Optional Acreage Diversion Act of 1987

Summary

Optional Acreage Diversion Act of 1987 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that a 1988 wheat crop producer who devotes any amount in excess of 50 percent of permitted wheat acreage to conservation use shall receive deficiency payments at a bushel-rate established by the Secretary of Agriculture. (Current law provides for a 50 percent planting option.) States that such payment rate: (1) shall be not less than the projected deficiency payment rate; and (2) shall be made public prior to the program sign-up period. Requires the Secretary to issue implementing regulations within 30 days of enactment of this Act which shall include provisions ensuring that: (1) farm acreage bases and payment yields shall not be reduced if producers set aside such additional acreage; and (2) to the extent practicable such program shall not adversely affect landlord-tenant acreage base relationships.

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 7 August 1987

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 August 1987

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