Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Production Credit Associations

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Lending groups, owned by their farmer-borrowers, that provide short and intermediate-tem loans for up to 10 years from funds obtained from investors in money markets. These associations are an ...

Production control

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Any government programme or policy intended to limit production. These have included acreage reduction, set-asides and diverted acreage.

These contracts specify who supplies the production inputs, the quality and quantity of the commodity to be produced, and the compensation for the producer. Under some livestock production contracts, ...

Private voluntary organisation (PVO)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A nongovernmental, nonprofit organisation that provides economic and social assistance to people in need, often in foreign countries. PVOs play an important role, along with cooperatives, in ...

Producer subsidy equivalent (PSE)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A measure of the value of monetary transfers to agricultural producers resulting from agricultural policies in a given year. It includes both transfers from consumers of agricultural products ...

Information privacy

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The right to control the disclosure of personal information; often referred to as confidentiality, but more accurately might be called data protection. Many landowners, including farmers, have grown ...

Prior converted wetland

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Under the swampbuster program, these are wetlands that were converted to cropland before swampbuster was enacted on December 23, 1985, and meet wetland criteria for saturated soils or water-loving ...