Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

Industry: Agriculture

Add a new term

Contributors in Agricultural programs & laws

Become a Contributors

Agricultural programs & laws

active ingredient

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

In any pesticide product, the component that kills, or otherwise controls, target pests. Pesticides are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency primarily on the basis of active ingredients.

As opposed to tolerances (which are established for pesticide residues occurring as a direct result of proper usage), action levels are set for inadvertent residues resulting from previous legal use ...

acre-foot

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The volume of water that would cover one acre of land (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot, equivalent to 325,851 gallons of water. an acre-foot is the basic measure of agricultural water use. ...

acreage reduction program (ARP)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A no longer authorized annual cropland retirement program for wheat, feed grains, cotton, or rice in which farmers participating in the commodity programs (in order to be eligible for nonrecourse ...

acreage limitation

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

With respect to commodity policy, acreage limitation might refer to planting constraints under an acreage reduction program, set-aside, or paid land diversion. In relation to water policy, it is the ...

acreage diversion program

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Historically, commodity programs included provisions to reduce commodity supplies by diverting acreage to non-crop uses. Examples include paid diversion, unpaid diversion, set-aside, and acreage ...