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mary market. And if the producer or, as a result of qualities, the 

 producer cannot sell into the primary market and has to sell into 

 a secondary market, then we zero out the production bases, the pri- 

 mary market, and then adjust the disaster payments based on the 

 value received for the secondary market, which is somewhat simi- 

 lar to what we are doing on grains. 



Mr. Barrett. Thank you for that clarification. 



I thank the gentleman for yielding. 



Mr. NussLE. Yes. 



Mr. Weber, I just wanted to follow up on a couple of things. 



First of all, last year it is my understanding that — or after last 

 year — the policy was discontinued with regard to rolled, cracked, 

 crimped recourse loan program for com. And I am wondering if 

 that is being considered for reinstating this year? 



Mr. Weber. We have a decision document that is in the Sec- 

 retary's office right now on that issue. 



Mr. NusSLE. Am I going to like the answer to that? 



Mr. Weber. I don't know at this point. 



Mr. NusSLE. I am going to give my questions to Mr. Volkmer. I 

 like his method of doing things. So if I said the answer was yes, 

 how does that sound? 



Mr. Weber. I would not want to agree with that at this point 

 anyway. 



Mr. NusSLE. All right. We will follow up with that. 



My second question was in the area of the CRP and whether or 

 not the September 30 deadline could be extended possibly a month. 



Mr. Weber. That question came up earlier this morning from an- 

 other source as well, and we are looking into that right now. 



Mr. NusSLE. I hope you give that favorable consideration be- 

 cause, again, many of the farmers that I have talked to have not 

 been able to utilize this first extension because of the wet weather. 



Mr. Weber. OK. 



Mr. Nussle. And then, finally, there has been a lot of questions 

 about quality losses. I want to make sure I have my facts straight. 



Is there a place I can look to determine what the standards are 

 for quality losses for all of these different — whether we are talking 

 about edible beans or we are talking about corn? 



I mean, where do we go to find the standards to determine 

 whether or not — and the reason I am asking this is because we are 

 getting a lot of farmer questions. 



They are saying. How do I know? What do I do? What am I look- 

 ing for? And I want to be able to tell them or give them something 

 that can show, this is how we can, through step by step, determine 

 that. 



Mr. Weber. I think after today, after we send the amendment 

 out that is making the adjustments on the grains, that it is in 

 our — what we call our One PAD handbook that will show what ad- 

 justments are appropriate for the grains as well as the nonprogram 

 crops. Those are at the county office. 



Mr. Nussle. That goes to the county office? 



Mr. Weber. Yes. 



Mr. Nussle. Is it possible to get a copy of that? 



Mr. Weber. We will excerpt the pages and make certain you get 

 a copy. 



