Agriculture's Set-aside Programs Should Be Improved V. CED-80-9

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CED-80-9 1 (1980-01-11)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL

Report To The Congress

OF THE UNITED STATES

Agriculture's Set-Aside Programs

Should Be Improved

The Department of Agriculture's wheat and
feed grain set-aside programs--taking cropland
out of production to reduce expected
surpluses--would be more effective if Agri-
culture adopted a stricter certification and
compliance program and eliminated the cur-
rent system of good faith determinations and
monetary penalties. This would also simplify
program administration and reduce county
office workload.

Normal crop acreages for wheat and feed
grain farms need to be reestablished so that
they represent acreages usually planted to
crops. In reviewing 1978 normal crop acreages
initially established for 226 farms and ad-
justed for 107 farms, GAO found that 57 and
45, respectively, were incorrect, unsupported,
or otherwise questionable. In most of these
cases, the acreages were overstated, thereby
reducing the set-aside programs' effectiveness.

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