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Glossary Entries beginning with S

Glossary of Agricultural Production, Programs and Policy

4th Edition

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SMV

Saccharimeter

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) (P.L. 93-523)

Safe-moisture level

Safeguards

Safened seed

Safety net

Safflower; safflowerseed

Sale barn

Sales class(es)

Sales closing date(s)

Saline soil

Salmonella enteritidis (SE)

Salmonella, salmonellosis

Salt-tolerant vegetation

Saltwater intrusion

Salvage cattle

Salvage cutting

Salvage sale

Sample grade(s)

Sample(s); sampling

Sample-lot inspection service

Sampler

Sandy loam

Sanitary and phytosanitary measures

Saplings

Saturated; saturated fat; saturated fatty acid(s)

Saved seed(s)

Saw gin

Saw logs; sawlogs

Sawtimber

Scab

Scabies

Scale ticket

Scaling

Scarification

Schedule A (federally excepted) (appointment)

Scheme or device

School Breakfast Program (SBP)

School Lunch Program

Science and Education Resources Development (SERD)

Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)

Scientist year (SY)

Scorecard lending

Scour erosion

Scour(ed)(ing)

Scout(ing)

Scrap (tobacco)

Scrap(ped)(ping)

Scrape and haul system

Scrapie

Screenings

Screwworm

Scrotal circumference

Seasonal agricultural worker(s)

Seasonal residue management

Second AMTA (payment)

Second Morrill Act of 1890

Second crop

Second heads

Second pick(ing)

Secondary (resale) markets for agricultural loans

Secondary agriculture

Secondary and Two-Year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants Program (SPEC)

Secondary market

Section

Section 15 lands

Section 18

Section 201

Section 203

Section 22

Section 2501 (program) (projects)

Section 3 lands

Section 301

Section 32

Section 404

Section 416(b)

Section 502

Section 504

Section 514

Section 515

Section 516

Section 521

Section 523

Section 524

Section 533

Section 538

Section 7 consultations

Secured party

Security agreement

Security interest

Sediment(s)

Seed bank

Seed cleaning

Seed cotton

Seed drill

Seed germination test

Seed piracy

Seed protectant

Seed sizing

Seed treatment(s)

Seedbed

Seedling(s)

Seedstock (operation)

Seedstock breeders

Segregation I, II, III (peanuts)

Select harvest

Selection

Selection differential (reach)

Selection index

Selective cutting

Selective embargo

Selective pesticide (herbicide)

Self-help housing grants

Self-help housing land development loans

Self-pollinated (pollination)

Self-regulatory organization

Selling hedge

Semolina

Senior Scientific Research Service (SSRS)

Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP)

Sensitive species

Separate person(s)

Separately eligible

Sequential cropping

Sequester

Sequestration

Series

Serious prejudice

Serotype

Serotyping

Service

Sesame; sesame seed

Set stocking

Set-aside(s)

Settle

Settlement price(s)

Share lease

Share(d)(ing) in the risk of production

Sharecropper

Sharecropper protection

Shared appreciation agreement (SAA)

Shear(ed)(ing)

Sheep Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1994 (Sheep Act) (P.L. 103-407)

Sheep breeds

Sheet erosion

Shelf-stable (products)

Shell-egg handlers

Sheller(s) (peanuts)

Shelling plant (peanuts); shelled

Shelterbelt(s)

Shigellosis

Shipping holiday(s)

Shoat

Shock

Shock analysis

Shorn

Short

Short grain (rice)

Short rotation woody crop (SRWC)

Short selling

Short the basis

Short ton(s)

Short yearling

Short-Term Export Credit Guarantee Program

Show animal(s)

Show list

Shrink; shrink factor

Shrinkage

Shrinkage and overage (dairy)

Shrubland

Sibs

Sign(ing)(ed)-up

Significant contribution

Silage

Silt

Siltation

Silviculture; silvacultural

Silvipastoral; silvopastoral

Similar entity

Single-blind experiment

Single-family direct and guaranteed housing loans

Sinkhole(s)

Sire(s)

Site management plan

Site-specific farming (SSF)

Sixteen contiguous Western states

Skidding

Skim milk; skimmilk; skimmed milk

Skip-row

Skirting

Slash

Slash and burn cultivation

Slaughter cattle

Slippage

Slit seeding

Slope

Slope length (factor) (L)

Small (farmer and rancher)

Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)

Small Farm Coordinators

Small Farm Council

Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Program

Small Hog Operation Payment Program (SHOP)

Small Watershed Rehabilitation Program

Small and emerging private business enterprise

Small farm(s)

Small farms policy(ies) (USDA)

Small grain(s)

Smaller enterprise

Smart cards (peanuts)

Smith-Doxey classification

Smith-Lever 3(b&c) (funds)

Smith-Lever 3(d) (funds)

Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. §§ 341 et seq.)

