date:Sep 29, 2018
as well as a plug yield of 75% of the county average yield if farm yields were below it. Upland cotton, no longer a covered commodity in 2014, would not have updated payment yields. When Congress added seed cotton in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, however, it also provided farms with upland cotton yields the opportunity to update upland cotton yields using the 2014 calculation (90% of the average for 2008 to 2012) and seed cotton was given a multiplier of 2.4 times the updated upland cotton