§7956 Planting Flexibility

Summary

You may plant any crop on land listed as peanut base acres, but some crops are limited. You cannot plant fruits, most vegetables (except lentils, mung beans, and dry peas), wild rice, or crops that grow on trees or other perennials on peanut base acres unless the crop is destroyed before harvest. There are three exceptions. The Secretary can allow double-cropping where it has been done historically. A farm with a history of planting those crops may keep planting them, but direct payments and counter-cyclical payments will be reduced by one acre for each acre planted. Producers with an established planting history may plant up to their average annual planting in 1991–1995 or 1998–2001 (ignoring years with no plantings), but payments are reduced by one acre for each acre planted.