Up to 30 million additional base acres are handed out to eligible farms
What the document says“the Secretary shall provide notice to owners of eligible farms pursuant to paragraph (3) and allocate to those eligible farms a total of not more than an additional 30,000,000 base acres in the manner provided in this subsection.”
The section adds a new subsection (e) to section 1112 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9012) requiring the Secretary, as soon as practicable after enactment and notwithstanding subsection (a), to notify owners of eligible farms and to allocate to them no more than 30,000,000 additional base acres in all.
What the document actually says“the Secretary shall provide notice to owners of eligible farms pursuant to paragraph (3) and allocate to those eligible farms a total of not more than an additional 30,000,000 base acres in the manner provided in this subsection.”
The Secretary must write to the owners of farms that qualify. The Secretary must then hand out new base acres. No more than 30 million may be handed out in all.
Base acres are the acres a farm payment is worked out from. More base acres can mean bigger payments. The 30 million figure is a hard ceiling.
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