Agricultural Commodity Cooperator Law and Legal Definition
A "cooperator" with respect to any basic agricultural commodity is defined as “a producer on whose farm the acreage planted to the commodity does not exceed the farm acreage allotment for the commodity under title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, or in the case of price support for corn or wheat to a producer outside the commercial corn-producing or wheat-producing area, a producer who complies with conditions of eligibility prescribed by the Secretary: Provided, That for upland cotton a cooperator shall be a producer on whose farm the acreage planted to such cotton does not exceed the cooperator percentage, which shall be in the case of the 1966 crop, 87.5 per centum of such farm acreage allotment and, in the case of each of the 1967 through 1970 crops, such percentage, not less than 87.5 or more than 100 per centum, of such farm acreage allotment as the Secretary may specify for such crop, except that in the case of small farms (i.e. farms on which the acreage allotment is 10 acres or less, or on which the projected farm yield times the acreage allotment is 3,600 pounds or less, and the acreage allotment has not been reduced under section 344(m) [7 USCS § 1344(m)]) the acreage of cotton on the farm shall not be required to be reduced below the farm acreage allotment: And provided, That for the 1971 through 1977 crops of upland cotton a cooperator shall be a producer on a farm on which a farm base acreage allotment has been established who has set aside the acreage required under section 103(e) [7 USCS § 1444(e)]: Provided further, That for the 1976 through 1981 crops of rice, a cooperator shall be a person who produces rice on a farm for which a farm acreage allotment has been established or to which a producer acreage allotment has been allocated and, if a set-aside is in effect, who has set aside any acreage required under section 101(g) [7 USCS § 1441(g): Provided further, That for the 1978 through 1981 crops of upland cotton, a cooperator shall be a producer on a farm who has set aside the acreage required under section 103(f) [7 USCS § 1444(f)]. For the purpose of this subsection, a producer shall not be deemed to have exceeded his farm acreage allotment unless such producer knowingly exceeded such allotment.” (7 USCS § 1428)
Legal Definition list
- Agricultural Commodity
- Agricultural Biosecurity
- Agricultural Association
- Agricultural Aircraft Operation
- Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1938
- Agricultural Commodity Cooperator
- Agricultural Commodity Producer
- Agricultural Cooperative Agreement [Agriculture]
- Agricultural Countermeasure
- Agricultural Disease Emergency
- Agricultural Education
Related Legal Terms
- Acceptable Quality Level [Agricultural Marketing Service]
- Acceptance [Agricultural Marketing Service]
- Affiliate of a Futures Commission Merchant, Commodity Trading Advisor, Commodity Pool Operator or Introducing Broker
- Agricultural Activity
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1938
- Agricultural Aircraft Operation
- Agricultural Association
- Agricultural Biosecurity
- Agricultural Commodity
