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Agricultural programs & laws
Of or pertaining to laws, political programs or schemes related to agriculture.
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Agricultural programs & laws
Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
One result of the 1994 legislative reorganisation of USDA was the consolidation of the ASCS, FCIC and FmHA into a single agency, the FSA. This agency is responsible for administering farm ...
Farm Credit System Assistance Board
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
A temporary board created by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 and responsible for approving Farm Credit System lender requests for federal financial assistance. Members of the Board consisted of ...
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC)
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
An entity of the Farm Credit System (FCS), established by law in 1987, to insure the timely repayment of principal and interest on FCS debt securities.
Farm equity
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
The net worth of the farm sector's assets (i.e., farmland, machinery, equipment, facilities, crop and livestock inventories) against which there is no debt. This represents all farm proprietors' ...
Farm income
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
Several measures are used to gauge the earnings of a farming operation over a given period of time: Gross cash income is the sum of all receipts from the sale of crops, livestock, and farm related ...
Farm
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
As defined for purposes of the Census of Agriculture since 1978, a farm is any place that has, or has the potential to produce, $1,000 or more in annual gross sales of farm products. According to the ...
Farm acreage base
Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws
The total of the crop acreage bases (wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice) for a farm for a year, the average acreage planted to soybeans and other non-program crops, and the average acreage devoted ...