Collapse to view only § 7202. Definitions
§ 7201. Short title and purpose
(a) Short title
(b) Purpose
It 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.
(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 101, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 896.)
§ 7202. Definitions
In this chapter:
(1) Agricultural Act of 1949
(2) Considered planted
(3) Contract
(4) Contract acreage
(5) Contract commodity
(6) Contract payment
(7) Department
(8) Extra long staple cotton
The 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 yield
(10) Loan commodity
(11) Oilseed
(12) Producer
(13) Secretary
(14) State
(15) United States
(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 102, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 897.)