§ 723.201 - Determination of preliminary farm acreage allotments and preliminary farm marketing quotas.

(a) Flue-cured tobacco. A preliminary farm acreage allotment shall be determined for the current year for each farm which has flue-cured tobacco history acreage for the base period. The preliminary farm acreage allotment shall be the same as the farm acreage allotment established for the preceding year.

(b) Burley tobacco. The preceding year's farm marketing quota shall be the current year's preliminary farm marketing quota for each old farm except that the preliminary farm marketing quota shall be zero if:

(1) The farm or all of cropland has gone out of agricultural production and eminent domain procedure of part 718 of this chapter does not apply.

(2) Quota that was pooled under the provisions of part 718 of this chapter has been canceled.

(3) A new farm quota that was established in a prior year is canceled.

(4) There was no acreage of burley tobacco planted or considered planted for any year of the base period.

(5) All the cropland on the farm has been determined by the county FSA committee to be no longer suitable for the production of a crop and provisions of part 704 of this chapter do not apply.

(6) Beginning with the 1994 crop year there was no acreage of burley tobacco planted or considered planted in 2 out of the 3 immediate preceding years.

(c) Kinds of tobacco other than flue-cured and burley. A preliminary farm acreage allotment shall be determined for each farm which has tobacco history acreage, as established under paragraph § 723.218 of this part in the base period. If the history acreage for the previous year is the same as the basic allotment, the preliminary allotment shall be the same as the previous year's basic allotment. Otherwise, the preliminary allotment shall be the simple average of the sum of the basic allotment and history acreage for the preceding year.