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poration for the purpose of making disbursements to 

 producers under programs formulated pursuant to 

 section 590h of this title and subsection (e) of this 

 section: Provided. That no such disbursements shall 

 be made by Commodity Credit Corporation unless it 

 has received funds to cover the amount thereof from 

 appropriations available for the purpose of carrying 

 out such programs. 



(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law- 

 CD The Secretary shall formulate and carry 

 out a special agricultural conservation program for 

 1963. 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 determines, conser- 

 vation 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, grain sorghums, and barley to an ap- 

 proved conservation use and increase their average 

 acreage of cropland devoted in 1959 and 1960 to 

 designated soil -conserving crops or practices in- 

 cluding summer fallow and idle land by an equal 

 amount: Provided, That the Secretary may permit 

 such diverted acreage to be devoted to the produc- 

 tion of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, castor 

 beans, and flax, when such crops are not in sur- 

 plus supply and will not be in surplus supply if 

 permitted 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 ap- 

 plicable if such acreage were devoted to conser- 

 vation uses and no price support shall be made 

 available for the production of any such crop on 

 such diverted acreage. 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 erosion, insects, weeds, and rodents. The 

 acreage eligible for payments in cash or in an 

 equivalent amount in kind under such conserva- 

 tion program shall be an acreage equivalent to 20 

 per centum of the average acreage on the farm 

 planted to corn, grain sorghums, and barley in the 

 crop years 1959 and 1960 or up to twenty-five 

 acres, whichever is greater. Payments in kind 

 only may be made by the Secretary for the diver- 

 sion of up to an additional 30 per centum of the 

 average acreage on the farm planted to corn, 

 grain sorghums, and barley, in the crop years 1959 

 and 1960 Payments may be made at the basic 

 county support rate for the 1962 crop in effect at 

 the time payment rates for the special feed grain 

 program for 1963 are established, adjusted to re- 

 flect any changes between the national support 

 rates for the 1962 and 1963 crops on an amount 

 of the commodity not in excess of 50 per centum 

 of the normal production of the acreage diverted 

 from the commodity on the farm based on its 



adjusted 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 neces- 

 sary to correct for abnormal factors affecting 

 production, and to give due consideration to till- 

 able acreage, crop rotation practices, type of soil, 

 soil and water conservation measures, and topog- 

 raphy. The Secretary may also make such ad- 

 justments in yields as he determines necessary 

 to reflect any increases in yields since the 1959 

 and 1960 crop years as the result of the adoption 

 or the improvement of an irrigation system if 

 such improvement or adoption of such irrigation 

 system was made prior to the effective date of 

 this sentence but such adjustment in yields shall 

 apply only to payments with respect to acreage 

 diverted pursuant to the requirements of section 

 105(c)(6) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as 

 amended. To the extent that a producer proves 

 the actual acreages and yields for the farm for 

 the 1959 and 1960 crop years, such acreages and 

 yields shall be used in making determinations. 

 The Secretary may make not to exceed 50 per 

 centum of any payments to producers in advance 

 of determination of performance. Notwithstand- 

 ing any other provision of this subsection (g) (1), 

 barley shall not be included in the program for 

 a producer of malting barley exempted pursuant 

 to section 105 ( c ) ( 6 ) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 

 who participates only with respect to corn and 

 grain sorghums and does not knowingly devote 

 an acreage on the farm to barley in excess of 110 

 per centum of the average acreage devoted on the 

 farm to barley in 1959 and 1960. 



(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 Corpora- 

 tion 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, 

 1963, and to pay such costs as may be incurred 

 in carrying out section 303 of the Pood and 

 Agriculture Act of 1962. 



(3) The Secretary shall provide by regulations 

 for the sharing of payments under this. subsection 

 among producers on the farm on a fair and equi- 

 table basis and in keeping with existing contracts, 

 (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law— 



(1) For the 1964 crop and the 1965 crop of feed 

 grains, if the Secretary determines that the total 

 supply of feed grains will, in the absence of an 

 acreage diversion program, likely be excessive, 

 taking into account the need for an adequate 

 carryover to maintain reasonable and stable sup- 

 plies and prices of feed grains and to meet any 

 national emergency, he may formulate and carry 

 out an acreage diversion program for feed grains, 

 without regard to provisions which would be ap- 

 plicable to the regular agricultural conservation 

 program, under which, subject to such terms and 

 conditions as the Secretary determines, conser- 



