293 



(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law — 

 (1) The Secretary shall formulate and carry 

 out a special agricultural conservation program 

 for 1961. without regard to provisions which would 

 be applicable to the regular agricultural conserva- 

 tion program, under which, subject to such terms 

 and conditions as the Secretary determines, con- 

 servation payments in amounts determined by the 

 Secretary to be fair and reasonable shall be made 

 to producers who divert acreage from the produc- 

 tion of corn and grain sorghums to an approved 

 conservation use and increase their average acre- 

 age devoted in 1959 and 1960 to designated soil 

 conserving crops or practices by an equal amount: 

 Provided, however. That any producer may elect 

 In lieu of such payment to devote such diverted 

 acreage to castor beans, safflower. sunflower, or 

 sesame, if designated by the Secretary. Such 

 special agricultural conservation program shall 

 require the producer to take such measures as the 

 Secretary may deem appropriate to keep such 

 diverted acreage free from insects, weeds, and 

 rodents. The acreage eligible for payments in 

 cash or in an equivalent amount in kind under 

 such conservation program shall be an acreage 

 equivalent to 2D per centum of the average acre- 

 age on the farm planted to corn and grain sor- 

 ghums in the crop years 1959 and 1960 or up to 

 twenty acres, whichever is greater Such pay- 

 ments in cash or in kind at the basic county 

 support rate may be made on an amount of corn 

 and grain sorghums not in excess of 50 per centum 

 of the normal production of the acreage diverted 

 from corn and grain sorghums on the farm based 

 on its average yield per acre for the 1959 and 1960 

 crop acreage. Payments in kind only may be 

 made by the Secretary for the diversion of up to 

 an additional 20 per centum of such corn and 

 grain sorghum acreage. Payments in kind on 

 such additional acreage may be made at the 

 basic county support rate on an amount of corn 

 and grain sorghums not in excess of 60 per cen- 

 tum of the normal production of the acreage 

 diverted from corn and grain sorghums on the 

 farm based on its average yield per acre for the 

 1959 and 1960 crop acreage. The Secretary may 

 make such adjustments in acreage and yields for 

 the 1959 and 1960 crop years as he determines nec- 

 essary to correct for abnormal factors affecting 

 production, and to give due consideration to till- 

 able acreage, crop rotation practices, type of 

 soil, and topography. The Secretary may make 

 not to exceed 50 per centum of any payments to 

 producers in advance of determination of per- 

 formance. 



'2) There are authorized to be appropriated 

 such amounts as may be necessary to enable the 

 Secretary to carry out this subsection. Obliga- 

 tions may be incurred in advance of appropria- 

 tions therefor and the Commodity Credit Cor- 

 poration is authorized to advance from its capital 

 funds such sums as may be necessary to pay ad- 

 ministrative expenses in connection with such 

 program during the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1961, and to pay such costs as may be included in 

 carrying out section 3 of the Act which added 



this subsection to this Act. 



131 The Secretary shall provide by regulations 

 for the sharing of payments under this subsec- 

 tion among producers on the farm on a fair and 

 equitable basis and in keeping with existing con- 

 tracts, 

 (di Notwithstanding any other provision of law — 



(1) The Secretary shall formulate and carry 

 out a special agricultural conservation program 

 for 1962, without regard to provisions which 

 would be applicable to the regular agricultural 

 conservation program, under which, subject to 

 such terms and conditions as the Secretary de- 

 termines, conservation payments in amounts de- 

 termined by the Secretary to be fair and reason- 

 able shall be made to producers who divert 

 acreage from the production of corn and grain 

 sorghums, and barley, respectively, to an ap- 

 proved conservation use and increase their aver- 

 age acreage of cropland devoted in 1959 and 1960 

 to designated soil conservation crops or practices 

 including summer fallow and idle land by an equal 

 amount: Provided, That the Secretary may per- 

 mit such diverted acreage to be devoted to the 

 production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, 

 castor beans, other annual field crops for which 

 price support is not made available, and flax, 

 when such crops are not in surplus supply and 

 will not be in surplus supply if pennitted to be 

 grown on the diverted acreage, subject to the 

 condition that payment with respect to diverted 

 acreage devoted to any such crop shall be at a 

 rate determined by the Secretary to be fair and 

 reasonable, taking into consideration the use of 

 such acreage for the production of such crops, 

 but in no event shall the payment exceed one- 

 half the rate which would otherwise be applicable 

 if such acreage were devoted to conservation uses 

 and no price support shall be made available for 

 the production of any such crop on such diverted 

 acreage In order to be eligible for a payment a 

 producer (other than a producer of malting barley 

 as described in section lOStC i4> of the Agri- 

 cultural Act of 1949, or a producer of barley on a 

 summer-fallow farm as described in such section) 

 who participates in the special agricultural con- 

 servation program of 1962 for com and grain 

 sorghums must not knowingly devote an acreage 

 on the farm in excess of the average acreage de- 

 voted on the farm to barley in 1959 and 1960. and 

 a producer who participates in the special agri- 

 cultural conservation program for 1962 for barley 

 must not knowingly devote an acreage on the 

 farm to corn and grain sorghums in excess of the 

 average acreage devoted on the farm to corn and 

 grain sorghums in 1959 and 1960 The excess, if 

 any, of the acreage devoted to barley in 1962 on a 

 summer-fallow farm as described in section 

 105(c) (4) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 over the 

 average acreage devoted to barley on such farm in 

 1959 and 1960 shall be considered as planted to 

 corn and grain sorghums for the purpose of de- 

 termining extent of participation and payments 

 under the special agricultural conservation pro- 

 gram for 1962 for corn and grain sorghums. 



