Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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proximate cause

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A legal term used to describe the causal relation between and action and an outcome. The term is important in trying to determine and assign responsibility for damages. The generally assign ...

promotion program

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Any program by an approved commodity promotion board or marketing order, including paid advertising, to present a favorable image of an agricultural commodity to the public to stimulate sales and ...

projected yield

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The number of bushels (or pounds or hundredweight) per acre that, based on current weather estimates and other factors, USDA analysts estimate farmers will harvest.

The farm commodity yield of record, determined, in general, by averaging the yield of a particular commodity for the past 5 years, dropping the high and low years. This yield was used in calculating ...

program crops

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Crops eligible for deficiency payments under commodity program provisions that ended in 1995. These were wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice. These same crops are now called contract commodities ...

productivity

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The relationship between the quantity of inputs (land, labor, tractors, feed, etc.) employed and the quantity of output produced. An increase in productivity means that more outputs can be produced ...

productive capacity

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The amount that could be produced within the next season if all the resources currently available were fully employed using the best available technology. Productive capacity increases whenever the ...