[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1437.12]

[Page 597-598]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1437_NONINSURED CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  1437.12  Crop definition.

    (a) For the purpose of providing benefits under this part, CCC will, 
at its discretion, define crops as specified in this section.
    (b) CCC may separate or combine types and varieties as a crop when 
specific credible information as determined by CCC is provided showing 
the crop of a specific type or variety has a significantly different or 
similar value when compared to other types or varieties, as determined 
by CCC.
    (c) CCC may recognize two or more different crops planted on the 
same acreage intended for harvest during the same crop year as two or 
more separate crops. The crop acreage may include a crop intended for 
harvest before planting of a succeeding crop or a succeeding crop 
interseeded with the preceding crop prior to intended harvest of the 
preceding crop. The acreage must be in an area where the practice is 
recognized as a good farming practice, as determined by CCC, and all 
crops are recognized by CCC as able to achieve the expected yield, as 
determined by CCC.
    (d) CCC may consider crop acreage that is harvested more than once 
during the same crop year from the same plant as a single crop. The 
acreage must be in an area where the practice is recognized as a good 
farming practice, as determined by CCC.
    (e) CCC may consider each planting period of multiple planted 
acreage as a separate crop. The acreage must be in

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an area where the practice is recognized as a good farming practice, as 
determined by CCC.
    (f) CCC may define forage as separate crops according to the 
intended method of harvest, either mechanical harvest or grazed.
    (g) Forage acreage intended to be grazed may be further defined as 
warm and cool season forage crops.
    (h) Forage acreage intended to be mechanically harvested may be 
defined as a separate crop from grazed forage and may be separated based 
upon the commodity used as forage, to the extent such separation is 
allowed under paragraph (b) of this section.
    (i) Crop acreage intended for the production of seed may be 
considered a separate crop from other intended uses, as determined by 
CCC, if all the following criteria apply:
    (1) The specific crop acreage is seeded, or intended to be seeded, 
with an intent of producing commercial seed as its primary intended use;
    (2) There is no possibility of other commercial uses of production 
from the same crop without regard to market conditions; and
    (3) The growing period of the specific crop acreage is uniquely 
conducive to the production of commercial seed and not conducive to the 
production of any other intended use of the crop, (e.g. vernalization in 
a biennial crop such as carrots and onions) and that accommodation 
renders the possibility of production for any other intended use of the 
crop improbable.