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Glossary of Agricultural Production, Programs and Policy

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DDT

DELMARVA

DES Proviso

DNA

DON

Daily liveweight gain

Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP)

Dairy Forward Pricing Pilot Program

Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA)

Dairy Import Licensing Program

Dairy Indemnity Program (DIP)

Dairy Management, Inc. (DMI)

Dairy Market Enhancement Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-532)

Dairy Market Loss Assistance Program (DMLA)

Dairy Options Pilot Program (DOPP)

Dairy Production Disaster Assistance Program

Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. §§ 4501-4514)

Dairy Promotion and Research Program

Dairy Recourse Loan Program

Dairy Refund Payment Program (DRPP)

Dairy Termination Program

Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983 (P.L. 98-180)

Dairy assessment(s)

Dairy cattle breeds

Dairy compacts

Dairy price-support program (DPSP)

Dairy product mandatory reporting

Dairy products

Dairy products (eligible)

Dairy surplus

Dairy tariff-rate import quota licensing

Dam

Damaged kernels

Damaging weather and related conditions

Dark-cutting beef

Daughter product(s)

Day-haul operation

Dead animal disposal

Dealer trust

Dealer(s)

Debarment

Debeak

Debt and Loan Restructuring System (DALR$)

Debt forgiveness

Debt limit

Debt settlement

Debt write-down

Debt/asset ratio

Deciduous

Declining-balance loan(s)

Decoupled; decoupling

Defect(s)(timber)

Defer(red)(ring)(ral)

Deferred delivery

Deferred months

Deferred pricing

Deferred taxation

Deferred-payment contract

Deficiency payment(s)

Defoliant(s)

Defoliate; defoliation

Deforestation

Degradable

Degradate(s)

Degradation

Dehiscent

Dehorn

Delaney Clause

Delaney Paradox

Delayed pricing

Delineation

Delinting

Deliver(y)(ed)(ies)(ing)

Deliverable grade(s)

Deliverable stocks

Delivery month(s)

Delivery notice

Delivery option

Delivery point(s)

Delivery price

Delta Regional Authority (DRA)

Delta Regional Authority Act of 2000

Demand curve

Demurrage

Denali Commission

Denali Commission Act of 1998

Denitrification

Density (cotton)

Density (wool)

Dent (corn)

Deoxynivalenol (DON)

Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-354)

Depletion allowance

Depooling

Depopulation; depopulated; depop

Depositors

Depreciation

Depredation

Desert Land Act

Desert Land Entry Act

Desert terminal lakes (program)

Desertification

Desiccants

Designated CAFO

Designated nonbasic commodities

Designated warehouse (tobacco)

Designer bug(s)

Detectable residue

Determination of non-regulated status

Detritus

Developed country(ies)

Developing country(ies)

Development venture capital

Dewlap

Diameter at breast-height (dbh)

Diameter inside bark

Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Dietary guidelines

Dietary supplement

Differential assessment(s)

Differential(s)

Digester gas

Digester(s)

Digestion

Digital orthophotography (DOP)

Digitizing

Diluvium

Dinoflagellates

Dioxin

Diploid

Direct Rural Housing Loans

Direct additive(s)

Direct and counter-cyclical program (DCP)

Direct attribution

Direct costs

Direct export credit

Direct farm labor housing program

Direct government payments

Direct hedge; direct hedging

Direct loan(s)

Direct market(s)(ing)

Direct money

Direct nonpotable water reuse

Direct payment(s)

Direct payment(s) (DP)

Direct policy

Direct potable water reuse

Direct purchases

Direct reuse (reclaimed water)

Direct-consumption sugar

Dirty(ies) (eggs)

Disappearance

Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-387)

Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-82)

Disaster Debt Set-Aside program

Disaster Reserve Assistance Program (DRAP)

Disaster Reserve Flood Compensation Program

Disaster and emergency assistance

Disaster assistance

Disaster payments

Disaster transfer (payments)

Discharge

Discipline(s)

Discount rate

Discount(s)(ed)

Discretionary account

Discretionary entry

Discretionary exit

Discretionary grant(s)

Discretionary spending

Disease vector

Diseconomies of scale

Disk pan

Disk(s)

Disking; disked

Dispute Settlement Body (DSB)

Dispute settlement

Distance Education Grants for Insular Areas

Distance Learning and Medical Link grant program

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program (DLT)

Distance education

Distance learning

Distant milk

Distillers' dried grains with solubles

Distinctly low quality

Distressed county(ies)

Distressed loan

Distributing plant (milk)

Distribution cooperative(s)

Diversification; diversify

Diversion limit

Diversion payments

Diversion systems

Diverted acres; diversion

Diverted milk; diverted; diversion

Dockage

Doggy

Dollar Plan

Domestic Food Programs

Domestic animal disease(s)

Domestic farm labor

Domestic price(s)

Domestic subsidy

Dominant

Donta

Dorsal

Dorsal root ganglia (DRG)

Double dressed-weight

Double insurance

Double-blind experiment

Double-crop(ping)(ped)

Down payment (farm ownership) loan program (for beginning farmers)

Down(ed) animals

Downers

Downy mildew

Drainage

Drainage basin(s)

Dress(ed)(ing)

Dressed weight

Dressed-weight pricing

Dressing percentage

Drift

Drill(ing)

Drip irrigation

Driver (dairy)

Drop credit

Drought Policy Commission

Drought stress

Drought tolerance

Dry cargo

Dry manure management (system)

Dry matter (DM)

Dry milk products

Dry mill(ed)(ing)

Dry peas

Dry period

Dry weight

Dry whey

Dry-matter intake (DMI)

Dry-matter pricing

Dry; dries; drying

Dry; drying up; going dry

Dryland farming

Dryland production

Dual-purpose breeds

Dual-purpose cattle breeds

Dual-purpose sheep breeds

Dual-purpose vegetables

Dump(ed)

Dumping

Dunnage

Durum wheat

Dust(s)

Duty(ies)

Dwarf bunt

Dwarf wheat(s)

Dystocia

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