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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 ...

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