Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the federal government. The Code is divided into 50 titles that ...

Citizen suits

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Refers to the provisions often found in environmental laws which authorise any citizen to bring a lawsuit to enforce the provisions of an environmental law.

Under federal milk marketing orders, the minimum price a processor must pay for milk used for fluid consumption (Class I milk) is the basic formula price plus the Class I differential. The Class I ...

Class I equivalency

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The amount of less productive land in a water district receiving Bureau of Reclamation water (Classes 2, 3, and 4) that would be necessary to be equivalent in productive potential to Class I land. ...

Class I land

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Under reclamation law, Class I land is defined as irrigable land within a particular agricultural economic setting that is productive enough to yield the highest level of suitability for continuous, ...

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A wholly owned government corporation created in 1933 to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices (federally chartered by the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1948 (P.L. ...

Commodity distribution

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Direct donation of food products by the federal government to needy persons, schools, and institutions. Commodities are either entitlement or bonus. Bonus commodities can be received when they are ...