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 (DCP) under the
2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Sec. 1101-1108). A farmer’s
crop acreage base 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 produ ...
(CRP), but increased by CRP base acreage leaving the CRP. Farmers have the choice of base acreage used to calculate
Production Flexibility Contract payments for crop year 2002, or the average of acres planted for crop years 1998 through 2001.
See also
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Farm acreage base
References
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American legal terminology
Agriculture in the United States