7 U.S.C. § 7214
For each contract, the payment quantity of a contract commodity for each fiscal year shall be equal to the product of-
The payment quantity of each contract commodity covered by all contracts for each fiscal year shall be equal to the sum of the amounts calculated under subsection (a) for each individual contract.
The payment rate for a contract commodity for each fiscal year shall be equal to-
The amount to be paid under a contract in effect for each fiscal year with respect to all contract commodities covered by the contract shall be equal to the sum of the products of-
The contract payment determined under subsection (d) for an owner or producer for a fiscal year shall be immediately reduced by the amount of any repayment of deficiency payments that is required under section 114(a)(2) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1445j(a)(2)) and is not repaid as of the date the contract payment is determined. The Secretary shall be required to collect the required repayment, or any claim based on the required repayment, as soon as the contract payment is determined.
The provisions of section 590h(g) of title 16 (relating to assignment of payments) shall apply to contract payments under this section. The owner or producer making the assignment, or the assignee, shall provide the Secretary with notice, in such manner as the Secretary may require in the contract, of any assignment made under this subsection.
The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of contract payments among the owners and producers subject to the contract on a fair and equitable basis.
7 U.S.C. § 7214
- Secretary
- The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- contract acreage
- The 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).
- contract commodity
- The term "contract commodity" means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, and rice.
- contract payment
- The term "contract payment" means a payment made under this subchapter1 pursuant to a contract.
- farm program payment yield
- The 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.
- producer
- The 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.
- contract
- The terms "contract" and "production flexibility contract" mean a production flexibility contract entered into under section 7211 of this title.