A bill to authorize, under certain circumstances, payments to producers of certain agricultural commodities who are unable to plant all or a portion of their allotment for such commodities or who are unable to harvest more than one-third of their allotments for such commodities, because of a natural disaster or condition beyond the control of such producers.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to pay an amount determined by a certain formula to any producer who is prevented in the 1978 or any subsequent crop year from planting any portion of the farm acreage allotted to a specified commodity (wheat, feed grains, cotton or soybeans), or who can harvest in such year no more than two-thirds of the farm acreage allotment for a specified commodity, because of drought, flood or other natural disaster or condition beyond the control of the producer.