7 USC 9011 - Definitions

U.S Code last checked for updates: Aug 17, 2025

§ 9011.

Definitions

In this subchapter and subchapter II:

(1)

Actual crop revenue

(2)

Agriculture risk coverage

(3)

Agriculture risk coverage guarantee

(4)

Base acres

(A)

In general

(B)

Inclusion of generic base acres

(5)

County coverage

(6)

Covered commodity

(A)

In general

(B)

Inclusion

(7)

Effective price

(8)

Effective reference price

The term “effective reference price”, with respect to a covered commodity for a crop year, means the lesser of the following:

(A)

An amount equal to 115 percent of the reference price for such covered commodity.

(B)

An amount equal to the greater of—

(i)

the reference price for such covered commodity; or

(ii)

beginning with the crop year 2025, 88 percent of the average of the marketing year average price of the covered commodity for the most recent 5 crop years, excluding each of the crop years with the highest and lowest marketing year average price.

(9)

Extra long staple cotton

The term “extra long staple cotton” means cotton that—

(A)

is produced from pure strain varieties of the Barbadense species or any hybrid of the species, or other similar types of extra long staple cotton, designated by the Secretary, having characteristics needed for various end uses for which United States upland cotton is not suitable and grown in irrigated cotton-growing regions of the United States designated by the Secretary or other areas designated by the Secretary as suitable for the production of the varieties or types; and

(B)

is ginned on a roller-type gin or, if authorized by the Secretary, ginned on another type gin for experimental purposes.

(10)

Generic base acres

(11)

Individual coverage

(12)

Medium grain rice

(13)

Other oilseed

(14)

Payment acres

(15)

Payment yield

The term “payment yield”, for a farm for a covered commodity—

(A)

means the yield used to make payments pursuant to section 8714 or 8754 of this title, as in effect on September 30, 2013; or

(B)

means the yield established under section 9013 of this title.

(16)

Price loss coverage

(17)

Producer

(A)

In general

(B)

Hybrid seed

In determining whether a grower of hybrid seed is a producer, the Secretary shall—

(i)

not take into consideration the existence of a hybrid seed contract; and

(ii)

ensure that program requirements do not adversely affect the ability of the grower to receive a payment under this chapter.

(18)

Pulse crop

(19)

Reference price

(A)

In general

Effective beginning with the 2025 crop year, subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), the term “reference price”, with respect to a covered commodity for a crop year, means the following:

(i)

For wheat, $6.35 per bushel.

(ii)

For corn, $4.10 per bushel.

(iii)

For grain sorghum, $4.40 per bushel.

(iv)

For barley, $5.45 per bushel.

(v)

For oats, $2.65 per bushel.

(vi)

For long grain rice, $16.90 per hundredweight.

(vii)

For medium grain rice, $16.90 per hundredweight.

(viii)

For soybeans, $10.00 per bushel.

(ix)

For other oilseeds, $23.75 per hundredweight.

(x)

For peanuts, $630.00 per ton.

(xi)

For dry peas, $13.10 per hundredweight.

(xii)

For lentils, $23.75 per hundredweight.

(xiii)

For small chickpeas, $22.65 per hundredweight.

(xiv)

For large chickpeas, $25.65 per hundredweight.

(xv)

For seed cotton, $0.42 per pound.

(B)

Effectiveness

(C)

Limitation

(20)

Secretary

(21)

Seed cotton

(22)

State

The term “State” means—

(A)

a State;

(B)

the District of Columbia;

(C)

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and

(D)

any other territory or possession of the United States.

(23)

Temperate japonica rice

The term “temperate japonica rice” means rice that is grown in high altitudes or temperate regions of high latitudes with cooler climate conditions, in the Western United States, as determined by the Secretary, for the purpose of—

(A)

the reallocation of base acres under section 9012 of this title;

(B)

the establishment of a reference price (as required under section 9016(g) of this title) and an effective price pursuant to section 9016 of this title; and

(C)

the determination of the actual crop revenue and agriculture risk coverage guarantee pursuant to section 9017 of this title.

(24)

Transitional yield

(25)

United States

(26)

United States Premium Factor

(Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1111, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 659; Pub. L. 115–123, div. F, § 60101(a)(1)–(3), Feb. 9, 2018, 132 Stat. 308; Pub. L. 115–334, title I, § 1101, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4500; Pub. L. 119–21, title I, § 10301, July 4, 2025, 139 Stat. 86.)

cite as: 7 USC 9011