§7231 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

For the 1996 through 2002 crops, the Agriculture Secretary must offer nonrecourse marketing assistance loans to farmers for commodities grown on their farms. Loans are made under rules the Secretary sets and use the loan rates set by law. If the commodity is a contract commodity, production on a farm with eligible cropland under a production flexibility contract is eligible. For extra long staple cotton and oilseeds, any production is eligible. Farmers must follow required conservation and wetland-protection rules while the loan is in effect. The program must be run so that merging or reconstituting a farm by adding a farm without eligible cropland does not cause extra government spending.

Title 7, §7231

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(a)For each of the 1996 through 2002 crops of each loan commodity, the Secretary shall make available to producers on a farm nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for loan commodities produced on the farm. The loans shall be made under terms and conditions that are prescribed by the Secretary and at the loan rate established under section 7232 of this title for the loan commodity.

(b)The following production shall be eligible for a marketing assistance loan under subsection (a):

(1)In the case of a marketing assistance loan for a contract commodity, any production by a producer on a farm containing eligible cropland covered by a production flexibility contract.

(2)In the case of a marketing assistance loan for extra long staple cotton and oilseeds, any production.

(c)As a condition of the receipt of a marketing assistance loan under subsection (a), the producer shall comply with applicable conservation requirements under subtitle B of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3811 et seq.) and applicable wetland protection requirements under subtitle C of title XII of the Act (16 U.S.C. 3821 et seq.) during the term of the loan.

(d)The Secretary shall carry out this subchapter in such a manner that there are no additional outlays under this subchapter as a result of the reconstitution of a farm that occurs as a result of the combination of another farm that does not contain eligible cropland covered by a production flexibility contract.

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The Food Security Act of 1985, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 99–198, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1354. Subtitles B and C of title XII of the Act are classified generally to subchapters II (§ 3811 et seq.) and III (§ 3821 et seq.), respectively, of chapter 58 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 1985 Amendment note set out under section 1281 of this title and Tables.

§7231 Availability of Nonrecourse Marketing Assistance Loans