Sec. 2. Base acres
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Section 1112 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 ( 7 U.S.C. 9012 ) is amended— by redesignating subsections
(b)through
(d)as subsections
(c)through (e), respectively; by inserting after subsection
(a)the following: In this subsection, the term underserved farmer of covered commodities means an underserved producer (as defined in section 508(a)(7)(A) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1508(a)(7)(A) )) or a limited resource or economically distressed farmer (as determined by the Secretary) of 1 or more covered commodities. As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of the Southern CROPS Act , the Secretary shall provide a 1-time opportunity for an underserved farmer of covered commodities to increase base acres on a farm if— the underserved farmer of covered commodities— is an operator on the farm and provides a significant contribution of active personal labor on the farm; or has, or has an option to obtain, a significant ownership share of the farm or a business producing covered commodities on the farm, as determined by the Secretary; and the average number of acres on the farm planted or prevented from planting as described in subclauses
(I)and (II), respectively, of paragraph (3)(A)(i) to covered commodities during the 2018 through 2022 crop years is greater than the number of base acres on the farm. Subject to subparagraph (B), the number of base acres added to a farm under paragraph
(2)shall be equal to the difference between— the sum obtained by adding— the 5-year average of the acreage planted on the farm to all covered commodities for harvest, grazing, haying, sileage, or other similar purposes for the 2018 through 2022 crop years, according to records submitted to the Farm Service Agency or the Risk Management Agency; and the 5-year average of any acreage on the farm that was prevented from planting to 1 or more covered commodities during the 2018 through 2022 crop years because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, or other condition beyond the control of the producers, according to records submitted to the Farm Service Agency or the Risk Management Agency; and the number of base acres for covered commodities on the farm. Not more than 160 base acres shall be added to any farm under paragraph (2). The Secretary shall ensure that producers on a farm do not reconstitute the farm for the purpose of increasing the number of cumulative acres added to the farm under paragraph (2). Base acres added to a farm under paragraph
(2)shall be added to the base acreage of each covered commodity on the farm in the proportion that— the acreage planted or prevented from planting to the covered commodity on the farm; bears to the acreage planted or prevented from planting to all covered commodities on the farm. If an underserved farmer of covered commodities on a farm for which base acres have been increased under paragraph
(2)does not own or operate the farm for any of the 2025 through 2029 crop years, the Secretary shall reduce the number of base acres on the farm by the number of base acres added to the farm under paragraph
(2)for that crop year, in the same proportion among covered commodities on the farm described in paragraph (3)(C). ; and in subsection
(d)(as so redesignated), in paragraph (2)(C), by striking (b)(1)(C) and inserting (c)(1)(C) .
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