Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

Contributors in Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

Alteration of the environment, as through the introduction of hazardous or detrimental substances, heat, or noise whose nature, location, or quantity produces adverse health or environmental effects. ...

police power

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The constitutional power which authorized governments to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public. Adoption of environmental protections laws are a use of the police power.

point source pollution

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

from the Clean Water Act,a source of pollution from "any discernable, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, ...

point

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A measure of price change equal to 1/100 of one cent in most futures contracts traded in decimal units. In grains, it is one cent; in T-bonds, it is one percent of par.

Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

P.L. 91-577 (December 24, 1970) was enacted to provide patent-like protection for new non-hybrid seed varieties. The ultimate goal was to create an incentive for public and private research on new ...

plant regulator

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A chemical that affects the physiological behavior of plants, for example through accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or maturation of produce. Typically the definition of plant regulator ...