Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Actuarially sound

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The financial goal of any insurance programme (including the federal crop insurance program) is to operate on an actuarially sound basis; that is, total premiums collected should more than offset ...

Actual production history (APH)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A measure of an individual farmer's annual production of a commodity over a multi-year period. The APH serves as the basis for the farmer's "normal" crop yield in the crop insurance program. When the ...

Adjusted world price

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

As part of the upland cotton and the rice marketing assistance loan programs, USDA calculates and publishes, on a weekly basis, what is known as the adjusted world price (AWP). The AWP is the ...

Adjusted gross revenue (AGR) pilot programme

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A pilot revenue insurance programme first implemented in 1999 by USDA on a limited basis. It allows farmers to receive a guarantee of a percentage of their revenue for multiple commodities, including ...

Additional peanuts

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Peanuts sold from a farm in any marketing year in excess of the amount of quota peanuts sold from that farm. Additional peanuts must be exported or crushed into oil and meal. Additionals are eligible ...

Administrative convergence

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

USDA in 198 was developing a plan to consolidate the administrative function (e.g., accounting, budgeting, procurement, personnel) of its field service agencies at the state level under one office, ...

Administrative Procedure Act

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

This Act is P.L. 79-404 (July 11, 1946), as amended, establishes, among other things, minimum procedural requirements or models for federal agency rulemaking and certain types of hearings. For ...