A bill to authorize deficiency payments for certain farmers who were unable to produce in 1977 acreage allotment commodities because of insufficient moisture.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to pay a specified amount to producers on a farm who, because of insufficient subsoil moisture to produce a commodity for which the farm has an acreage allotment, plant for harvest in 1977 another commodity in lieu of the acreage allotment commodity.