Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Agricultural programs & laws

Whole Herd Buy-out programme

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Programme in 1985 Farm Bill whereby producers could submit bids to the Secretary for the purpose of ending milk production in return for payment.

A programme to set aside wetlands for a period of 10 years (renewable) for conservation purposes. Participants receive annual rental payments. As these contracts expire, participants are offered the ...

Water 2000 Initiative

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The programme administered by the Rural Utilities Service whose goal is to improve the quality of drinking water in distressed rural areas with the most serious safe drinking water problems.

Waste treatment pond

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A shallow lagoon or similar storage facility, often man-made, used to treat liquid agricultural wastes, particularly liquid manure from livestock production farms, through the interaction of ...

Wash versus trim

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

USDA requires that any time faecal contamination is detected during meat and poultry processing, it must be removed from the carcass. At issue is how this rule has been applied and enforced by USDA ...

Wellhead Protection Areas

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The term, from the Safe Drinking Water Act, refers to the area consisting of the "surface and subsurface area surrounding a water and wellfield, supplying a public water system, through which ...

Watershed and flood prevention operations

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A programme area of the Natural Resources Conservation Service that includes Flood Prevention Operations (under the Flood Control Act of 1944, P.L. 78-534), Emergency Watershed Protection, and Small ...