Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

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

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Basis risk

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The possibility of unexpected variation in basis and a resulting loss of expected revenue when a futures contract is liquidated and the commodity sold on the cash market.

An index of the weighted average annual price for beef cattle, excluding calves, for a 16 western state area as compared with a specific base period equal to 100. This index is used in calculating ...

Below-cost timber sale

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A timber sale from national forest lands in which the expected federal revenues are less than the estimated federal expenses to sell the timber.

Best management practises (BMP's)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A conservation practise or combination of practises designed to maintain agricultural productivity while reducing point- and nonpoint- source water pollution. State water quality agencies (or their ...

Biological monitoring

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Using living organisms to test the quality of either effluent to be discharged into receiving waters, or waters downstream from a discharge.

Biologics

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Immunisation vaccines, bacterins, antigens, and antitoxins and other preparations made from living organisms and their products, intended for use in diagnosing, immunizing, or treating humans or ...

Biomagnification

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The increase in the concentration of bioaccumulated toxic chemicals in organisms higher on the food chain due to preferential storage of the toxic chemical in edible body parts. For example, ...