Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Water Quality Initiative

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A multi-agency effort, initiated by USDA in 1990, to determine relationships between agricultural activities and water quality, and develop and implement strategies that protect surface and ...

Water Quality Incentives Program

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

This program was authorized in the FACT Act of 1990 and is administered by the Farm Service Agency. It was repealed and replaced by the Environmental Quality Incentives Program in the FAIR Act of ...

Water Quality Act of 1987

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The Amendments to the Clean Water Act passed by Congress in 1987 which added the §319 nonpoint source pollution program.

A program to set aside wetlands for a period of 10 years (renewable) for conservation purposes. Participants receive annual rental payments. As these contracts expire, participants are offered the ...

Water 2000 Initiative

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The program administered by the Rural Utilities Service whose goal is to improve the quality of drinking water in distressed rural areas with the most serious safe drinking water problems.

waste treatment pond

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A shallow lagoon or similar storage facility, often man-made, used to treat liquid agricultural wastes, particularly liquid manure from livestock production farms, through the interaction of ...

wash versus trim

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

USDA requires that any time fecal contamination is detected during meat and poultry processing, it must be removed from the carcass. At issue is how this rule has been applied and enforced by USDA in ...