§ 1414.106 — Eligible acres.

§ 1414.106 Eligible acres.

(a) Eligible acres under this subpart include 2025 crop year acres planted in the United States to an eligible specialty crop, excluding acreage reported as a cover crop, prevented planted, or with an intended use of grazing, left standing, green manure, silage, forage, volunteer, or experimental. To be eligible for payment under this subpart, producers must have reported the acreage planted to these crops to FSA on FSA-578 by April 24, 2026.

(b) ASCF Program payments will be based on timely reported acres. If reported acres have determined acres present, determined acres will be used.

(c) In situations where a producer planted both an initial crop and a subsequent crop on the same acreage for the 2025 crop year, both the initial crop and the subsequent crop will be eligible for the ASCF Program if they were eligible specialty crops.

(d) If a producer has repeated plantings of an eligible specialty crop on the same acreage during the 2025 crop year, all plantings of that crop are eligible for payment under this subpart.

(e) Acres grown in a controlled environment, excluding acreage of mushrooms, are not eligible for payment under this subpart.