OATS.

SEC. 302. OATS. (a) Farm Acreage Bases.—Section 503 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1463) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, effective for each of the 1989 and 1990 crops, if the acreage limitation percentage established for a crop of feed grains under section 1050(f) is 12.5 percent or less, the Secretary shall permit producers on a farm to designate any portion of the farm acreage base (excluding any portion designated as soybean acreage base) for the crop year as acreage base established for oats. For the purposes of determining the farm acreage base or the crop acreage bases for the farm, any acreage on the farm that is designated as oats base under this paragraph and planted to oats for harvest in 1989 or 1990 shall be considered to be planted to the program crop for which oats are substituted. “(2) The Secretary shall not make program benefits other than benefits available under the program established for oats available to producers with respect to acreage planted to oats under paragraph (1), 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) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that if the acreage limitation requirement established for the 1989 or 1990 crop of feed grains under section 105C(f) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is more than 12.5 percent, the Secretary of Agriculture should establish the lowest possible acreage limitation requirement for such crop of oats under section 105C(f) if market imbalances for barley and oats exist.