§ 7218. — Planting flexibility.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC7218]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 100--AGRICULTURAL MARKET TRANSITION
SUBCHAPTER II--PRODUCTION FLEXIBILITY CONTRACTS
Sec. 7218. Planting flexibility
(a) Permitted crops
Subject to subsection (b) of this section, any commodity or crop may
be planted on contract acreage on a farm.
(b) Limitations and exceptions regarding fruits and vegetables
(1) Limitations
The planting of fruits and vegetables (other than lentils, mung
beans, and dry peas) shall be prohibited on contract acreage.
(2) Exceptions
Paragraph (1) shall not limit the planting of a fruit or
vegetable--
(A) in any region in which there is a history of double-
cropping of contract commodities with fruits or vegetables, as
determined by the Secretary, in which case the double-cropping
shall be permitted;
(B) on a farm that the Secretary determines has a history of
planting fruits or vegetables on contract acreage, except that a
contract payment shall be reduced by an acre for each acre
planted to the fruit or vegetable; or
(C) by a producer who the Secretary determines has an
established planting history of a specific fruit or vegetable,
except that--
(i) the quantity planted may not exceed the producer's
average annual planting history of the fruit or vegetable in
the 1991 through 1995 crop years (excluding any crop year in
which no plantings were made), as determined by the
Secretary; and
(ii) a contract payment shall be reduced by an acre for
each acre planted to the fruit or vegetable.
(Pub. L. 104-127, title I, Sec. 118, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 904.)
Contract Payments for Wild Rice Acreage
Pub. L. 106-78, title VII, Sec. 727, Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1164,
provided that: ``None of the funds appropriated or otherwise available
to the Department of Agriculture in fiscal year 2000 or thereafter may
be used to administer the provision of contract payments to a producer
under the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) for
contract acreage on which wild rice is planted unless the contract
payment is reduced by an acre for each contract acre planted to wild
rice.''
Similar provisions were contained in the following prior
appropriations acts:
Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(a) [title VII, Sec. 727], Oct. 21,
1998, 112 Stat. 2681, 2681-28.
Pub. L. 105-86, title VII, Sec. 734, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 2110.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 7211 of this title.
