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[CITE: 7USC7218]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
               CHAPTER 100--AGRICULTURAL MARKET TRANSITION
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--PRODUCTION FLEXIBILITY CONTRACTS
 
Sec. 7218. Planting flexibility


(a) Permitted crops

    Subject to subsection (b) of this section, any commodity or crop may 
be planted on contract acreage on a farm.

(b) Limitations and exceptions regarding fruits and vegetables

                           (1) Limitations

        The planting of fruits and vegetables (other than lentils, mung 
    beans, and dry peas) shall be prohibited on contract acreage.

                           (2) Exceptions

        Paragraph (1) shall not limit the planting of a fruit or 
    vegetable--
            (A) in any region in which there is a history of double-
        cropping of contract commodities with fruits or vegetables, as 
        determined by the Secretary, in which case the double-cropping 
        shall be permitted;
            (B) on a farm that the Secretary determines has a history of 
        planting fruits or vegetables on contract acreage, except that a 
        contract payment shall be reduced by an acre for each acre 
        planted to the fruit or vegetable; or
            (C) by a producer who the Secretary determines has an 
        established planting history of a specific fruit or vegetable, 
        except that--
                (i) the quantity planted may not exceed the producer's 
            average annual planting history of the fruit or vegetable in 
            the 1991 through 1995 crop years (excluding any crop year in 
            which no plantings were made), as determined by the 
            Secretary; and
                (ii) a contract payment shall be reduced by an acre for 
            each acre planted to the fruit or vegetable.

(Pub. L. 104-127, title I, Sec. 118, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 904.)


                 Contract Payments for Wild Rice Acreage

    Pub. L. 106-78, title VII, Sec. 727, Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1164, 
provided that: ``None of the funds appropriated or otherwise available 
to the Department of Agriculture in fiscal year 2000 or thereafter may 
be used to administer the provision of contract payments to a producer 
under the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) for 
contract acreage on which wild rice is planted unless the contract 
payment is reduced by an acre for each contract acre planted to wild 
rice.''
    Similar provisions were contained in the following prior 
appropriations acts:
    Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(a) [title VII, Sec. 727], Oct. 21, 
1998, 112 Stat. 2681, 2681-28.
    Pub. L. 105-86, title VII, Sec. 734, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 2110.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7211 of this title.
