1.   Also, many farmers freed of government planting restrictions opted for more profitable crops, such as corn or soybeans.

2.   An end to government planting restrictions has encouraged farmers to take advantage of favorable prices by boosting their plantings of both corn and soybeans.

3.   Acreage controls are lifted for wheat, feed grains and soybeans, but some planting restrictions remain on cotton and rice farmers to avert price-depressing surpluses.

4.   Callers also questioned how widely publicized the recommended planting restrictions for the crop had been.

5.   Opponents, though, said sugar reforms have been made in the bill, including lifting planting restrictions on domestic sugar farmers and allowing larger amounts of imports.

6.   Planting restrictions end.

7.   Sugar growers charge that an end to planting restrictions will depress prices.

8.   Under the proposed legislation, the government would replace these programs with fixed payments that would gradually decline over seven years, and it would end planting restrictions.

9.   Wheat and corn growers would have no planting restrictions.

10.   Farmers will be required to sign papers each year stating that they are aware of planting restrictions for the corn.