Legal Opinion
Franz Penner Merle Doughty Howard Pehle Gary Kesler v. Edward Madigan, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture Morris Westfall
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1992No. 91-2760PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) diversion and deficiency payments to farmers — payments made for not growing certain crops — are calculated by multiplying the number of eligible acres by the “farm program payment yield” per acre. In this action, four Missouri farmers claim that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Missouri State Executive Director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), a USDA agency, have unlawfully refused to establish separate program payment yields for irrigated Missouri crop lands. The district court 1…
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