The definitions in this section are applicable for all purposes of administering this subpart. The terms defined in 7 CFR parts 718 and 1400 are also applicable, except where those definitions conflict with the definitions specified in this section. Where there is a conflict or a difference in definitions specified in this subpart and parts 718 and 1400, the regulations in this subpart will apply.

CCC-555 means Form CCC-555, Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) Program Application.

Corn means only white, yellow, amylose, popcorn (excluding strawberry popcorn), waxy, and high amylase corn.

Cotton means extra-long staple cotton and upland cotton.

Crop year means the calendar year in which a commodity was intended for harvest.

Determined acres means that acreage established by an FSA representative by use of official acreage, digitizing areas on a photograph or other imagery, or computations from scaled dimensions or ground measurements.

Double cropping means, as determined by the Deputy Administrator on a regional basis, consecutive planting of two specific crops that have the capability to be planted and carried to maturity for the intended uses, as reported by the producer, on the same acreage as the initial crop is planted, within a 12-month period. To be considered double cropping, the planting of two specific crops must be in an area where the FSA State Committee has determined that producers are typically able to repeat the same cycle successfully in a subsequent 12-month period under normal growing conditions.

Dry peas mean Austrian, green, wrinkled seed, and yellow peas, excluding peas grown for the fresh, canning, or frozen market.

Eligible commodity means a 2025 crop of barley, canola, corn, crambe, extra-long staple cotton, flax, large chickpeas, lentils, mustard, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, rice, safflower, sesame, small chickpeas, sorghum, soybeans, sunflower, upland cotton, and wheat.

Eligible producer means a producer of an eligible commodity who timely filed Form FSA-578 with FSA and who complies with all provisions of this subpart.

Extra-long staple cotton means cotton that follows the standard planting and harvesting practices of the area in which the cotton is grown, and meets all of the following conditions:

(1) American-Pima, Sea Island, Sealand, all other varieties of the Barbadense species of cotton and any hybrid thereof, and any other variety of cotton in which 1 or more of these varieties is predominant;

(2) The acreage is grown in a county designated as an extra-long staple cotton county by the Secretary; and

(3) The production from the acreage is ginned on a roller-type gin.

FSA-578 means Form FSA-578, Report of Crop Acreage.

Payment rate means the amount per acre for an eligible commodity that CCC has determined to use to provide assistance to eligible producers in accordance with this subpart.

Peanuts means all peanuts excluding perennial peanuts.

Rice means long grain rice and medium grain rice, including temperate japonica rice, short grain, and sweet rice.

Skip-row means a cultural practice in which rows of a crop are alternated with strips of idle land or another crop, as determined by the Secretary.

Sorghum means both grain sorghum and dual-purpose sorghum (including any cross that, at all stages of growth, having characteristics of a feed grain or dual-purpose variety). Sweet sorghum is not considered a grain sorghum.

Upland cotton means cotton that is produced in the United States from other than pure strain varieties of the Barbadense species, any hybrid thereof, or any other variety of cotton in which one or more of these varieties predominate. In other words, it means any cotton that is not extra-long staple cotton.