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[CITE: 7USC1306]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
  Part A--Definitions, Loans, Parity Payments, and Consumer Safeguards
 
Sec. 1306. Projected yields; determination; base period

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the determination of 
farm yields the Secretary may use projected yields in lieu of normal 
yields. In the determination of such yields the Secretary shall take 
into account the actual yield proved by the producer for the base period 
used in determining the projected yield, and the projected yield shall 
not be less than such actual yield proved by the producer.

(Pub. L. 89-321, title VII, Sec. 708, Nov. 3, 1965, 79 Stat. 1211; Pub. 
L. 91-524, title IV, Sec. 405(b), as added Pub. L. 93-86, Sec. 1(12), 
Aug. 10, 1973, 87 Stat. 229.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965, 
and not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which 
comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1973--Pub. L. 91-524, Sec. 405(b), as added by Pub. L. 93-86, 
temporarily inserted ``(except that in the case of wheat, if the yield 
is abnormally low in any one of the calendar years of the base period 
because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, the Secretary 
shall take into account the actual yield proved by the producer in the 
other four years of such base period)'' after ``determining the 
projected yield''. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1973 Amendment 
note below.


            Effective and Termination Dates of 1973 Amendment

    Section 405(b) of Pub. L. 91-524, as added by section 1(12) of Pub. 
L. 93-86, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective 
with respect to 1974 through 1977 crops.
