7 USC 9013 - Payment yields

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 9013.

Payment yields

(a)

Establishment and purpose

(b)

Payment yields for designated oilseeds

(1)

Determination of average yield

(2)

Adjustment for payment yield

(A)

In general

The payment yield for a farm for an oilseed designated before December 20, 2018, shall be equal to the product of the following:

(i)

The average yield for the designated oilseed determined under paragraph (1).

(ii)

The ratio resulting from dividing the national average yield for the designated oilseed for the 1981 through 1985 crops by the national average yield for the designated oilseed for the 1998 through 2001 crops.

(B)

No national average yield information available

(3)

Use of county average yield

(4)

Treatment of oilseeds designated after certain date

(c)

Effect of lack of payment yield

(1)

Establishment by Secretary

(2)

Use of similarly situated farms

(d)

Single opportunity to update yields

(1)

Election to update

(2)

Method of updating yields for covered commodities

If the owner of a farm elects to update yields under paragraph (1), the payment yield for a covered commodity on the farm, for the purpose of calculating price loss coverage payments only, shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying—

(A)

90 percent;

(B)

the average of the yield per planted acre for the crop of covered commodities on the farm for the 2013 through 2017 crop years, as determined by the Secretary, excluding any crop year in which the acreage planted to the covered commodity was zero; and

(C)

subject to paragraph (3), the ratio obtained by dividing—

(i)

the average of the 2008 through 2012 national average yield per planted acre for the covered commodity, as determined by the Secretary; by

(ii)

the average of the 2013 through 2017 national average yield per planted acre for the covered commodity, as determined by the Secretary.

(3)

Limitation

(4)

Use of county average yield

(5)

Upland cotton conversion

(6)

Time for election

(e)

Payment yield for seed cotton

(1)

Payment yield

(2)

Update

(Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1113, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 664; Pub. L. 115–123, div. F, § 60101(a)(4), Feb. 9, 2018, 132 Stat. 308; Pub. L. 115–334, title I, § 1103, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4501.)

cite as: 7 USC 9013