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Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Commodity Distribution programme

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

This programme supplies authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to use agricultural surplus removal (Section 32) and Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to buy commodities for child and ...

Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendmen

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

This Act is P.L. 100-237 (January 8, 1988) which established a free-standing law requiring the USDA to improve the distribution and quality of commodities donated to child nutrition programs. Also ...

Colonia

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A substandard housing area defined in the Housing Act of 1949 as any identifiable community that: (1) is in the states of Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas; (2) is in an area that is within ...

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

This Act is P.L. 93-320 (June 24, 1974), and the laws authorising three other conservation cost-sharing programs, were repealed in the FAIR Act of 1996 and replaced by a new cost-sharing program, the ...

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control programme

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

This programme was authorised in the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act and was repealed and replaced by the Environmental Quality Incentives programme in the FAIR Act of 1996. Administered by ...

Combine

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A self-propelled machine for harvesting grain and other seed crops. In one operation, it cuts, threshes, separates, and cleans the grain and scatters the straw.

Chlorophenoxy herbicides

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A class of pesticides that includes 2,4-D. They mimic plant hormones. Uses of some have been cancelled because of concerns about adverse health effects.

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