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say a person has a nursery of say 1,000 acres and they are in the 

 ground, not in containers. How does that person file a claim, and 

 how do you figure the claim? 



Ms. Sharp. The county committee establishes a yield per acre for 

 crops that are planted in the ground. Then the producer would 

 bring in his production for the year, and we would compare his ac- 

 tual production to the expected production determined by the coun- 

 ty committee, and that would determine his loss. 



If that loss was in excess of 40 percent, then he would be eligible 

 for disaster payment. The eligible loss is that loss that exceeds 40 

 percent. On 1,000 acres if the county committee determined that he 

 could yield 450 plants an acre, they would set $50,000 as his ex- 

 pected yield, and then he would tell us what he produced in the 

 year. 



If that difference between what he actually produced and his ex- 

 pected yield exceeded 40 percent, he would be eligible. That is very 

 similar to row crops and the grain crops. 



Mr. Lewis. Thank you, very much. 



Madam Chairman, I hate to do this again, but I would like unan- 

 imous consent to submit some questions for the record to USDA 

 from Congressman Combest of Texas and a question from one of 

 his constituents. 



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