Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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contract acreage

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Enrolled 1996 commodity base acreage under the FAIR Act of 1996 for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice (generally fixed for 1996 through 2002). A farmer may voluntarily choose to reduce ...

contract commodity

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The commodities previously eligible for deficiency payments and now eligible for production flexibility contracts under the FAIR Act of 1996: wheat, corn, sorghum, barley, oats, rice, and upland ...

contract payments under AMTA

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Some $36 billion in payments to be made to farmers for contract crops for fiscal years 1996-2002 under Title I of the FAIR Act of 1996, known as the Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA). The ...

converted wetland

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Under the swampbuster program, these are wetlands that were drained or altered to improve agricultural production after December 23, 1985, the date swampbuster was enacted. On lands with this ...

conveyance loss

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Water loss in pipes, channels, conduits, ditches by leakage or evaporation.

An enterprise or organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those using its services. In agriculture, such an organization is owned and used by farmers mainly to handle the off-farm part ...

cooperative extension system

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A federal-state-local cooperative education system that provides continuing adult education based on the academic programs of the land grant colleges of agriculture and their affiliated state ...