Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

An independent federal government agency established in 1970 and charged with coordinating effective governmental action concerning the environment, including setting standards, promulgating and ...

Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A program created by the FAIR Act of 1996 to provide primarily cost-sharing assistance, but also technical and educational assistance, aimed at reducing soil, water, and related natural resource ...

epidemiology

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Study of the distribution of disease, or other health-related conditions and events in human or animal populations, in order to identify health problems and possible causes.

equivalence

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A term applied by the Uruguay Round Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures. WTO Member countries shall accord acceptance to the SPS measures of other countries ...

erosion

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The wearing away of the land surface. Unconsolidated materials, such as soil, erode more rapidly than consolidated materials, such as rock. The most common causes of erosion are wind and moving ...

The erosion (sometimes called erodibility) index is created by dividing potential erosion (from all sources except gully erosion) by the T value, which is the rate of soil erosion above which long ...

estuary

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Regions of interaction between rivers and near-shore ocean waters, where tidal action and river flow mix fresh and salt water. Such areas include bays, mouths of rivers, salt marshes, and lagoons. ...