§1445d Special Wheat Acreage Grazing and Hay Program for 1978 Through 1990 Crop Years

Summary

From the 1978 crop year through 1990, the Secretary may run a special wheat acreage grazing and hay program that lets farmers use some crop acres for grazing or hay instead of selling grain. Special program means a plan that allows certain acres to be planted to wheat (or another allowed crop, not corn or grain sorghum) and used for grazing or hay. A farmer may pick up to 40% of the acres planned for wheat, feed grains, or upland cotton, or 50 acres, whichever is larger, for the program. Only hay may be harvested from those acres. The payment equals the farm’s wheat program payment yield times the number of program acres times a payment rate the Secretary sets. Those acres get no other payments or price supports, do not count against other set-aside or diversion programs, and the Secretary may make rules and run the program through the Commodity Credit Corporation.