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Glossary Entries beginning with P

Glossary of Agricultural Production, Programs and Policy

4th Edition

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P (support practice factor)

P.L. 480

P.L. 566

PIK and roll

PIK certificates

Pack

Packer (livestock)

Packer concentration

Packer trust

Packer-owned cattle

Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (P.L.67-51) (7 U.S.C. §§ 181 et seq.)

Packers and Stockyards Administration (P&S)

Packers and Stockyards program (P&S; P&SP)

Packing house

Packing plant

Packing shed

Paddock(s)

Paddy kernels

Paddy rice

Paid diversion program

Paid land diversion (PLD)

Palatability, palatable

Pale, soft, exudative (PSE)

Pale, soft, watery (PSW)

Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)

Pampas grass

Panicle

Parasitoid

Parasitologist

Parastatal

Paratill (paraplow)

Parboiled rice

Parcel

Parent tree

Parity

Parity Index

Parity price(s)

Parity ratio

Partial county yield average

Partial payment(s)

Partially regulated distribution plant

Participation loan

Particle drift

Partner(s); partner institution(s); partnership

Partners in Quality (PIQ)

Partnerships for high-value agricultural product quality research

Parturition

Pasteurization; pasteurizing; pasteurized

Pasture Flood Compensation program

Pasture Recovery Program (PRP)

Pasture and hutch (production system)

Pasture management

Pasture rotation

Pasture(d) poultry

Pasture; pastureland; pasture land

Pastureland

Pathogen(s); pathogenic

Pathologist

Patronage

Patronage dividend(s)

Patronage refund(s)

Patrons of Husbandry

Pay weight

Payment acres (acreage)

Payment cap(s)

Payment formula

Payment in Lieu of Taxes

Payment limitation(s); payment limit(s)

Payment quantity

Payment rate

Payment yield

Payment-in-kind (PIK)

Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments

Payments to 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee University

Payments to Counties for National Grasslands (7 U.S.C. § 1012)

Payments to States and Possessions

Peace Clause

Peanut (price-support) program

Peanut Standards Board

Peanut commodity card

Peanut marketing assessment(s)

Peanut marketing associations

Peanut meal

Peanut poundage quota

Peanut quota

Peanut sheller

Pedology

Peer review(ed)

Peer reviewer(s)

Pellet mill

Pelleting (steam)

Pencil shrink(age)

Penetrative stunning device(s)

Per-acre yield goal (sugar)

Percent calf crop

Percentage share lease

Percolation

Perennial stream

Perennial(s) (crop)

Performance-Based Inspection System (PBIS)

Peril point

Perique

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 (PACA) (7 U.S.C. §§ 499a-499t)

Perishable agricultural commodity(ies)

Perishable manufactured dairy products

Permaculture

Permanent capital

Permanent capital ratio

Permanent legislation; permanent law

Permanent pasture

Permanent vegetative cover

Permeability

Permeate

Permissive inspection (grain)

Permit nutrient plan (PNP)

Permitted acres (acreage)

Permitted crop(s)

Permitted entities

Persistent bioaccumulative and toxic (chemicals) (PBT)

Persistent pesticides

Person(s)

Pervasive poverty

Pest Management Center(s) (PMC)

Pest Management program

Pest control

Pest management

Pest(s)

Pesticide Data Program (PDP)

Pesticide Impact Assessment (PIA)

Pesticide Recordkeeping Program

Pesticide chemical

Pesticide clearance

Pesticide degradate(s)

Pesticide drift

Pesticide recordkeeping

Pesticide residue(s)

Pesticide resistance

Pesticide tolerance level(s)

Pesticide(s)

Pfiesteria (piscicida)

Phage typing

Phage(s)

Phase

Phase I (tobacco)

Phase II (tobacco)

Phenology

Phenotype(s)

Phenotypic correlations

Phenoxy-type herbicides

Pheromone(s)

Pheromone(s) trap

Phosphorus (P)

Phylloxera

Physiologist

Phytochemical(s)

Phytoestrogens

Phytopathogenic

Phytosanitary

Phytosanitary certificate

Phytosanitary measure

Phytosanitary procedure

Phytosanitary regulation

Phytotoxic

Pick(ed)(ing)

Picker (wool)

Picker; picker system; picker harvester (cotton)

Picking (wool)

Pierce's Disease

Pigford v. Glickman

Pigford v. Veneman

Pilot Program for Enrollment of Wetland and Buffer Acreage in the Conservation Reserve

Pine shoot beetle (PSB)

Pipeline stocks

Plan of insurance

Plant

Plant Genome Mapping Program

Plant Protection Act (P.L. 106-224) (7 U.S.C. §§ 7701-7772)

Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)

Plant Quarantine Act (7 U.S.C. §§ 151-167)

Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) (P.L. 91-577)

Plant germplasm

Plant growth regulator(s)

Plant material centers

Plant pest(s)

Plant pesticides

Plant product(s)

Plant quarantine

Plantation (forest)

Planted acreage

Planting flexibility

Plastic cheese; plastic curd

Plot

Plow pan

Plug

Plum pox virus

Plurilateral agreement(s)

Point sampling (scouting)

Point source(s); point source pollution (PSP)

Polarimeter

Polarization (pol)

Policy research center(s)

Political union

Polled

Pollination; pollinate(d)

Pollutant(s)

Poly pipe

Polyculture; polycultural

Polyhydric Alcohol Program

Polyhydric alcohol (polyol) (polyalcohol)

Polymers

Polynuclear (polycyclic) aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)

Polyunsaturated; polyunsaturated fatty acid(s)

Pomology

Pond(s)

Pool milk

Pool plant (milk)

Pool value (dairy)

Pool(s)(ing)(ed)

Pop-up fertilizer(s)

Porcine

Porcine Stress Syndrome (PSS)

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)

Porcine somatotropin (pST)

Pork bellies

Port shopping

Portable grain bin

Position

Positive adjustment

Posted county price (PCP)

Postemergence

Postemergence (directed)

Postemergence over the top

Postharvest operations; post-harvest; post production

Postmortem (inspection)

Potable (water)

Potable reuse

Potassium (K)

Potentially hazardous food

Pothole(s) (prairie)

Potted flowering plants

Poult

Poultry

Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957 (P.L. 85-172) (21 USC §§ 451 et seq.)

