Sec. 1301. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 1301 DEFINITIONS **[**[7 U.S.C. 7951](/us/usc/t7/s7951)**]** In this subtitle: ####
(1)Base acres for peanuts The term “**base acres for peanuts**” means the number of acres assigned to a farm by historic peanut producers pursuant to section 1302(b). ####
(2)Counter-cyclical payment The term “**counter-cyclical payment**” means a payment made under section 1304. ####
(3)Effective price The term “**effective price**” means the price calculated by the Secretary under section 1304 for peanuts to determine whether counter-cyclical payments are required to be made under that section for a crop year. ####
(4)Direct payment The term “**direct payment**” means a payment made under section 1303. ####
(5)Historic peanut producer The term “**historic peanut producer**” means a producer on a farm in the United States that produced or was prevented from planting peanuts during any or all of the 1998 through 2001 crop years. ####
(6)Payment acres The term “**payment acres**” means— #####
(A)for the 2002 crop of peanuts, 85 percent of the average acreage determined under section 1302(a)(2) for an historic peanut producer; and #####
(B)for the 2003 through 2007 crops of peanuts, 85 percent of the base acres for peanuts assigned to a farm under section 1302(b). ####
(7)Payment yield The term “**payment yield**” means the yield assigned to a farm by historic peanut producers pursuant to section 1302(b). ####
(8)Producer The term “**producer**” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing a crop on a farm and is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the farm, or would have shared had the crop been produced. In determining whether a grower of hybrid seed is a producer, the Secretary shall not take into consideration the existence of a hybrid seed contract and shall ensure that program requirements do not adversely affect the ability of the grower to receive a payment under this subtitle. ####
(9)Secretary The term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of Agriculture. ####
(10)State The term “**State**” means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other territory or possession of the United States. ####
(11)Target price The term “**target price**” means the price per ton of peanuts used to determine the payment rate for counter-cyclical payments. ####
(12)United states The term “**United States**”, when used in a geographical sense, means all of the States.
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