What are the major provisions of the Freedom to Farm Act of 1996?

The Freedom to Farm Act ended price supports and acreage allotments for wheat, corn, barley, oats, sorghum, rye, cotton, and rice. Farmers were allowed to respond to changing crop prices by planting as much or as little of these crops as they chose. To ease the transition away from price supports, the law established declining annual payments through the year 2002, but those payments were not tied to crop prices or the current crop produced.