7 U.S.C. § 7901 — Definitions
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 107-171 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 675 words · no verdicts yet
This section defines terms used in this chapter, including covered commodities, payment measures, producers, States, and the United States.
In this chapter, except subchapter III: (1) “Agricultural Act of 1949” means that Act as it existed before the suspensions under section 7301. (2) “Base acres” means the acres established under section 7911 for a covered commodity based on the farm owner’s election. (3) “Counter-cyclical payment” means a payment under section 7914. (4) “Covered commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and other oilseeds. (5) “Direct payment” means a payment under section 7913. (6) “Effective price” is the Secretary’s crop-year price calculation under section 7914 used to decide whether counter-cyclical payments are due. (7) “Extra long staple cotton” is cotton produced from pure Barbadense varieties, hybrids, or similar Secretary-designated types with needed end-use characteristics, grown in designated suitable areas, and ginned on a roller gin or, if authorized, another gin for experiments. (8) “Loan commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland and extra-long-staple cotton, rice, soybeans, other oilseeds, wool, mohair, honey, dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas. (9) “Other oilseed” means sunflower, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard, crambe, or sesame seed, or another Secretary-designated oilseed. (10) “Payment acres” means 85 percent of a farm’s covered-commodity base acres on which direct and counter-cyclical payments are made. (11)(A) “Payment yield” means the yield established under section 7912. (B) “Updated payment yield” means the yield the farm owner elects under section 7912(e) for calculating counter-cyclical payments. (12) “Producer” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper sharing crop-production risk and entitled to a share of the crop marketed, or who would have shared if it were produced. For hybrid-seed growers, the Secretary must disregard a hybrid-seed contract in deciding producer status and ensure program rules do not hurt the grower’s ability to receive a payment. (13) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture. (14) “State” means each State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories or possessions. (15) “Target price” means the per-bushel, or other appropriate-unit, price for a covered commodity used to set the counter-cyclical payment rate. (16) “United States,” geographically, means all States.
In this chapter (other than subchapter III):
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 of this title.
The term “base acres”, with respect to a covered commodity on a farm, means the number of acres established under section 7911 of this title with respect to the covered commodity on the election made by the owner of the farm under subsection (a) of such section.
The term “counter-cyclical payment” means a payment made to producers on a farm under section 7914 of this title.
The term “covered commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and other oilseeds.
The term “direct payment” means a payment made to producers on a farm under section 7913 of this title.
The term “effective price”, with respect to a covered commodity for a crop year, means the price calculated by the Secretary under section 7914 of this title to determine whether counter-cyclical payments are required to be made for that crop year.
The term “extra long staple cotton” means cotton that—
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
is ginned on a roller-type gin or, if authorized by the Secretary, ginned on another type gin for experimental purposes.
The term “loan commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, rice, soybeans, other oilseeds, wool, mohair, honey, dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas.
The term “other oilseed” means a crop of sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, crambe, sesame seed, or, if designated by the Secretary, another oilseed.
The term “payment acres” means 85 percent of the base acres of a covered commodity on a farm, as established under section 7911 of this title, on which direct payments and counter-cyclical payments are made.
The term “payment yield” means the yield established under section 7912 of this title for a farm for a covered commodity.
The term “updated payment yield” means the payment yield elected by the owner of a farm under section 7912(e) of this title to be used in calculating the counter-cyclical payments for the farm.
The term “producer” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing a crop and 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 and shall ensure that program requirements do not adversely affect the ability of the grower to receive a payment under this chapter.
The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
The 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.
The term “target price” means the price per bushel (or other appropriate unit in the case of upland cotton, rice, and other oilseeds) of a covered commodity used to determine the payment rate for counter-cyclical payments.
The term “United States”, when used in a geographical sense, means all of the States.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1001, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 143; Pub. L. 108–7, div. A, title VII, § 763(a), Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 46.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-171 · 116 Stat. 143
- 2003Amended · Pub. L. 108-7 · 117 Stat. 46
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