[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: 7CFR777.3]

[Page 459]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 777--DISASTER PAYMENT PROGRAM FOR 1990 CROP OF SUGARCANE, SUGAR BEETS, SOYBEANS AND PEANUTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 777.3  Definitions.

    In determining the meanings of the provisions of this part, unless 
the context indicates otherwise, words imparting the singular include 
and apply to several persons or things, words imparting the plural 
include the singular, words imparting the masculine gender include the 
feminine as well, and words used in the present tense include the past 
and future as well as the present. The following terms shall have the 
following meanings and all other words and phrases shall have the 
meanings assigned to them in the regulations governing the 
reconstitution of farms in part 719 of this chapter.
    Actual production means the quantity of soybeans and peanuts 
actually harvested and in the case of sugar beets and sugarcane the 
quantity of sugar produced from such crop, or which could have been 
harvested or produced as determined by the county ASC committee in 
accordance with instructions issued by the Deputy Administrator, State 
and County Operations (Deputy Administrator), (FSA). Such quantity 
includes all harvest acreages including sugarcane harvested for seed.
    Disaster payment yield means as applicable, the average of actual 
yields for the years 1987 through 1989 in accordance with instructions 
issued by the Deputy Administrator or the county average yield for the 
crop, established by FSA. Such county average yield shall be the average 
of the county average yields, including seed cane production, for the 
years 1985 through 1989 as determined by NASS, excluding the year in 
which the yield was the highest and the year in which the yield was the 
lowest.
    Eligible crop means the 1990 crop of sugarcane, sugar beets, 
soybeans and peanuts.
    Eligible disaster means a December 1989 frost or freeze.
    Eligible producer means, with respect to an eligible crop for which 
an application for disaster payment has been made under this part, a 
person who as owner, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper is entitled to 
share in such crops, or the proceeds therefrom, available for marketing 
from the farm or would have been if such crop had been produced. Such 
person includes the producer who was on the farm at the time of the 1989 
freeze and who may or may not have been the producer who harvested the 
1990 crop.
    Expected production means the disaster yield times the sum of the 
1990 planted acreage of the crop and the 1990 prevented planted acreage 
of the crop.