Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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preproduction expenses

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Expenses incurred prior to the period when a farm activity begins producing, primarily raising orchard trees or breeding animals.

prevented planting acreage

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Land on which a farmer intended to plant a program crop or insurable crop, but was unable to because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster. Used in the calculation of disaster payments and ...

preharvest

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Refers to activities on the farm or ranch that occur before crop or livestock products are sold. "Preharvest food safety activities," for example, is a term often used to describe USDA’s efforts, ...

Agreements among a group of countries to extend special trading advantages, usually tariff rates that are lower than most-favored nation rates. The U.S.’s Caribbean Basin Initiative and the EU’s Lome ...

precision farming

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Farmers use global positioning (GPS) technology involving satellites and sensors on the ground and intensive information management tools to understand variations in resource conditions within ...

prairie potholes

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A type of wetland that is at the center of a shallow depression characteristic of glaciated areas in the Upper Midwest (North Dakota especially). Many potholes are wet during only a portion of the ...

poverty thresholds

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

For statistical purposes (e.g., counting the poor population), the Census Bureau uses a set of annual income levels — the poverty thresholds — slightly different than the federal poverty ...