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[79 STAT. 1199]
PUBLIC LAW 89-000—MMMM. DD, 1965
[79 STAT. 1199]

79 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 89-321-NOV. 3, 1965

1199

transferred has a substantially higher yield per acre and such other terms and conditions as he deems necessary. " (g) If the sale or lease occurs during a period in which the farm is covered by a conservation reserve contract, cropland conversion agreement, cropland adjustment agreement, or other similar land utilization agreement, the rates of payment provided for in the contract or agreement of the farm from which the transfer is made shall be subject to an appropriate adjustment, but no adjustment shall be made in the contract or agreement of the farm to which the allotment is transferred. " (h) The Secretary shall by regulations authorize the exchange between farms in the same county, or between farms in adjoining counties within a Stat«, of cotton acreage allotment for rice acreage allotment. Any such exchange shall be made on the basis of application filed with the county committee by the owners and operators of the farms, and the transfer of allotment between the farms shall include transfer of the related acreage history for the commodity. The exchange shall be acre for acre or on such other basis as the Secretary determines is fair and reasonable, taking into consideration the comparative productivity of the soil for the farms involved and other relevant factors. No farm from which the entire cotton or rice allotment has been transferred shall be eligible for an allotment of cotton or rice as a new farm within a period of five crop years after the date of such exchange. "(i) The provisions of this section relating to cotton shall apply only to upland cotton." TITLE V—WHEAT SEC. 501. Effective beginning with the crop planted for harvest in the calendar year 1966, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended as follows: (1) Section 332 is amended by changing item (iv) in subsection (b) y^usc'ua?" to read: "will be utilized during Such marketing year in the United States as livestock (including poultry) feed, excluding the estimated quantity of wheat which will be utilized for such purpose as a result of the substitution of wheat for feed grains under section 328 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962" and by adding the following new y^us^c^'iasg^c subsection: " (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secretary shall not proclaim a national marketing quota for the crops of wheat planted lor harvest in the calendar years 1966 through 1969, and farm marketing quotas shall not be in effect for such crops of wheat." (2) Section 333 is amended to read as follows: "The Secretary shall 76 Stat. 62o. proclaim a national acreage allotment for each crop of wheat. The ^ "^^ ^^^^• amount of the national acreage allotment for any crop of wheat shall be the number of acres which the Secretary determines on the basis of the projected national yield and expected underplantings (acreage other than that not harvested because of program incentives) of farm acreage allotments will produce an amount of wheat equal to the national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year for such crop, or if a national marketing quota was not proclaimed, the quota which would have been determined if one had been proclaimed. (3) Subsection (a) of section 334 is amended to read as follows: 7^us*c*'i33^4 "(a) The national allotment for wheat, less a reserve of not to National aiiot. exceed 1 pei" centum thereof for apportionment as provided in this sub- '"^"tsection and less the special acreage reserve provided for in this subsection, shall be apportioned by the Secretary among the States on the basis of the preceding year's allotment for each such State, including all amounts allotted to the State and including for 1967 the increased