---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 8788"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "8788"
heading: "Durum wheat quality program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/8788"
units:
  - "Chapter 113 — Agricultural Commodity Support Programs"
  - "Subchapter V — Administration"
---

# §8788. Durum wheat quality program

- (a) **In general—** Subject to the availability of funds under [subsection (c)](#c), the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall provide compensation to [producers](/usc/7/8702.md?p=13-A) of durum wheat in an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the actual cost of fungicides applied to a crop of durum wheat of the [producers](/usc/7/8702.md?p=13-A) to control Fusarium head blight (wheat scab) on acres certified to have been planted to Durum wheat in a crop year.
- (b) **Insufficient funds—** If the total amount of funds appropriated for a fiscal year under [subsection (c)](#c) are insufficient to fulfill all eligible requests for compensation under this section, the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall prorate the compensation payments in a manner determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) to be equitable.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2012.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–234, title I, § 1613, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1019; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title I, § 1613, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 1748.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title.