PUBLIC LAW 100-387—AUG. 11, 1988
102 STAT. 935
age that producers on a farm were prevented from planting to the 1988 crop of the commodity for harvest because of drought, hail, excessive moisture, or related condition in 1988, as determined by the Secretary. Such acreage may not exceed the greater of— (1) a quantity equal to the acreage on the farm planted (or prevented from being planted due to a natural disaster or other condition beyond the control of the producers) to the commodity for harvest in 1987 minus acreage actually planted to the commodity for harvest in 1988; or (2) a quantity equal to the average of the acreage on the farm planted (or prevented from being planted due to a natural disaster or other condition beyond the control of the producers) to the commodity for harvest in 1985, 1986, and 1987, minus acreage actually planted to the commodity for harvest in 1988. The Secretary shall make appropriate adjustments in applying the limitations contained in the preceding sentence to take into account crop rotation practices of the producers. (c) LIMITATIONS.—(1) The amount of payments made available to producers on a farm for a crop of a commodity under subsection (a) shall be reduced by a factor equivalent to the acreage limitation program percentage established for such crop under the Agricultural Act of 1949. (2) Payments provided under subsection (a) for a crop of a Contracts. commodity may not be made available to the producers on a farm Insurance, unless such producers enter into an agreement to obtain multiperil crop insurance, to the extent required under section 207. SEC. 203. PEANUTS, SUGAR, AND TOBACCO.
(a) DISASTER PAYMENTS.—(1) Effective only for the 1988 crops of peeinuts, sugar beets, sugarcane, and tobacco, if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that, because of drought, hail, excessive moisture, or related condition in 1988, the total quantity of the 1988 crop of the commodity that the producers on a farm are able to harvest is less than the result of multiplying 65 percent of the county average yield (or program yield, in the case of peanuts) established by the Secretary for such crop by the sum of the acreage planted for harvest and the acreage for which prevented planted credit is approved by the Secretary for such crop under subsection (b), the Secretary shall make a disaster payment available to such producers. The payment shall be made to the producers at a rate equal to— (A) 65 percent of the applicable payment level under paragraph (2), as determined by the Secretary, for any deficiency in production greater than 35 percent, but not greater than 75 percent, for the crop (or in the case of a crop of hurley tobacco or flue-cured tobacco, for any deficiency in production greater than 35 percent, but not greater than 75 percent, of the farm's effective marketing quota for 1988); and (B) 90 percent of the applicable payment level under paragraph (2), as determined by the Secretary, for any deficiency in production greater than 75 percent for the crop (or, in the case of hurley tobacco or flue-cured tobacco, for any deficiency in production greater than 75 percent of the farm's effective marketing quota for 1988). (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the payment level for a commodity shall be equal to—
7 USC 1421 note.
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