Planting flexibility

Like the House, the Senate Agriculture Committee appears to support the industry's call for continuation of the fruit and vegetable planting prohibition on flex acres, with one rather broad exception. Here is what the Senate Ag Committee's section by section analysis of farm bill markup says about planting flexibility provision:

Sec.1106. Planting flexibility.
Allows any commodity or crop to be planted on base acres on a farm and specifies exceptions for the following: trees, perennial plants, fruits, vegetables (other than mung beans and pulse crops), and wild rice. If planted, these crops may be destroyed before harvest. Specifies situations in which the limitation of these crops may not apply. Provides for a pilot project in Indiana for the production of tomatoes for processing on up to 10,000 base acres during each of the 2008 through 2012 crop years.