A farm qualifies where its five-year planted acreage beats its base acres
What the document says“effective beginning with the 2026 crop year, a farm is eligible to receive an allocation of base acres if, with respect to the farm, the amount described in subparagraph (B) exceeds the amount described in subparagraph (C).”
The section makes a farm eligible from the 2026 crop year where a five-year average sum exceeds the farm's total base acres for covered commodities, excluding unassigned crop base, as in effect on September 30, 2024. The five-year average sum is the 2019 through 2023 average of acreage planted to covered commodities for harvest, grazing, haying, silage or similar purposes plus acreage that could not be planted because of drought, flood, other natural disaster or another condition beyond the producers' control, plus the lesser of 15 percent of the farm's total acres and the same five-year average worked out for eligible noncovered commodities.
What the document actually says“effective beginning with the 2026 crop year, a farm is eligible to receive an allocation of base acres if, with respect to the farm, the amount described in subparagraph (B) exceeds the amount described in subparagraph (C).”
From the 2026 crop year a farm may get new acres. It qualifies where one figure beats another. The two figures are set out below.
The first figure counts what was planted from 2019 to 2023. It also counts land that floods or drought kept from being planted. The second figure is the farm's base acres as of September 30, 2024.
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