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§1339c Feed Grains Diversion Programs for 1964 and Subsequent Years; Feed Grain Acreage Considered Wheat Acreage and Wheat Acreage Considered Feed Grain Acreage

Title 7 › CHAPTER 35 — AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › SUBCHAPTER II — LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part B — Marketing Quotas › subpart iii — marketing quotas—wheat › § 1339c

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Starting with the 1964 crop year, whenever a feed-grain acreage diversion program is in effect, the Secretary must allow farmers to count feed-grain acres as wheat acres and wheat acres as feed-grain acres, as long as the conditions set do not interfere with how the programs work. When letting wheat be planted instead of oats or rye, the Secretary may take into account the feed units per acre of wheat compared with oats and rye.

Title 7, §1339c

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Effective with the 1964 crop, during any year in which an acreage diversion program is in effect for feed grains, the Secretary shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, permit producers of feed grains to have acreage devoted to the production of feed grains considered as devoted to the production of wheat and producers of wheat to have acreage devoted to the production of wheat considered as devoted to the production of feed grains to such extent and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines will not impair the effective operation of the program for feed grains or wheat. In establishing terms and conditions for permitting wheat to be planted in lieu of oats and rye, the Secretary may take into account the number of feed units per acre of wheat in relation to the number of feed units per acre of oats and rye.

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1965—Pub. L. 89–321 authorized the Secretary, in establishing terms and conditions for permitting wheat to be planted in lieu of oats and rye, to take into account the number of feed units per acre of wheat in relation to the number of feed units per acre of oats and rye. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962, and not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which comprises this chapter.