USC Subchapter I

7 U.S.C. § 7201 Short title and purpose

(a) Short titleThis chapter may be cited as the “Agricultural Market Transition Act”. (b) PurposeIt is the purpose of this chapter—(1) to authorize the use of binding production flexibility contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection requirements; (2) to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available for certain crops; (3) to improve the operation of farm programs for milk, peanuts, and sugar; and (4) to establish a commission to undertake a comprehensive review of past and future production agriculture in the United States.

7 U.S.C. § 7202 Definitions

In this chapter: (1) Agricultural Act of 1949Except in section 7301 of this title, the term “Agricultural Act of 1949” means the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.), as in effect prior to the suspensions under section 7301(b)(1) of this title. (2) Considered plantedThe term “considered planted” means acreage that is considered planted under title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1461 et seq.) and such other acreage as the Secretary considers fair and equitable. (3) ContractThe terms “contract” and “production flexibility contract” mean a production flexibility contract entered into under section 7211 of this title. (4) Contract acreageThe term “contract acreage” means 1 or more crop acreage bases established for contract commodities under title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1461 et seq.) that would have been in effect for the 1996 crop (but for suspension under section 7301(b)(1) of this title). (5) Contract commodityThe term “contract commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, and rice. (6) Contract paymentThe term “contract payment” means a payment made under this subchapter 11 So in original. Probably should be “chapter”. pursuant to a contract. (7) DepartmentThe term “Department” means the Department of Agriculture. (8) Extra long staple cottonThe term “extra long staple cotton” means cotton that—(A) is produced from pure strain varieties of the Barbadense species or any hybrid thereof, or other similar types of extra long staple cotton, designated by the Secretary, having characteristics needed for various end uses for which United States upland cotton is not suitable and grown in irrigated cotton-growing regions of the United States designated by the Secretary or other areas designated by the Secretary as suitable for the production of the varieties or types; and (B) is ginned on a roller-type gin or, if authorized by the Secretary, ginned on another type gin for experimental purposes. (9) Farm program payment yieldThe term “farm program payment yield” means the farm program payment yield established for the 1995 crop of a contract commodity under section 505 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1465). The Secretary shall adjust the farm program payment yield for the 1995 crop of a contract commodity to account for any additional yield payments made with respect to that crop under subsection (b)(2) of the section. (10) Loan commodityThe term “loan commodity” means each contract commodity, extra long staple cotton, and oilseed. (11) OilseedThe term “oilseed” means a crop of soybeans, sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, or, if designated by the Secretary, other oilseeds. (12) ProducerThe term “producer” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper who shares in the risk of producing a crop and who is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the farm, or would have shared had the crop been produced. In determining whether a grower of hybrid seed is a producer, the Secretary shall not take into consideration the existence of a hybrid seed contract. (13) SecretaryThe term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture. (14) StateThe term “State” means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other territory or possession of the United States. (15) United StatesThe term “United States”, when used in a geographical sense, means all of the States.