SOYBEAN, SUNFLOWER, AND SAFFLOWER PLANTING PROGRAM; FEED GRAIN ACREAGE LIMITATION PROGRAM.

SEC. 1002. SOYBEAN, SUNFLOWER, AND SAFFLOWER PLANTING PROGRAM; FEED GRAIN ACREAGE LIMITATION PROGRAM. (a) Planting of Soybeans, Sunflowers, and Safflowers on Permitted Acreage.—Effective only for the 1990 crops, subsection (e) of section 504 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1464(e)) is amended to read as follows: “(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act— 103 STAT. 2107 “(1) Effective for the 1990 crops, the Secretary shall, subject to paragraph (2), permit producers on a farm to plant soybeans, sunflowers, or safflowers on a portion specified by the producer (but in any event not more than 25 percent) of the producers’ 1990 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, and rice permitted acreage, as determined by the Secretary. “(2)(A) The Secretary shall establish a sign-up period during which the producers on a farm, participating in the 1990 crop wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, or rice price support and production adjustment program, must state their intentions regarding use of the increased planting provision under paragraph (1). “(B) After termination of the sign-up period under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall estimate whether, based on the anticipated additional soybean, sunflower, and safflower plantings for the crop, the average market price for the 1990 crop of soybeans will be below 110 percent of the loan rate established for the 1989 crop of soybeans. “(C) If the Secretary estimates that the average market price for the 1990 crop of soybeans will be below 110 percent of such loan rate, the Secretary shall reduce the percentage of permitted acreage on the farm that may be planted to soybeans, sunflowers, and safflowers to a level, or prohibit such plantings, as necessary to ensure that the average soybean market price does not fall below 110 percent of such loan rate. “(D) The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a statement setting forth the reasons for any reduction in the permitted planting percentage, or prohibition on such plantings, under this paragraph. “(3)(A) For the purposes of determining the farm acreage base or the crop acreage bases for the farm, any acreage on the farm on which soybeans, sunflowers, or safflowers are planted under this subsection shall be considered to be planted to the program crop for which soybeans, sunflowers, or safflowers are substituted. “(B) The Secretary may not make program benefits other than soybean or sunflower seed price support loans and purchases available to producers with respect to acreage planted to soybeans, sunflowers, or safflowers under this subsection and shall ensure that the crop acreage bases established for the farm and the farm acreage base are not increased due to such plantings.”. (b) Feed Grain Acreage Limitation Program.—Effective only for the 1990 crop of feed grains, section 105C(f)(1)(C) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1444e(f)(1)(C) is amended— (1) by striking “(C)”, “1990”, “(i)”, and “(ii)” and inserting “(C)(i)”, “1989”, “(I)”, and “(II)”, respectively; and (2) by adding at the end the following new clause: “(ii) In the case of the 1990 crop of feed grains, if the Secretary estimates, not later than September 30, 1989, that the quantity of corn on hand in the United States on the first day of the marketing year for that crop (not including any quantity of corn of that crop) will be— “(I) more than 2,000,000,000 bushels, the Secretary shall provide for an acreage limitation program (as described in para-103 STAT. 2108graph (2)) under which the acreage planted to feed grains for harvest on a farm would be limited to the feed grain crop acreage base for the farm for the crop reduced by not less than 12½ percent nor more than 20 percent; “(II) less than 2,000,000,000 bushels but more than 1,800,000,000 bushels, the Secretary shall provide for an acreage limitation program (as described in paragraph (2)) under which the acreage planted to feed grains for harvest on a farm would be limited to the feed grain crop acreage base for the farm for the crop reduced by not less than 10 percent nor more than 12½ percent; or “(III) 1,800,000,000 bushels or less, the Secretary may provide for an acreage limitation program (as described in paragraph (2)) under which the acreage planted to feed grains for harvest on a farm would be limited to the feed grain crop acreage base for the farm for the crop reduced by not more than 10 percent.”.