§ 718.209 - Transfer of allotments and quotas—State public lands.

(a) Transfers of allotments and quotas between farms in the same county may be permitted where both farms are lands owned by the State.

(b) An application requesting the transfer of one or more of the allotments and quotas on a farm entirely comprised of lands owned by a State shall be filed with the county committee by the State. The application shall identify the farms as being within the same county, show that each farm is entirely comprised of lands owned by the State, and list the allotments and quotas requested to be transferred. Additional information with respect to the present operations on the farms, including all leasing arrangements, shall also be set forth in the application.

(c) The State committee shall establish the closing date for filing applications under paragraph (b) of this section for each year which shall be no later than the general planting date in the county for the commodity involved in the transfer.

(d)(1) Each transfer of an allotment and quota under this section shall be adjusted for differences in farm productivity if the yield projected for the year the transfer is to take effect for the farm to which transfer is made exceeds by more than ten percent the yield projected for the year the transfer is to take effect for the farm from which transfer is made. The county committee shall determine the amount of the allotment and quota to be transferred where a productivity adjustment is required to be made by dividing:

(i) The product of the yield for the farm from which the transfer is made and the acreage to be transferred from such farm, by

(ii) The yield for the farm to which the transfer is made.

(2) Acreage for the farm receiving the allotment or quota shall be adjusted by the same percentage as the allotment or quota being transferred is adjusted. The amount of the allotment and quota and related acreage transferred from the farm from which the transfer is made shall be the full amount, but the amount of all allotment or quota and related acreage for the farm to which the transfer is made shall be the adjusted amount.

(e) The amount of allotment and quota on a farm after a transfer under this section is made shall not exceed the average amount of allotment or quota of at least three farms with acreage of cropland similar to the farm receiving the transfer in the community having the applicable allotment acreage and quota on these farms.

(f) Each transfer of any allotment and quota shall be subject to the condition that an acreage equal to the allotment and quota transferred, before any productivity adjustment, shall be devoted to and maintained in permanent vegetative cover on the farm from which the transfer is made. The acreage to be devoted to and maintained in permanent vegetative cover with respect to quota crops shall be determined by dividing the quota transferred by the yield of the farm from which the quota is transferred.

(g) Transfer of an allotment and quota under this section shall only be approved if:

(1) The county committee determines that a timely filed application has been received and that the provisions of this section have been met; and

(2) A representative of the State committee also determines that the provisions of this section have been met. If such a transfer is approved, the county committee shall issue revised notices of the allotment or quota for each farm affected by the transfer. If a county committee obtains evidence that the conditions applicable to any transfer under this section have not been met, a report of the facts shall be made to the State committee. If the State committee determines that such conditions have not been met, the transfer will be canceled, and the allotment and quota shall be retransferred to the original farm. Where cancellation and retransfer is required, the county committee shall issue revised notices of the allotment or quota showing the reasons for the cancellation of the transfer.