To improve the processes for establishing farm and crop acreage bases and establishing the actual yield for each farm for each program crop, to permit producers to plant non-program crops on crop base acres, and to accomplish these objectives in an efficient, equitable, flexible and predictable manner.
Acreage Base and Program Yield Flexibility Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to the 1991 through 1995 acreage base and program yield of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice to: (1) provide for upward crop base adjustments (to be offset by equivalent downward adjustments of other crop acreage bases); (2) permit producers to designate acreage as acreage for program crops in short supply; and (3) permit producers to grow canola or safflowers (in addition to soybeans or sunflowers) on program crop acreage.
Bases farm payment yields on actual yields beginning with the 1991 crop year.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
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