In United States agricultural law, a farm’s base acreage is its crop-specific acreage of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, soybeans, canola, flax, mustard, rapeseed, safflower, sunflowers, and rice eligible to enroll in the

Direct and Counter-cyclical Program The Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program (DCP) of the USDA provides payments to eligible producers on farms enrolled for the 2002 through 2007 crop years. There are two types of DCP payments – direct payments and counter-cyclical payments. ...

(DCP) under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Sec. 1101-1108). A farmer’s

crop acreage base Crop acreage base is a crop-specific measure equal to the average number of acres planted (or considered planted) to a particular program crop for a specified number of years. The crop-specific nature of this measurement was important prior to the 1 ...

is reduced by the portion of cropland placed in the

Conservation Reserve Program The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of produc ...

(CRP), but increased by CRP base acreage leaving the CRP. Farmers have the choice of base acreage used to calculate

Production Flexibility Contract In the United States, a production flexibility contract is a 7-year contract covering crop years 1996-2002, authorized by the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104-127) between the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and farmers, which makes fixed income support ...

payments for crop year 2002, or the average of acres planted for crop years 1998 through 2001.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Base Acreage American legal terminology Agriculture in the United States

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