TITLE 7 - AGRICULTURE

SUBTITLE B - REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER VII - FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

SUBCHAPTER B - FARM MARKETING QUOTAS, ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS, AND PRODUCTION ADJUSTMENT

PART 718 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MULTIPLE PROGRAMS

subpart b - DETERMINATION OF ACREAGE AND COMPLIANCE

718.110 - Adjustments.

  (a) The farm operator or other interested producer having excess tobacco acreage (other than flue-cured or burley) may adjust an acreage of the crop in order to avoid a marketing quota penalty if such person: (1) Notifies the county committee of such election within 15 calendar days after the date of mailing of notice of excess acreage by the county committee; and (2) Pays the cost of a farm inspection to determine the adjusted acreage prior to the date the farm visit is made.

  (b) The farm operator may adjust an acreage of tobacco (except flue-cured and burley) by disposing of such excess tobacco prior to the marketing of any of the same kind of tobacco from the farm. The disposition shall be witnessed by a representative of FSA and may take place before, during, or after the harvesting of the same kind of tobacco grown on the farm. However, no credit will be allowed toward the disposition of excess acreage after the tobacco is harvested but prior to marketing, unless the county committee determines that such tobacco is representative of the entire crop from the farm of the kind of tobacco involved.