GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



C. National acreage allotment 



1. When proclauiied. — If a national marketing quota is proclaimed the Secretarj- 

 is required to proclaim a national acreage allotment for rice. Such allotment may 

 also be proclaimed even though the supply situation is such as not to require the 

 proclamation of a national marketing quota. In either event, the national acreage 

 allotment for any calendar year must be proclaimed not later than December 31 

 of the preceding calendar year (sec. 352). 



2. Amount. — The national acreage allotment for any calendar year is required 

 to be that acreage which will, on the basis of the national average yield of rice for 

 the five calendar years preceding the calendar year for which such national allot- 

 ment is determined, produce an amount of rice adequate, together with the esti- 

 mated carry-over from the marketing year ending in such calendar year, to make 

 available a supply for the marketing year beginning in such calendar year not less 

 than the normal supply (sec. 352). 



3. Apportionment to States and producers. — The Secretary is required to appor- 

 tion (a) the national acreage allotment among the rice-producing States on the basis 

 of the average number of acres of rice in each State during the 5 years preceding 

 the calendar year for which such national allotment is determined, with adjust- 

 ments for trends in acreage during such 5 years, (5) not less than 97 percent of 

 the State acreage allotmenc among persons producing rice in the State on the basis 

 of past production; land, labor, and equipment available for the production of rice; 

 crop-rotation practices, soil fertility, and other physical factors affecting the pro- 

 duction of rice, and (c) not more than 3 percent of the State acreage allotment 

 among persons who have not produced rice during any one of the five preceding 

 years, on the basis of the applicable standards in {h) above, except that no "new" 

 producer allotment may exceed 75 percent of a comparable "old" producer allot- 

 ment (sec. 353). 



D. Producer marketing quotas 



1. Amount. — The act does not state specifically the amount of the quota but 

 merely provides that it will be the producer's share of the State marketing quota 

 based on the normal vield of the acreage allotment established for such producer 

 (sees. 355 (c) and 354 (c)). 



2. Marketing quota penalty. — Any producer who markets rice in excess of his 

 marketing quota shall be subject to a penalty at a rate equal to 50 percent of the 

 basic loan rate applicable to cooperators ^- for the marketing year beginning in the 

 year in which such rice is produced (sec. 356, as amended by Public Law 74, 77th 

 Cong.). 



Vir. PEANUTS 



A. Natinmd marketing Quota 



1. When proclaimed. — Between July 1 and December 1 of each calendar year, 

 the Secretary is required to proclaim a national marketing quota for peanuts.^' 

 The proclamation of sucli quota is not dependent upon the existence of any given 

 supplv of peanuts (sec. 358 (a)). 



2. Amount. — The amount of the national marketing quota is that quantity of 

 peanuts which will make available for marketing a supply from the crop with 

 respect to which the quota is proclaimed equal to the average quantity of peanuts 

 harvested for nuts during the 5 years preceding the year in which such quota is 

 proclaimed, adjusted for current trends and prospective demand conditions. 

 Such national marketing quota, however, may not be less than the quantity of 

 peanuts sufficient to provide a national acreage allotment equal to the n.ationai 

 acreage allotment established for the 1941 crop (sec. 358 (a)). 



3. Converted to national acreage allotment. — The national marketing quota is 

 is required to be converted to a national acreage allotment by dividing such quota 

 by the normal yield per acre of peanuts for the United States determined on the 

 basis of the average yield per acre in the five calendar years preceding the calendar 

 vear in which the quota is proclaimed, with such adjustments as are necessary to 

 correct for trends in yields and for abnormal conditions of production affecting 

 vields in such 5 years. In no event may the national acreage allotment be less 

 ithan the national acreage allotment established for the 1941 crop (sec. 358 (a)). 



4. Referendum. — Not later than December 15 each year, the Secretary is 

 required to conduct a referendum to determine whether farmers who produced pea- 

 nuts that ^ear favor or oppose marketing quotas with respect to the next three 

 crops of peanuts. The Secretary is required to proclaim the results of the refer- 



22 Sec footnote 9. 



^•i The act applies to all peauuis produced, excluding any peanuts which it is established by the producer 

 or otherwise, in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, were not picked or threshed either before or 

 after marketins from the farm (sec. 259 (c)). 



