Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Prime farmland

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Land that is best suited to and available for the production of food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops. It can be cropland, pastureland, rangeland, forestland, or other land. It has the soil ...

Prices received index

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

An index that measures changes in the prices received for crops and livestock. NASS currently publishes the index on a 1990-92=100 base. A ratio of the prices received index to the prices paid index ...

Prices paid index

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

An index that measures changes in the prices paid for goods and services used in crop and livestock production and family living. The production component of the index accounts for over 65% of the ...

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 ...

Production flexibility contract

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A 7-year contract covering crop years 1996-2002, authorised by the FAIR Act of 1996 between the CCC and farmers, which makes fixed income support payments in place of the previous variable target ...

Poundage quota

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A quantitative limit on the amount of a commodity that can be marketed (also called a marketing quota) under the provisions of a permanent law. Once a common feature of price support programs, this ...