Permanent transfer of acreage base histories under proportionate shares.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) A sugarcane producer on a farm may transfer all or a portion of the producer's acreage base history of land owned, operated, or controlled to any other farm in the State that the producer owns, operates, or controls under the Deputy Administrator-issued instructions. The transfer will reduce permanently the transferring farm's sugarcane acreage base history and increase the receiving farm's crop acreage base. (1) All farm owners must agree in writing to the transfer. (2) Producers may transfer sugarcane acreage base histories under this section by the date the State FSA committee establishes annually. (b) Sugarcane acreage base that has been converted to nonagricultural use on or before May 13, 2002, may be transferred to other land suitable for the production of sugarcane under the following terms: (1) CCC must notify 1 or more affected landowners within 90 days of becoming aware of the conversion, of their rights to transfer the base to 1 or more farms owned by the landowner; (2) The landowner has 90 days from the date the landowner was notified to transfer the base; (3) If the landowner does not exercise this transfer right, the grower of record will have 90 days after being notified by CCC to transfer the base to 1 or more farms owned by the grower; (4) If the transfers as specified under paragraphs (b)(2) or (3) of this section are not accomplished during the specified periods, FSA county committee will place the base into a pool for possible reassignment to other fa

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 1435.313