreage of cropland on the fai'm equal to the number of acres 
determined by multiplying the fann acreage allotment by the 
diversion factor, and comply with such additional terms and 
conditions as the Secretary may prescribe. 
The diversion factor 
shall be determined by dividing the number of acres by which the 
national acreage allotment is reduced below tlie national acreage 
allotment for 1965 by the number of acres in the national acreage 
allotment. 
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Secre-
tary may pennit all or any part of such diverted acreage to be 
devoted to the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, 
castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, and flaxseed, 
if he determines that such production is not likely to increase the 
cost of the price-suppoit program and will not adversely affect 
farm income, subject to the condition that payment with respect 
to diverted acreage devoted to any such crops shall be at a rate 
determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable, taking into 
consideration the use of such acreage for the production of such 
crops; but in no event shall the payment exceed one-half the rate 
which otherwise would be applicable if such acreage were devoted 
to conservation uses. Such program shall require the producer 
to take such measures as the Secretary may deem appropriate to 
keep such diverted acreage free from erosion, insects, weeds, and 
rodents. The Secretary may make not to exceed 50 per centum of 
any payments to producers in advance of determination of per-
formance. 
The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of pay-
ments under this paragraph among pro<lucers on the farm on a 
fair and equitable basis as determined by the Secretary. 
The 
Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized to utilize its capi-
tal funds and other assets for the purpose of making the x>ay-
ments authorized in this paragraph and to pay administrative 
expenses necessary in carrying out this j)aragraph.'' 
79 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-323-NOV. 5, 1965 
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SEC. 802. Section 403 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
^J'st^t^'^PPgJ; 
is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: "In deter- 72 stat. 993. ' 
mining support prices for the 1966 and 1967 crops of rice the Secre- 
7 use 1423. 
tary shall, notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of 
law, use head and broken rice value factors for the various varieties 
which (1) are not lower than those used with respect to the 1965 crop, 
and (2) Q
O not differ as between any two varieties by a greater amount 
than the value factors used with respect to the 1965 crop for such 
two varieties differed." 
Approved November 3, 1965. 
Public Law 89-322 
AN A C T 
November 4, 1965 
[H. R. 9047] 
Zinc. 
Disposal. 
To authorize the release of certain quantities of zinc from either the national 
stockpile or the supplemental stockpile, or both. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That the Adminis-
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by 
negotiation or otherwise, from either the national stockpile established 
pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act 
(50 U.S.C. 98-98h) or the supplemental stockpile established pur- ^o stat. 596. 
suant to section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
A.ssistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1704(b)), or from both such stock- 
^s stat. 607. 
piles (1) approximately two hundred thousand short tons of zinc. 
The disposals authorized by this section may be made without regard 
to the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials 
Stock Piling Act, but the time and method of the disposals shall be 
fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against 
avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and con-
sumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets. 
Approved November 4, 1965. 
Public Law 89-323 
A N A C T 
November 5, 19 65 
To authorize the disposal, without regard to the prescribed six-month waiting 
[H. R. IPSO5] 
I)eriod, of approximately two hundred million pounds of nickel from the 
national stockpile. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Adminis- 
Nickei. 
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of approxi- 
^sposai. 
mately two hundred million pounds of nickel now held in the national 
stockpile. 
Such disposal may be made without regard to the pro-
vision of section 3(e) of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock 
Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b(e)) that no disposition of materials held 
^ ^tat. 597. 
in the national stockpile shall be made prior to the expiration of six 
months after the publication in the Federal Kegister and the trans- p,f^"'^i\''^*i°PJ" 
mission to the Congress and to the Armed Services Committee of each 
House thereof of the notice of the proposed disposition required by 
said section 3(e). 
Approved November 5, 1965. 
Federal Reg;ister.