§889 Production Control of Controlled Substances

Summary

People convicted under federal or state law of planting, growing, harvesting, or storing a controlled substance on their land lose certain federal farm benefits for that crop year and the next four crop years. Lost benefits include price supports and payments from farm programs and the Commodity Credit Corporation, farm storage loans, crop insurance, disaster payments, Farmers Home Administration loans or guarantees, and payments for storing commodities with the Commodity Credit Corporation if the commodity was produced by that person in that period and bought by the Corporation. Within 180 days after December 23, 1985, the Secretary of Agriculture must write rules to carry out this policy. The rules must define “person,” explain how to decide who is ineligible, and protect tenants and sharecroppers. Definitions: controlled substance — as defined in the federal drug law; Secretary — the Secretary of Agriculture; State — the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.