---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7998"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7998"
heading: "Estimates of net farm income"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7998"
units:
  - "Chapter 106 — Commodity Programs"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administration"
---

# §7998. Estimates of net farm income


In each issuance of projections of net farm income, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) shall include (as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13))—

- (1) an estimate of the net farm income earned by commercial [producers](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) in the [United States](/usc/7/7901.md?p=16); and
- (2) an estimate of the net farm income attributable to commercial [producers](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) of each of the following:
  - (A) Livestock.
  - (B) [Loan commodities](/usc/7/7901.md?p=8).
  - (C) Agricultural commodities other than [loan commodities](/usc/7/7901.md?p=8).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1615, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 222.)