[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR723.204]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 723--TOBACCO--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart B--Allotments, Quotas, Yields, Transfers, Release and 
           Reapportionment, History Acreages, and Forfeitures
 
Sec. 723.204  Determination of farm yields and normal yields.

    (a) Flue-cured tobacco. The farm yield for an old farm shall be 
determined by multiplying the preliminary farm yield, if the farm has 
such a yield, by the national yield factor for the current year. The 
farm yield for new farms and old farms that do not have a preliminary 
yield shall be that yield, which the county FSA committee determines for 
the farm taking into consideration:
    (1) The soil and other physical factors affecting the production of 
tobacco on the farm, and
    (2) The farm yields determined for other farms on which the soil and 
other physical factors affecting the production of tobacco are similar.
    (b) Burley tobacco. The farm yield for a farm on which a farm yield 
has been established shall be the same in the current year as the farm 
yield previously established for the farm. For any farm not having a 
previously established yield, the county FSA committee shall establish a 
yield based on similar farms having a farm yield; however, such yield 
shall not exceed 3500 pounds.
    (c) All kinds of tobacco except burley and flue-cured. The normal 
yield for a farm shall be that yield which the county FSA committee 
determines is normal for the farm taking into consideration the yields 
obtained on the farm during any of the years of the base period for 
which data are available, the soil and other physical factors affecting 
the production of tobacco on the farm, and the yields obtained on other 
farms in the locality which are similar with respect to such factors. 
The normal yield first determined for a farm for any year in accordance 
with the foregoing provision shall serve as the normal yield for the 
farm for all purposes in connection with the tobacco marketing program 
for the year for which such normal yield is determined.

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