Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§1306 Projected Yields; Determination; Base Period
Title 7 › Chapter 35— AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › Subchapter II— LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part A— Definitions, Loans, Parity Payments, and Consumer Safeguards › § 1306
Summary
The Secretary may use projected yields instead of normal yields, but must count the producer’s proved base-period yield and cannot make the projection lower than that.
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Title 7, §1306
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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
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
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), 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.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 1306
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60