Volume 80 · 202
Public Law 89–451
To permit the planting of alternate crops on acreage which is unplanted because of a natural disaster.
Approved June 17, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit the planting of alternate crops on acreage which is unplanted because of a natural disaster.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 103(d) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by striking out of the last sentence in paragraph (3) thereof the words “income producing crop in such year.” and inserting “crop for which there are marketing quotas or voluntary adjustment programs in effect.”
Sec. 2.
Section 105(e) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended,
is amended by striking out the sentence “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 payments provided such acreage is not subsequently planted to any other income-producing crop during such year.” and inserting in lieu thereof the sentence “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 payments provided such acreage is not subsequently planted to any other crop for which there are marketing quotas or voluntary adjustment programs in effect.”
Sec. 3.
Section 379c(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,
as amended, is amended by striking out the sentence reading “an acreage on the farm not planted to wheat because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster shall be deemed to be an actual acreage of wheat planted for harvest for purposes of this subsection provided such acreage is not subsequently planted to any other income-producing crops during such year.” and inserting in lieu thereof the sentence “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 crop for which there are marketing quotas or voluntary adjustment programs in effect.”
Approved June 17, 1966.