Poultry byproduct meal

Poultry cut-up

Poultry food product

Poultry grower

Poultry growing arrangement

Poultry inspection

Poultry meat

Poultry processing

Poultry tender

Poultry tenderloin

Poultry trust

Poundage quota(s)

Powder(s)(ed)

Power take-off (PTO)

Practical to replant

Prairie potholes

Pre-emergence

Pre-emergence application

Pre-shipment applications

Prebiotics

Precautionary principle

Preceding year (tobacco)

Precision agriculture (grants)

Precision agriculture technologies

Precision farming; precision agriculture

Precision land forming

Preclearance quarantine inspection(s)

Preconditioning

Precooling

Predominantly eligible

Preferences

Preferential (trade) agreement

Preferential assessment(s)

Preferred certified lenders program

Preferred lender program (PLP)

Preharvest; preharvest food safety

Preliminary farm marketing quota (tobacco)

Premium(s)

Premix(es)

Preparation

Prepared (meat)

Preplant incorporated

Preponderance of the evidence

Prepotency

Prescribed burning

Prescribed grazing

Prescription farming

Preservation Loan Servicing Program

President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production While Protecting Public Health

Prevailing world market price

Prevailing world market price (cotton)

Prevailing world market price (rice)

Prevented (from) planting; prevented from being planted (PP)

Prevented planting disaster payments

Preweaning gain

Price discovery

Price discrimination

Price driver (dairy)

Price election

Price index

Price limit

Price mover

Price pooling

Price rally

Price reaction

Price stabilization cooperative(s)

Price-later contract

Price-support level

Price-support loan rate

Price-support loan(s)

Price-support program(s)

Price-support(s)

Prices-Paid Index

Prices-Received Index

Pricing grid(s)

Prickly pear

Primal cuts

Primary agriculture

Primary loan service program

Primary servicing

Prime farmland; prime

Priming

Principal outstanding

Prion

Prion disease

Prior appropriation doctrine

Prior conversion; prior converted (wetland) (PC)

Prior debt forgiveness

Prior slaughter week

Priority area(s) (conservation)

Private activity bond(s)

Private agribusiness sector

Private applicator(s)

Private grazing land conservation assistance

Private grazing land enterprises

Private grazing land(s)

Private voluntary organization (PVO)

Prizing

Probiotics

Process(es)(ed)(ing)

Processed Products Inspection Improvement Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-641) (21 U.S.C. §§ 601 et seq.)

Processed foods

Processed meats

Processing aid

Processing inputs

Processing vegetables

Processor assurances (sugar)

Processor(s)

Processor-Funded Milk Promotion Program

Produce Marketing Association (PMA)

Producer agreement(s)

Producer allotments

Producer assessment(s)

Producer milk

Producer option payment(s) (POP)

Producer price differential (PPD)

Producer subsidy equivalents (PSE)

Producer(s)

Producer-handler

Producer-settlement fund (dairy)

Product-based pricing

Production Credit Associations (PCA)

Production agriculture

Production contract(s)

Production control (programs)

Production expenses

Production flexibility contract payment(s)

Production flexibility contract(s) (PFC)

Production flexibility payment(s)

Production guarantee

Production management

Production risk

Production sequence (wool)

Productive capacity

Productivity

Progeny

Progeny records

Progeny testing

Program benefits

Program commodity(ies)

Program crop(s)

Program payments

Program year(s)

Program yield(s)

Program(s)

Program(s) (agricultural)

Prohibited substance (organic)

Prohibition on continuous coverage

Projected county yield

Projected farm yield

Projected national yield

Projected price

Projected state yield

Projected yield

Promotion program(s)

Proportional shares (peanuts)

Proportionate share states (sugar)

Proportionate share(s) (sugar)

Prorate(s)

Protected bases (peanuts)

Protection level

Protectionism; protectionist

Protein at the farm

Protein price(ing)

Protein supplement

Protein(s)

Proven yield(s)

Provenance

Pseudocereal(s)

Pseudorabies (PRV)

Pseudorabies Eradication Program

Public (seed) varieties

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-188)

Public Law 480 (P.L. 480)

Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 (PRIA) (P.L 95 514) (43 U.S.C. §§1901-1908)

Public elevator(s)

Public health pesticide

Public land(s)

Public rangelands

Public right to know

Public tender market

Public warehouse(s)

Puke

Pulled wool

Pullet(s)

Pulp

Pulp log

Pulpwood

Pulses

Purchase agreement(s); purchases

Purchase of agricultural conservation easements (PACE)

Purchase of development rights (PDR)

Purchase price(s)

Purchased (inventory)

Purchasing hedge

Purebred(s)

Purity (of class)

Purveyor

Put-and-take stocking

Put; put option(s)

Pyrethroids

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