Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Percolation

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The movement of water downward and radially through subsurface soil layers, usually continuing downward to groundwater. The rate at which soils permit percolation is a measure of the vulnerability of ...

Plant regulator

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A chemical that affects the physiological behaviour of plants, for example through accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or maturation of produce. Typically the definition of plant regulator ...

Plant-pesticide

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

As proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (November 23, 1994), plant-pesticides are all substances responsible for pest resistance in plants, as well as the genes needed for production of ...

Plant quarantine

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A technique for insuring disease (and pest) free plants by isolating them during a period while performing tests for latent diseases. Often used when importing new cultivars.

Plant Quarantine Act

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Originally enacted in 1912, this Act gives the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service authority to regulate the importation and interstate movement of nursery stock and other plants that may ...

Permitted acreage

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The acreage on which a farm programme participant is permitted to grow a programme crop after satisfying acreage reduction requirements. For example, when a 10% acreage reduction programme is in ...

Persistent pesticides

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Pesticides that do not readily break down in the environment. Becoming long-lived components of the ecosystem, these chemicals may have enduring effects at low concentrations or may bioaccumulate, ...