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Glossary of Agricultural Production, Programs and Policy

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MERCOSUR

Maastrict Treaty

Macronutrient(s)

Mad cow disease

Madigan Award

Mailbox price (dairy)

Mainland allotments (sugar)

Mainland state(s)

Major crops

Major land resource area (MLRA)

Major sugar countries

Make allowance

Making Continuing Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 1987, and for Other Purposes (P.L. 99-591)

Malt

Man day

Managed account

Managed grazing

Managed harvest (timber)

Management-intensive grazing

Mandatory entry

Mandatory grant(s)

Mandatory inspection (grain)

Mandatory program(s)

Mandatory spending

Mandatory spending (agriculture)

Mandatory supply control(s)

Manufactured class

Manufactured dairy product(s)

Manufactured milk products

Manufacturing (grade) milk

Manure storage facility

Marbling

Mare

Marek's disease

Margin

Margin (deposit)

Margin call(s)

Mariculture

Marine leg

Mark

Market Access Program (MAP)

Market Development Cooperator Program

Market Development and Expansion program

Market News (Service)

Market Promotion Program (MPP)

Market access

Market administrator (milk)

Market agency(ies)

Market allocation

Market basket of farm foods

Market economy

Market gain

Market hog(s)

Market livestock

Market loan repayment (provision) (MLR)

Market loss (assistance) payments

Market order

Market price(s)

Market risk

Market service association (bargaining association)

Market share

Market shed

Market support tools

Market viability grants

Market(s)

Market-oriented farm policy

Marketing

Marketing Orders and Agreements

Marketing Services

Marketing agreement(s) and order(s)

Marketing agreements

Marketing allotment(s) (sugar)

Marketing and Regulatory Programs

Marketing area

Marketing assessment(s)

Marketing assistance loan(s)

Marketing associations (cotton)

Marketing associations (peanuts)

Marketing associations (tobacco)

Marketing board

Marketing cards (peanuts)

Marketing cards (tobacco)

Marketing certificates

Marketing contract(s)

Marketing loan gain(s) (MLG)

Marketing loan program

Marketing loan repayment (provision) (MLR)

Marketing loan repayment rate

Marketing loan(s)

Marketing loss (assistance) payments

Marketing order(s)

Marketing quota(s)

Marketing season

Marketing spread

Marketing type (bargaining association)

Marketing year(s)

Marketwide pool(ing)

Marking

Maryland tobacco

Mast

Master Settlement Agreement (MSA)

Mastitis

Material Transfer Agreements (MTA)

Material harm

Mature dairy animal

Mature timber

Maturity; mature(d)

Maximum deficiency payments

Maximum economic yield

Maximum flex acres (acreage); maximum flexible acres (acreage) (MFA)

Maximum payment acres

Maximum permitted acres

Maximum protection level

Maximum tolerated dose (MTD)

McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program

McIntire-Stennis (funds)

McSweeney-McNary Forest Research Act of 1928 (P.L. 70-466)

Meandering line

Means test(ing)

Meat

Meat and poultry inspection

Meat broker

Meat byproducts

Meat food product(s)

Meat import law

Mechanical harvester

Mechanical tenderization

Mechanically separated (meat) (MS)

Mechanically separated poultry

Mediation

Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly)

Medium CAFO

Medium grain (rice)

Mega-reg

Melaleuca

Member schedule

Merchant Marine Act of 1920

Merchant(s) (cotton)

Mesquite

Metabolites

Methane

Methanol

Methyl Bromide Transitions Program (MBT)

Methyl bromide

Metric ton(s)

Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)

Mickey Leland Food for Peace Act (P.L. 101-624)

Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowship

Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act (P.L. 101-624)

Microbe(s); microbial

Microbial pesticides

Microclimate

Microenterprise

Micron

Micronaire

Micronutrient fortification pilot program

Micronutrient fortification program(s)

Micronutrient(s)

Microorganisms

Middle meats

Middle-income country(ies)

Migrant agricultural worker(s)

Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) (P.L. 97-470) (29 U.S.C. §§ 1801, et seq.)

Migrant farmworker(s)

Migratory Bird Rule

Milk Income Loss Contract program (MILC)

Milk Production Termination Program

Milk assessments

Milk distributing plant

Milk diversion program

Milk equivalent

Milk marketed for commercial use

Milk marketing order(s)

Milk price-support program

Milk protein concentrate (MPC)

Milk protein(s)

Milk shed

Milk soil

Milk solid(s)

Milk solids-not-fat

Milkfat

Milking barn

Milking parlor

Milkstone

Mill(ed)(ing)

Milled rice

Miller(s)

Millet

Millfeed

Milling quality

Milling yield (rice)

Milo

Mini-column

Mini-contracts

Mini-farming

Minimal beneficial interest

Minimal effect(s)

Minimum access (tariff quotas)

Minimum import price (MIP)

Minimum price contracts

Minimum pricing (dairy)

Minimum till(age)

Ministerial Conference

Minnesota-Wisconsin (M-W) price

Minor (animal) species

Minor crops

Minor oilseeds

Minor vegetables

Minor-use

Minor-use and minor species (MUMS)

Minor-use animal drugs

Minor-use animal drugs program

Minor-use crops

Minor-use pesticides

Misbranded (foods)

Mismatched funds

Mission area(s)

Mississippi Christmas tree

Mites

Miticides

Mitigation ordinance

Mitigation; mitigate; mitigating

Mixed (milled) rice

Mixed corn

Mixed cropping

Mixed grain

Mixed grazing

Mixed pigs

Mixed ration

Mixed rough rice

Mixed soybeans

Mixed wheat

Mixed wood forest

Mob grazing

Module builder

Module(s) (cotton)

Mohair

Mohair recourse loan program

Moisture content

Molasses

Molluscicides

Molt(ed)(ing)

Monetary policy

Monetization

Monitor

Monoculture

Monounsaturated; monounsaturated fatty acid(s)

Moratorium

Mormon cricket

Morrill Act of 1862

Morrill Act of 1890

Mosaic

Most probable producing ability (MPPA)

Most-favored nation (MFN)

Mote bales

Mote ginning

Mote(s) (cotton)

Mover

Mower/conditioner

Muck

Mulch(es)(ing)

Mulch-till(age)

Multi-fiber Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles (MFA)

Multicultural Scholars Program

Multifamily rural rental guarantee loan program

Multijurisdictional regional planning organizations grants

Multilateral agreement(s)

Multilateral trade negotiations (MTN)

Multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) agreements and arrangements

Multiline

Multinational corporation(s) (MNC)

Multiperil

Multiperil crop insurance (MPCI)

Multiple basing points

Multiple planting(s)

Multiple processor state(s) (sugar)

Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (P.L. 86-517) (16 U.S.C. §§ 528-531)

Multiple-benefit exclusion

Multiple-component pricing

Multiple-pricing system(s)

Multiple-use land(s)

Multiple-use(s) (forestry)

Multistory cropping

Mummies

Mung beans

Muscadine

Muscle biologist

Muscle food(s)

Muscle meat

Muscle(s)

Muscling; muscled

Mushrooms

Mustard seed

Mutagen

Mutagenicity

Mutton

Mutual Self Help Housing program

Mutual Self-Help Technical Assistance grants

MyDirdyHobby

MyDirdyHobby 2

Mycologist

Mycotoxicoses

Mycotoxin(s)

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