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PUBLIC LAW 101-239—DEC. 19, 1989 103 STAT. 2107 "(1) Effective for the 1990 crops, the Secretary shall, subiect to paragraph (2), permit producers on a farm to plant soybeans, - sunflowers, or safflowers on a portion specified by the producer Oljut in any event not more than 25 percent) of the producers* • 1990 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, and rice permitted acreage, as determined by the Secretary. "(2)(A) The Secretary shall establish a sign-up period during which the producers on a farm, participating in the 1990 crop wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, or rice price support and production adjustment program, must state their intentions regarding use of the increased planting provision under paragraph (1). "(B) After termination of the sign-up period under subpara- graph (A), the Secretary shall estimate whether, based on the anticipated additional soybean, sunflower, and safflower plant- ings for the crop, the average market price for the 1990 crop of soybeans will be below 110 percent of the loan rate established for the 1989 crop of soybeans. "(C) If the Secretary estimates that the average market price for the 1990 crop of soybeans will be below 110 percent of such loan rate, the Secretary shall reduce the percentage of per- mitted acreage on the rarm that may be planted to soybeans, sunflowers, and safflowers to a level, or prohibit such plantings, ,,^ ,- as necessary to ensure that the average soybean market price does not fall below 110 percent of such loan rate. "(D) The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agri- culture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a statement ^ setting forth the reasons for any reduction in the permitted planting percentage, or prohibition on such plantings, under this paragraph. "(3)(A) For the purposes of determining the farm acreage base or the crop acreage bases for the farm, any acreage on the farm on which soybeans, simffowers, or safflowers are planted under this subsection shall be considered to be planted to the program crop for which soybeans, sunflowers, or safflowers are sul^tituted. "(B) The Secretary may not make program benefits other than soybean or sunflower seed price support loans and pur- chases available to producers with respect to acreage planted to soybeans, sunflowers, or safflowers under this subsection and shall ensure that the crop acreage bases established for the farm and the farm acreage base are not increased due to such plantings.", (b) FEED GRAIN ACREAGE LIMITATION PROGRAM.— Effective only for the 1990 crop of feed grains, section 105C(fKlXC) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1444e(f)(l)(C)) is amended— (1) by striking "(C)", "1990", "(i)", and "(u)" and inserting "(C)(i)", "1989", ^'(D", and "(H)", respectively; and (2) by adding at the end the following new clause: "(ii) In the case of the 1990 crop of feed grains, if the Secretary estimates, not later than September 30, 1989, tiiat the quantity of com on hand in the United States on the flrst day of the marketing year for that crop (not including any quantity of com of that crop) ivill be "(1) more than 2,000,000,000 bushels, the Secretary shall pro- vide for an acreage limitation program (as described in para-