7 U.S.C. § 8702 — Definitions

(1) “Average crop revenue election payment” means a payment to farm producers under section 8715.
(2)(A) “Base acres” means the acres established for a covered commodity under section 7911 as it was in effect on September 30, 2007, with any adjustment under section 8711. (B) “Base acres for peanuts” has the meaning given in section 8751.
(3) “Counter-cyclical payment” means a payment under section 8714.
(4) “Covered commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, long-grain rice, medium-grain rice, pulse crops, soybeans, and other oilseeds.
(5) “Direct payment” means a payment under section 8713.
(6) “Effective price” means the price the Secretary calculates under section 8714 to decide whether counter-cyclical payments are required for a crop year.
(7) “Extra long staple cotton” means cotton that (A) comes from pure Barbadense varieties, their hybrids, or other similar types designated by the Secretary; has the characteristics needed for uses for which U.S. upland cotton is unsuitable; and is grown in irrigated U.S. regions or other areas the Secretary designates as suitable; and (B) is ginned on a roller-type gin, or, if the Secretary authorizes it for an experiment, another type of gin.
(8) “Loan commodity” means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, long-grain rice, medium-grain rice, soybeans, other oilseeds, graded and nongraded wool, mohair, honey, dry peas, lentils, small chickpeas, and large chickpeas.
(9) “Medium-grain rice” includes short-grain rice.
(10) “Other oilseed” means sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, crambe, sesame seed, or an oilseed designated by the Secretary.
(11) “Payment acres” for direct and counter-cyclical payments means 85 percent of a farm’s covered-commodity base acres, except that direct payments for crop years 2009 through 2011 use 83.3 percent.
(12) “Payment yield” means the yield established for direct payments and for counter-cyclical payments under section 7912 as in effect on September 30, 2007, or under section 8712, for a farm and covered commodity.
(13)(A) “Producer” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper who shares the risk of producing a crop and is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing, or would have shared if the crop had been produced. (B) For hybrid-seed growers, the Secretary must ignore the existence of a hybrid-seed contract and must ensure program requirements do not harm the grower’s ability to receive a payment.
(14) “Pulse crop” means dry peas, lentils, small chickpeas, and large chickpeas.
(15) “State” means a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or another U.S. territory or possession.
(16) “Target price” means the price per bushel, pound, hundredweight, or other suitable unit used to set the counter-cyclical payment rate.
(17) “United States,” when geographic, means all the States.
(18) “United States Premium Factor” means the percentage by which the difference between U.S. loan-schedule premiums for Strict Middling 1⅛-inch upland cotton and Middling 1 3/32-inch upland cotton is greater than the difference between applicable premiums for comparable international qualities.