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PUBLIC LAW 87-703-SEPT. 27, 1962
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abnormal weather conditions, established crop-rotation practices on the farm, and such other factors as the Secretary determines should be considered, but not to exceed 15 acres, or (ii) the farm acreage allotment for the 1963 crop of wheat. Such producers may divert additional acreage on the farm not in excess of the larger of one and one-half times the amount diverted under the preceding sentence or such acreage as will bring the total acreage diverted to 10 acres: Provided, That the total acreage diverted shall not exceed the larger of (i) or (ii) of the preceding sentence. (2) Such diverted acreage shall be devoted to conservation uses including summer fallow, approved by the Secretary, and such measures shall be taken as the Secretary may deem appropriate to keep such diverted acreage free from erosion, insects, weeds, and rodents: Provided, That the Secretary may permit such diverted acreage to be devoted to the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, castor beans, and flax when such crops are not in surplus supply and will not be in surplus supply if permitted to be grown on the diverted acreage, subject to the provisions of subsection (b)(4) of this section. (3) The total acreage of cropland on the farm devoted to soilconserving uses, including summer-fallow and idle land, but excluding the acreage diverted as provided above and acreage diverted under the special program for feed grains, shall not be less than the total average acreage of cropland devoted to soilconserving uses, including summer-fallow and idle land on the farm in 1959 and 1960. Certification by the producer with respect to such acreage may be accepted as evidence of compliance with the foregoing provision. The total average acreage devoted to soil-conserving uses, including summer-fallow and idle land, in 1959 and 1960, shall be subject to adjustment to the extent the Secretary determines appropriate for abnormal weather conditions or other factors affecting production, established croprotation practices on the farm, changes in the constitution of the farm, participation in other Federal farm programs, or to give effect to the provisions of law relating to release and reapportionment or preservation of history. (4) The actual acreage planted to wheat for harvest on the farm in 1963 shall be reduced by the total amount of acres diverted under this section below whichever of the following acreages is the larger— (A) the farm acreage allotment for the 1963 crop of wheat; (B) the average acreage of the crops of wheat planted for harvest in the calendar years 1959, 1960, and 1961 with adjustments as provided above, but not to exceed 15 acres. (b)(1) Upon compliance with the conditions prescribed in subsection (a) producers on the farm shall be eligible for payments which shall be made by Commodity Credit Corporation in cash or wheat not in excess of 50 per centum of the value, at the estimated basic county support rate (available to cooperators who are not participants in the program formulated pursuant to this section) per bushel for Xumber 1 wheat for the county in which the farm is considered as being located for the administration of farm marketing quotas for wheat, of the number of bushels equal to the adjusted yield per acre of wheat for the farm, multiplied by the number of diverted acres other than acres devoted to special crops pursuant to the proviso in subsection (a)(2) of this section, payment for which shall be computed in accordance with subsection (b)(4) of this section.
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