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Agricultural programs & laws
Of or pertaining to laws, political programs or schemes related to agriculture.
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Commodity loan rates
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
Price per unit (pound, bushel, bale, or hundredweight) at which the CCC provides nonrecourse loans to farmers to enable them to hold programme crops for later sale. Commodity loans under the FAIR Act ...
Commodity programmes
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
This term is usually meant to include the commodity price and income support programmes administered by the Farm Service Agency and financed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. The commodities now ...
Commodity exchange
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
An organisation operating under a set of bylaws aimed at promoting trade in one or more commodities by providing services and rules for the conduct of trade.
Commodity Exchange Authority
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
A former regulatory agency of USDA established to administer the Commodity Exchange Act prior to 1975; the predecessor of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
The independent federal regulatory agency established by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 to administer the Commodity Exchange Act. It regulates trading on the futures exchanges ...
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Act of
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
This Act is P.L. 93-463 (October 23, 1974) which created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to replace the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority, as the independent ...
Commodity promotion programmes
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
Programmes that advertise and promote an agricultural commodity or product without reference to the specific farmer, brand name, or manufacturer. Producers can and do organise voluntary commodity ...
