Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Work/training programs, food stamp

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Work/training programmes have two meanings in the food stamp program: (1) most able-bodied unemployed or underemployed (less than 30 hours a week) adults not caring for very young children must ...

Western organisation of Resource Councils (WORC)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A private advocacy organisation representing some western ranchers who want USDA to play a more prominent regulatory role in live cattle markets. In 1996, WORC submitted a controversial petition ...

Wind erosion equation

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

An equation used to design wind erosion control systems, which considers soil erodibility, soil roughness, climate, the unsheltered distance across a field, and the vegetative cover on the ground.

Wool and mohair commodity programmes

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Income support was provided to producers of wool and mohair under authority of the National Wool Act of 1954, as amended, through 1995. Phase down and termination of the programmes was mandated in ...

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A term, currently used most often in international trade discussions, that designates crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods (e.g., Flavr ...

Generally recognised as Safe (GRAS)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A regulatory category created for a group of food additives that were exempted from the more rigorous regulatory requirements for food additives in the 1958 Food Additives Amendment to the Food Drug ...

General Sales Manager (GSM)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

General Sales Manager of the Foreign Agricultural Service. This office administers the export credit guarantee programmes (GSM-102 and GSM-103), the export enhancement program, the P.L. 480 program, ...