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Glossary Entries beginning with L

Glossary of Agricultural Production, Programs and Policy

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L (Slope length factor)

LANDSAT

LD50

LDP-like payments

LOCAL TV Act

Label(s)(ed)(ing) (food)

Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (P.L. 97-79) (16 U.S.C. §§ 3371-3378)

Lactose

Lag year

Lagoon

Lamb (meat)

Lamb Meat Adjustment Assistance Program (LMAAP)

Lambs wool

Land Link

Land application

Land capability

Land characteristic(s)

Land classification

Land conservation (element)

Land conservation committee

Land evaluation and site assessment (LESA)

Land grant system

Land grant(s); land grant institution(s); land grant university(ies); land grant college(s); land grant colleges and/or universities

Land in farms

Land in orchards

Land leveling

Land management (element)

Land management; land management practice(s)

Land retirement program

Land treatment

Land trust

Land-use planning

Landowner Assistance Programs

Landrace(s); landrace cultivars

Lands substantially altered by flooding

Lanolin

Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment (LACIE)

Large CAFO

Large family farms

Laser level(ing)

Late claim application

Late postemergence

Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 (LOCAL) (P.L. 106-553)

Layby (application)

Layers; laying hens

Leachate

Leaching

Leaf account tobacco

Leaf grade(s) (cotton)

Leafy spurge

Leaker(s)

Lean

Lean yield (pork)

Leaness

Lease(s)(ing)

Leasing of quota

Least developed country(ies)

Least-cost alternative

Leave strip

Leaving money on the table

Left-hand side

Leg(s)

Legend(s)

Legume(s)

Leguminous (crops)

Length

Length uniformity

Lentils

Leptospirosis

Less (least) developed countries (LDC)

Letter(s) of credit

Leukosis

Level bushel

Level playing field

Leverage

Levy(ies)

Liberalization

Licensed exclusive variety(ies)

Lien(s)

Limit order

Limitation on Administrative Expenses

Limited coverage

Limited cross-compliance

Limited global import quota

Limited-resource farmer(s)

Linebreeding

Linecross

Lint; lint cotton

Linter cotton

Linters

Lipids

Liquid sugar

Liquid waste management system; liquid manure handling system

Liquidate; liquidation (longs)

Liquidity

Listeria; listeriosis

Lithosphere

Litter bank

Litter birth-weight

Litter weaning-weight

Litter(s)

Littoral (water) rights

Live hauler(s)

Live poultry dealer

Live weight

Live-weight pricing

Livestock

Livestock Assistance Program (LAP)

Livestock Compensation Program (LCP)

Livestock Environmental Assistance Program (LEAP)

Livestock Feed Program; Livestock Feed Assistance

Livestock Gross Margin insurance (LGM)

Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

Livestock Insurance Pilot Program

Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-78)

Livestock Risk Protection insurance (LRP)

Livestock production (system)

Livestock protection collar

Livestock revenue insurance

Livestock windbreak

Living snow fence(s)

Load averaging

Loam

Loan collateral

Loan commodity(ies)

Loan deficiency payment(s) (LDP)

Loan forbearance

Loan forfeiture

Loan guarantee(s)

Loan identified for cancellation

Loan maturity (nonrecourse loans)

Loan origination fee (soybeans)

Loan participation

Loan peanuts

Loan preservation

Loan program

Loan rate(s)

Loan repayment rate

Loan restructuring

Loan service program

Loan servicing

Loan settlement

Loan term(s)

Loan to (asset) value; loan to AV (LTV)

Loan(s)

Loan-eligible commodities

Lobbyist(s)

Local currency sale

Local television (broadcast signal) loan guarantee (program)

Location value (milk)

Lock-in

Locoweed

Loess

London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)

Long grain (rice)

Long liquidation

Long run (costs)

Long ton

Long yearling

Long(s)

Long-term market development (FAS)

Loss (eggs)

Loss Adjustment Manual (LAM)

Loss ratio

Lot

Low income, food deficit country (LIFDC)

Low intensity animal production

Low-flow irrigation

Low-income country(ies)

Low-input sustainable agriculture (LISA)

Low-sales farms

Low-temperature, long-time pasteurization (LTLT)

Lowest Observable (Adverse) Effect Level (LOEL/LOAEL)

Luster

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