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Glossary of Agricultural Production, Programs and Policy

4th Edition

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A Time to Act

A Time to Choose

A-Index

AEolian soil

AFO/CAFO Strategy

Abandon (insurance)

Abandon(ed); abandonment

Abattoir

Abiotic

Abnormal farm(s)

Absolute advantage

Accelerated Pseudorabies Eradication Program (APEP)

Accelerated erosion

Acceleration of loan repayment

Access to broadband telecommunication services in rural areas

Access to broadband telecommunication services in rural areas

Accession

Accrual net income

Accrual net income

Acid(s); acidic; acidity

Acre-foot

Acreage allotment(s)

Acreage diversion program(s)

Acreage estimate

Acreage limitation program

Act of April 14, 1971 (P.L. 92-10)

Action threshold

Action threshold

Active ingredient(s)

Active personal labor (7 U.S.C. §§ 1308-1)

Active personal management (7 U.S.C. §§ 1308-1)

Actual Production History (yield) insurance (APH)

Actual county yield

Actual production

Actual production history (APH)

Actual production history (APH) yield

Actual production history floor

Actuals

Actuarial soundness; actuarially sound

Ad hoc disaster assistance (program(s)

Ad valorem

Additional (AMTA) payment(s)

Additional acreage

Additional coverage

Additional crop

Additionals (peanuts) loan rate

Additionals; additional peanuts

Additive(s)

Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR)

Adjusted Gross Revenue-Lite (AGR-Lite)

Adjusted gross income limit; adjusted gross income cap

Adjusted world price (AWP)

Adjusted world price (cotton)

Adjusted world price (rice)

Adjuster (crop insurance)

Adjustment for price and yield lease

Adjustment for price only lease

Adjustment for yield only lease

Administrative offset

Adulterant(s) (food)

Adulterated (foods)

Advance (direct) payment(s)

Advanced deficiency payment(s)

Advanced materials

Advanced meat recovery (AMR)

Advanced meat recovery product(s)

Advanced priced; advance pricing (dairy)

Advanced recourse loan(s)

Adverse (loan quality)

Adverse action(s) (loans)

Adverse decision(s)

Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN)

Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers

Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases (FAPD)

Advisory Committee on Small Farms

Aerial photography

Aerial seeding; aerial sowing

Aerobe

Aerobic

Aerobic decomposition

Aerobic lagoon

Affidavit weight(s)

Afforestation

Aflatoxin

Africa: Seeds of Hope Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-385)

African Growth and Opportunity Act (P.L. 106-200)

African swine fever (ASF)

Africanized honeybee(s)

Ag in the Classroom; Agriculture in the Classroom

AgSTAR program

Agency for International Development

Aggie bond(s)

Aggregate Measure of Support (AMS)

Aging

AgrAbility

Agreement on Agriculture

Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)

Agribusiness(es)

Agricultural Act of 1949 (P.L. 81-439)

Agricultural Act of 1956 (P.L. 84-540)

Agricultural Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-297)

Agricultural Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-524)

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (P.L. 75-430)

Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-7)

Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002

Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP)

Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (P. L. 95-334)

Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (P.L. 100-233) (12 U.S.C. §§ 2001 et seq.)

Agricultural Credit Associations (ACA)

Agricultural Credit Bank(s) (ACB)

Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-554)

Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund (ACIF)

Agricultural Credit Technical Corrections Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-399)

Agricultural Credits Act of 1923

Agricultural Economic Assistance Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-25)

Agricultural Export/Import Statistics Report

Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 (P.L. 90-288) (7 U.S.C. §§ 2301 et seq.)

Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-460)

Agricultural Genome Initiative

Agricultural Loan Mediation Program

Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA) (7 U.S.C. §§ 7201 et seq.)

Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA) payment(s)

Agricultural Market Transition program

Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. §§ 1621 et. seq.)

Agricultural Marketing Agreements Act of 1937 (P.L. 75-137) (7 U.S.C. §§ 601 et. seq.)

Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)

Agricultural Mediation Program

Agricultural Program(s)

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-258)

Agricultural Quarantine Inspection program (AQI)

Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1987 (P.L. 100-203)

Agricultural Research Facilities Planning and Closure Commission

Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (AREERA) (P.L. 105-185)

Agricultural Resources Conservation Program (ARCP)

Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA) (P.L. 106-224)

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS)

Agricultural Telecommunications Program (7 U.S.C. § 5926)

Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-501)

Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Food for Peace) (P.L. 83-480)

Agricultural Trade Office(s) (ATO)

Agricultural Water Quality Protection Program (AWQPP)

Agricultural adjustment (program)

Agricultural association(s)

Agricultural attache service

Agricultural bank(s)

Agricultural commodity graders (grading)

Agricultural commodity(ies)

Agricultural cooperative(s)

Agricultural credit

Agricultural district(s)

Agricultural employer(s)

Agricultural employment

Agricultural experiment station(s) (AES)

Agricultural inputs

Agricultural labor(er)(ers)

Agricultural land(s)

Agricultural lien

Agricultural officers

Agricultural operation(s)

Agricultural product(s)

Agricultural protection zones (APZ)

Agricultural research facility(ies)

Agricultural runoff

Agricultural supplies

Agricultural use value

Agricultural use(s)

Agricultural waste

Agricultural zoning

Agriculture Innovation Center Demonstration Program

Agriculture Risk Management Education Competitive Grants Program (RME)

Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-86)

Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (P.L. 97-98)

Agriculture in Concert with the Environment (ACE)

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (P.L. 105-277)

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (P.L. 106-78)

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (P.L. 106-387)

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (P.L. 107-76)

Agripreneurship

Agritourism; agrotourism

Agro-silvo-pastoral

Agrobiodiversity

Agrobiology

Agroecology

Agroecosystem(s)

Agroforestry

Agronomic rate(s)

Agronomy; agronomic

Agrostology

Air-cured tobacco

Air-injection stunning

Air-jet spinning

Alar

Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program

Alfalfa

Algicides

Alkaline; alkalinity

Allelopathy

Alley cropping

Alley(s)

Alliance(s)

Allied industry(ies); allied business(es); allied company(ies)

Allocation(s)

Allotment management plan(s) (AMP)

Allotment transfer

Allotment(s)

Allotment(s) (marketing order)

Allowance for loan losses

Allowed synthetic

Alluvial soil

Alluvium

Alternate hosts

Alternate stocking

Alternative (loan) repayment rate

Alternative Agricultural Research & Commercialization Center (AARC)

Alternative Agricultural Research & Commercialization Corporation (AARC)

Alternative agriculture

Alternative calculation methods

Alternative catastrophic (crop insurance) coverage

Alternative conservation system

Alternative crop(s)

Alternative farming

Alternative fuel(s)

Alternative pest control

Amaranth

Amber Box policies

Amendments to the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 (PACA) (P.L.104-48)

American Agri-Women (AAW)

American Agriculture Movement (AAM)

American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF)

American Farmland Trust (AFT)

American Indian Livestock Feed Program (AILFP)

American Meat Institute (AMI)

American Pima; Pima

American Sheep Industry Association (ASI)

American Soybean Association (ASA)

American Sugarbeet Growers Association (ASGA)

American foulbrood

Ammonia

Amortize(d); amortization

Anaerobe

Anaerobic

Anaerobic decomposition

Anaerobic digester(s)

Anaerobic digestion (AD)

Anaerobic lagoon

Anaplasmosis

Anatomist

Andean Pact

Anhydrous ammonia

Animal Care (AC)

Animal Damage Control (ADC)

Animal Damage Control Act (7 U.S.C. §§ 426-426c)

Animal Drug Availability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-250)

Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-346) (18 U.S.C. § 43)

Animal Health Protection Act (P.L. 107-171) (7 U.S.C. §§ 8301 et seq.)

Animal Health and Disease Research (7 U.S.C. § 3195)

Animal Welfare Act (AWA) (P.L. 89-544) (7 U.S.C. §§ 2131-2156)

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

Animal drugs

Animal enterprise

Animal feeding operation(s) (AFO)

Animal food manufacturer

Animal husbandry

Animal identification

Animal protein

Animal rights

Animal unit day

Animal unit month (AUM)

Animal unit(s)

Animal waste management facility

Animal welfare

Announced loan level

Announced loan rate

Announced loan repayment rate

Announced world price

Annual (contract) payment rate

Annual(s)

Antemortem (inspection)

Anthracnose

Anthrax

Antibiotic(s)

Antibody

Antibody (based) assay(s)

Anticipated residue level (ARL)

Antigen(s)

Antimicrobial resistance (in livestock)

Antimicrobial(s)

Antioxidant(s)

Aphid(s)

Apiary

Apomixis

Apple Market Loss Assistance Program (AMLAP)

Applicable alternative repayment rate

Applied research

Appraised yield

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas

Appropriation(s)

Appropriation(s) (agricultural)

Approved warehouse storage

Approved yield

Aquaculture center(s)

Aquaculture facility

Aquaculture; aquacultural

Aquifer(s)

Arable (land)

Arbitrage

Arbitration

Arbitrator

Arboretum

Arboriculture

Area cross-compliance

Area plan

Area quota pool(s)

Area salvage

Area trigger

Area yield options contract

Area yield threshold

Area yield; area yield history

Area(wide) marketing associations

Areas of critical environmental concern

Arid; arid climate

Armyworms

Aromatic (milled) rice

Artificial insemination (AI)

Artificial regeneration; artificially regenerated

Aseptic processing

Aseptic; aseptically

Asian longhorned beetle (ALB)

Assay

Assembly

Assessment(s) (programs)

Asset (quality) classification(s)

Asset value (AV)

Asset(s)

Assign(ed)

Assigned yield(s)

Assignment (of payment)

Assistance Type Cooperative Agreement

Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

Assisting America's Small Farmers and Ranchers in the 21st Century

Assistive Technology Program for Farmers with Disabilities (7 U.S.C. § 5933)

Association(s) of (agricultural) producers

Astroculture

At grass

At-the-money option

Atmosphere

Atrazine

Atrophy

Attainable yield

Attainment area

Attractant(s)

Attribution

Auction (sale) barn

Auction (tobacco)

Auction market system (tobacco)

Auction market(s) (tobacco)

Australian Wheat Board (AWB)

Authorization(s); authorize(d)(s); authority(ies)

Authorized commodity

Autoclave

Automatic take-off

Available forage

Average adjusted gross income

Average daily balance (ADB)

Average world price

Average yield(s)

Avian influenza

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