Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish land diversion payment programs for the 1980 crops of corn and wheat.
Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that grain producers devote to approved conservation uses, an amount of cropland not less than a percentage of their 1980 crop planted acreage (15 percent for corn and 10 percent for wheat).
Sets forth formulas for determining the amount of such payments. Sets $1.50 per bushel for both corn and wheat as a payment rate factor in such formulas.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
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