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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part A · Chapter 35 — Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

§ 1306. Projected yields; determination; base period

Statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the determination 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 projected yield shall not be less than such actual yield proved by the producer.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Food and Agriculture Act of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–321 title VII § 708 · 79 Stat. 1187

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1306

    Pub. L. 89–321, title VII, § 708, Nov. 3, 1965, 79 Stat. 1211

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 89–321, title VII, § 708, Nov. 3, 1965, 79 Stat. 1211

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the determination Projected yields. 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-jected yield shall not be less than such actual yield proved by the producer.

  2. Agricultural Act of 1970

    Pub. L. 91–524 § 405(b) · 84 Stat. 1358

    Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 1306

    Pub. L. 91–524, § 405(b), as added by Pub. L. 93–86, temporarily inserted “(except that in the case of wheat, if the yield is abnormally low in any one of the calendar years of the base period because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, the Secretary shall take into account the actual yield proved by the producer in the other four years of such base period)” after “determining the projected yield”. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1973 Amendment note below

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 91–524, § 405(b), as added by Pub. L. 93–86, temporarily inserted “(except that in the case of wheat, if the yield is abnormally low in any one of the calendar years of the base period because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, the Secretary shall take into account the actual yield proved by the producer in the other four years of such base period)” after “determining the projected yield”. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1973 Amendment note below.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 405. Effective only with respect to the 1971, 1972, and 1973 crops of wheat, section 706, Public Law 89–321 (79 Stat. 1210), is 7 USC 1305. amended as follows: (1) by adding in the first sentence after the words “the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended,” the words “or the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended,”; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: “The term ‘acreage allotments’ as used in this section includes the domestic “Acreage allotments.” allotment for wheat.”

    Effective date note
    Pub. L. 91–524, title IV, § 405(b), as added by Pub. L. 93–86, § 1(12)(a), Aug. 10, 1973, 87 Stat. 229, provided that the amendment made by Pub. L. 91–524 is effective with respect to the 1974 through 1977 crops.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965, and not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1973—Pub. L. 91–524, § 405(b), as added by Pub. L. 93–86, temporarily inserted “(except that in the case of wheat, if the yield is abnormally low in any one of the calendar years of the base period because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, the Secretary shall take into account the actual yield proved by the producer in the other four years of such base period)” after “determining the projected yield”. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1973 Amendment note below.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective and Termination Dates of 1973 Amendment

Pub. L. 91–524, title IV, § 405(b), as added by Pub. L. 93–86, § 1(12)(a), , 87 Stat. 229, provided that the amendment made by Pub. L. 91–524 is effective with respect to the 1974 through 1977 crops.

Credits

1965–1973 · 2 acts
  1. 1965Pub. L. 89–321, title VII, § 708, , 79 Stat. 1211
  2. 1973Pub. L. 91–524, title IV, § 405(b), as added Pub. L. 93–86, § 1(12)(a), , 87 Stat. 229.
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(Pub. L. 89–321, title VII, § 708, , 79 Stat. 1211; Pub. L. 91–524, title IV, § 405(b), as added Pub. L. 93–86, § 1(12)(a), , 87 Stat. 229.)

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