Set-aside program
In United States agricultural policy, the set-aside program was a program under which farmers were required to set aside a certain percentage of their total planted acreage and devote this land to approved conservation uses in order to be eligible for nonrecourse loans and deficiency payments. Set-aside acreage was based on the number of acres a farmer actually planted in the program year as opposed to being based on prior crop years. The authority for set-aside was eliminated by the 1996 farm bill.
