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[76 Stat. 612]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1962
[76 Stat. 612]

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PUBLIC LAW 87-703-SEPT. 27, 1962

[76 STAT.

TITLE III—COMMODITY PROGRAMS SUBTITLE A — F E E D GRAINS

75 Stat. 6,

SEC. 301. Section 105(e) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by adding the following new paragraphs (5) and

301. 7 USC 1441

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"(5) The level of price support for the 1963 crop of corn shall be established by the Secretary at such level not less than 65 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary may determine. Eighteen cents per bushel of the support price for corn, and a comparable portion of the support price for grain sorghums and barley shall be made available to producers through payments in kind. Such payments in kind shall be made on the number of bushels of such feed grain determined by multiplying the actual acreage of such feed grain planted on the farm for harvest in 1963 by the adjusted average yield per acre for the 1959 and 1960 crop E^creage of such feed grain. Such payments in kind shall be made through the issuance of negotiable certificates which the Commodity Credit Corporation shall redeem for corn, grain sorghums, and barley (such feed grains to be valued by the Secretary at not less than the support price minus that part of the support price made available through payments in kind) and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, assist the producer in the marketing oi such certificates. In the case of any certificate not presented for redemption within 30 days of the date of its issuance, reasonable costs of storage and other carrying charges, as determined by the Secretary, for the period beginning 30 days after its issuance and ending with the date of its presentation for redemption shall be deducted from the value of the certificate. The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of such certificates among the producers on the farm on the basis of their respective shares in the crop produced on the farm with respect to which such certificates are issued, or the proceeds therefrom. If the operator of the farm elects to participate m the special agricultural conservation program for 1963 for corn, grain sorghums, and barley, price support shall be made available to the producers on such farm o n l j if such producers divert from the production of such feed grains m accordance with the provisions of such program an acreage on the farm equal to the number of acres which such operator agrees to divert, and the agreement shall so provide. "(6) The Secretary shall require as a condition of eligibility for price support on the 1963 crop of corn, grain sorghums, and barley that the producer shall participate in the special agricultural conservation program for 1963 for corn, grain sorghums, and barley to the extent prescribed by the Secretary: Provided, That the Secretary may provide that no producer of malting barley shall be required as a condition of eligibility for price support for barley to participate in the special agricultural conservation program for 1963 if such producer has previously produced a malting variety of barley, plants barley only of an acceptable malting variety for harvest in 1963, does not knowingly devote an acreage on the farm to barley in excess of 110 per centum of the average acreage devoted on the farm to barley in 1959 and 1960, and does not knowingly devote an acreage on the farm to corn and grain sorghums in excess of the average acreage devoted on the farm to corn and grain sorghums in 1959 and 1960." SEC. 302. Section 16 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, is amended by adding the following new

49 Stat. 1151; Ante, p. 607. 16 USC 590p.

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