Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Horse Protection Act

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

P.L. 91-540 (December 9,1970), as amended, makes it a crime to exhibit, or transport for the purpose of exhibiting, any "sored" horse, which is one whose feet have been injured deliberately to ...

A program authorized by the emergency provisions of the FY1999 USDA appropriations act (P.L. 105-277, October 21, 1998) that makes recourse loans based on a national average rate of $0.56 per pound ...

Honey Program

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Non-recourse marketing loans had long been available to support honey prices until FY1994, when the funding was suspended by provisions in annual appropriations legislation. The FACT Act of 1990 had ...

homestead protection

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

holding pond

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A pond or reservoir, usually made of earth, built to store polluted runoff.

hog/corn ratio

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Number of bushels of corn equal in value to 100 pounds of live hogs (feed ratio). Put another way, the price of hogs, per hundredweight, divided by the price of corn per bushel. Since corn is a major ...

highly erodible land

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Land that is very susceptible to erosion, including fields that have at least 1/3 or 50 acres of soils with a natural erosion potential of at least 8 times their T value. More than 140 million acres ...