acreage allotment

A farm's acreage allotment, under provisions of permanent commodity price support law, is its share, based on its previous production, of the national acreage needed to produce sufficient supplies of a particular crop.{{cite web|url=https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1333&num=0&edition=prelim |title=7 USC 1333: National acreage allotment, Text contains those laws in effect on November 30, 2020 on USCode}} Under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Title I), acreage allotments are not applicable to the covered commodities, peanuts, or sugar. Subsequently, allotments and quotas and price support for tobacco were eliminated beginning in 2005 (P.L. 108-357, Title VI).