- agricultural commodity
has the meaning given the term in section 5602 of this title.
- agricultural operation
includes the production and marketing of agricultural commodities and livestock.
- average crop revenue election payment
means a payment made to producers on a farm under section 8715 1 of this title.
- base acres for peanuts
has the meaning given the term in section 8751 of this title.
- counter-cyclical payment
means a payment made to producers on a farm under section 8714 1 of this title.
- covered commodity
means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, long grain rice, medium grain rice, pulse crops, soybeans, and other oilseeds.
- demand
means—
- direct payment
means a payment made to producers on a farm under section 8713 1 of this title.
- effective price
means the price calculated by the Secretary under section 8754 1 of this title for peanuts to determine whether counter-cyclical payments are required to be made under that section for a crop year.
- eligible hard white wheat seed
means hard white wheat seed that, as determined by the Secretary, is—
- extra long staple cotton
means cotton that—
- geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher
has the meaning given the term in section 10906(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2204 note;
- high moisture state
means corn or grain sorghum having a moisture content in excess of Commodity Credit Corporation standards for marketing assistance loans made by the Secretary under section 8731 of this title.
- limited global import quota
means a quantity of imports that is not subject to the over-quota tariff rate of a tariff-rate quota.
- loan commodity
means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, long grain rice, medium grain rice, soybeans, other oilseeds, graded wool, nongraded wool, mohair, honey, dry peas, lentils, small chickpeas, and large chickpeas.
- medium grain rice
includes short grain rice.
- other oilseed
means a crop of sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, crambe, sesame seed, or any oilseed designated by the Secretary.
- payment acres
means, in the case of direct payments and counter-cyclical payments—
- payment yield
means the yield established for direct payments and the yield established for counter-cyclical payments under section 7912 of this title as in effect on September 30, 2007, or under section 8712 of this title, for a farm for a covered commodity.
- producer
means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing a crop and is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the farm, or would have shared had the crop been produced.
- program
means the hard white wheat development program established under subsection (b)(1).
- pulse crop
means dry peas, lentils, small chickpeas, and large chickpeas.
- Secretary
means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- special import quota
means a quantity of imports that is not subject to the over-quota tariff rate of a tariff-rate quota.
- State
means—
- supply
means, using the latest official data of the Bureau of the Census, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of the Treasury—
- target price
means the price per bushel, pound, or hundredweight (or other appropriate unit) of a covered commodity used to determine the payment rate for counter-cyclical payments.
- United States Premium Factor
means the percentage by which the difference in the United States loan schedule premiums for Strict Middling (SM) 1⅛-inch upland cotton and for Middling (M) 13⁄32-inch upland cotton exceeds the difference in the applicable premiums for comparable international qualities.