Permitted acreage
In United States agricultural policy, permitted acreage refers to the acreage on which a farm program participant was permitted to grow a program crop after satisfying acreage reduction requirements. For example, when a 10% acreage reduction program was in effect for wheat, a farmer with a wheat base could grow wheat on, the permitted acres. Limits on production were eliminated under the 2002 farm bill through crop year 2007, as also was done under the 1996 farm bill.