Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

Of or pertaining to laws, political programs or schemes related to agriculture.

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administrative convergence

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

USDA in 198 was developing a plan to consolidate the administrative function (e.g., accounting, budgeting, procurement, personnel) of its field service agencies at the state level under one office, ...

Administrative Procedure Act

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

This Act is P.L. 79-404 (July 11, 1946), as amended, establishes, among other things, minimum procedural requirements or models for federal agency rulemaking and certain types of hearings. For ...

adulterated food

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Generally, impure, unsafe, or unwholesome; however, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act contain separate language ...

advance deficiency payments

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Initial payments (ranging from 30 to 50% of the total payment) made to crop producers when they signed up for federal commodity programs. If the total deficiency payment was eventually calculated to ...

advance recourse loans

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Price-support loans made early in a crop year to farmers to enable them to hold their crops for later sale, usually within the marketing year. Farmers must repay the recourse loan with interest and ...

Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiatio

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A 45-member group appointed by the President to provide advice on matters of trade policy and related issues, including trade agreements. The 1974 Trade Act requires the ACTPN's establishment and ...

affirmative defense

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A legal argument a defendant to a legal preceding can raise which provides a protection or defense for the conduct in question. In actions for the costs of cleaning up groundwater contamination state ...