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[CITE: 7USC7202]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
               CHAPTER 100--AGRICULTURAL MARKET TRANSITION
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--SHORT TITLE, PURPOSE, AND DEFINITIONS
 
Sec. 7202. Definitions

    In this chapter:

                    (1) Agricultural Act of 1949

        Except in section 7301 of this title, the term ``Agricultural 
    Act of 1949'' means the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et 
    seq.), as in effect prior to the suspensions under section 
    7301(b)(1) of this title.

                       (2) Considered planted

        The term ``considered planted'' means acreage that is considered 
    planted under title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1461 
    et seq.) and such other acreage as the Secretary considers fair and 
    equitable.

                            (3) Contract

        The terms ``contract'' and ``production flexibility contract'' 
    mean a production flexibility contract entered into under section 
    7211 of this title.

                        (4) Contract acreage

        The term ``contract acreage'' means 1 or more crop acreage bases 
    established for contract commodities under title V of the 
    Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1461 et seq.) that would have 
    been in effect for the 1996 crop (but for suspension under section 
    7301(b)(1) of this title).

                       (5) Contract commodity

        The term ``contract commodity'' means wheat, corn, grain 
    sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, and rice.

                        (6) Contract payment

        The term ``contract payment'' means a payment made under this 
    subchapter \1\ pursuant to a contract.
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                           (7) Department

        The term ``Department'' means the Department of Agriculture.

                    (8) Extra long staple cotton

        The term ``extra long staple cotton'' means cotton that--
            (A) is produced from pure strain varieties of the Barbadense 
        species or any hybrid thereof, or other similar types of extra 
        long staple cotton, designated by the Secretary, having 
        characteristics needed for various end uses for which United 
        States upland cotton is not suitable and grown in irrigated 
        cotton-growing regions of the United States designated by the 
        Secretary or other areas designated by the Secretary as suitable 
        for the production of the varieties or types; and
            (B) is ginned on a roller-type gin or, if authorized by the 
        Secretary, ginned on another type gin for experimental purposes.

                   (9) Farm program payment yield

        The term ``farm program payment yield'' means the farm program 
    payment yield established for the 1995 crop of a contract commodity 
    under section 505 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1465). 
    The Secretary shall adjust the farm program payment yield for the 
    1995 crop of a contract commodity to account for any additional 
    yield payments made with respect to that crop under subsection 
    (b)(2) of the section.

                         (10) Loan commodity

        The term ``loan commodity'' means each contract commodity, extra 
    long staple cotton, and oilseed.

                            (11) Oilseed

        The term ``oilseed'' means a crop of soybeans, sunflower seed, 
    rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, or, if 
    designated by the Secretary, other oilseeds.

                            (12) Producer

        The term ``producer'' means an owner, operator, landlord, 
    tenant, or sharecropper who shares in the risk of producing a crop 
    and who is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing 
    from the farm, or would have shared had the crop been produced. In 
    determining whether a grower of hybrid seed is a producer, the 
    Secretary shall not take into consideration the existence of a 
    hybrid seed contract.

                           (13) Secretary

        The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture.

                             (14) State

        The term ``State'' means each of the several States of the 
    United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
    Rico, and any other territory or possession of the United States.

                         (15) United States

        The term ``United States'', when used in a geographical sense, 
    means all of the States.

(Pub. L. 104-127, title I, Sec. 102, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 897.)

                       References in Text

    For definition of ``this chapter'', referred to in text, see note 
set out under section 7201 of this title.
    The Agricultural Act of 1949, referred to in pars. (1), (2), and 
(4), is act Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, 63 Stat. 1051, as amended, which is 
classified principally to chapter 35A (Sec. 1421 et seq.) of this title. 
Title V of the Act, which was classified generally to subchapter IV 
(Sec. 1461 et seq.) of chapter 35A of this title, was omitted from the 
Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.
    Section 505 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1465), 
referred to in par. (9), was omitted from the Code.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1308 of this title.