Smith-Lever funds

Smut

Snapping

Snapshot

Snow fence(s)

Snow survey

Social forestry

Socially disadvantaged (SDA)

Socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers (loans)

Sodbuster

Soft

Soft currency

Soft loan

Soft products

Soft red winter wheat

Soft wheat

Softwood(s)

Soil Bank

Soil Bank Act of 1956 (P.L. 84-540)

Soil Bank Program

Soil Conservation District

Soil Conservation Service (SCS)

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 (P.L. 74-461)

Soil amendment

Soil and Water Conservation Assistance (SWCA)

Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977 (16 U.S.C. §§ 2001-2009)

Soil and water conservation district (SWCD)

Soil and water loan(s)

Soil application

Soil chemical properties

Soil classes (classification)

Soil compaction

Soil conditioner

Soil conservation loans

Soil depth profile

Soil erodibility

Soil erodibility (factor) (K)

Soil erosion

Soil fertility

Soil health

Soil loss tolerance

Soil map(ping) unit

Soil profile

Soil quality

Soil separate(s)

Soil series

Soil solarization

Soil sterilant

Soil structure

Soil survey

Soil taxonomy

Soil testing

Soil texture

Soil tilth

Soil type

Soil(s)

Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SWANCC) (531 U.S. 159 (2001))

Solid Waste Management grants

Solids (milk)

Solids-not-fat (SNF)

Somatic cell adjustment (rate)

Somatic cell count (SCC)

Somatic cell(s) (dairy)

Soring; sore(d)

Soundness

Soup Kitchen/Food Bank Program (SK/FB)

Source verification

Southern Dairy Compact

Sow

Soy diesel

Soy ink

Soybean classes

Soybean loan origination fee

Special 301

Special Apple Loan Program

Special Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

Special Milk Program (SMP)

Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

Special and differential treatment (S&D)

Special competitive provisions (extra-long stable cotton) (7 U.S.C. § 7236a)

Special grade(s)

Special grant(s)

Special grazing lease(s)

Special grazing permit(s) or grazing lease(s)

Special import quota

Special mention

Special quota

Special research grant(s)

Specialties

Specialty (high-value) crops

Specialty sugar

Specialty vegetables

Species

Specific Cooperative Agreement

Specific tariff

Specified peril(s) insurance

Specified risk material(s) (SRM)

Speculative bubble

Speculator(s)

Spelt

Spent hen

Spinning

Split application

Split operation

Splits (soybeans)

Sport fish

Spot

Spot commodity

Spot market

Spot price

Spotted wilted virus

Spray drift

Spray irrigation

Sprayfield

Spread

Spreader dike(s)

Spring wheat

Sprinkler irrigation

Square

Squeeze chute

Stabilization Corporation; Stabilization

Stabilization inventory(ies)

Stakeholder(s)

Stale seedbeds

Stalk cutting

Stalk rot

Stallion

Stanchion barn

Stand

Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA)

Standard density (SD) (cotton)

Standard pig

Standard(s)

Standard(s) (FDA)

Standard(s) of identity

Standard(s) of quality

Standardized Fat-Free Lean Index

Staple

Staple length (wool)

Starter fertilizer(s)

State Beginning Farmer and Rancher Guarantee Program

State Rural Development Councils (SRDC)

State agricultural experiment station(s) (SAES)

State and Private Forestry

State cooperative institution(s); state cooperative agency(ies)

State mark of inspection

State mediation grants

State trading

State trading enterprise (STE)

Statewides

Status date

Steagall Amendment of 1941 (P.L. 77-144)

Steam pasteurization

Steep(ing); steep extraction

Steepwater

Steer(s)

Steer-corn ratio

Stemmed; stemming

Step 1 (cotton)

Step 1 adjustment (cotton)

Step 2 (cotton)

Step 3 (cotton)

Stewardship Incentive Program (SIP)

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (P.L. 100-77)

Stock requirement

Stock(s)

Stocker cattle; stockers

Stocker fish; stockers

Stocking density

Stocking rate(s)

Stocking up

Stockpiling

Stocks-to-use (ratio)

Stockyard

Stockyard services

Stones

Stop charge

Stop order

Stop-limit order

Storable commodity(ies) (CCC)

Storable manufactured dairy products

Storage agreement(s)

Storage charges; storage costs

Storage payment(s)

Storage; store(s)(ing)(ed)

Strategic alliance(s)

Strategic farmland

Strategic grain reserve

Stratification

Straw walker

Streamside management zone (SMZ)

Strength

Stress

Strike price

Strip cropping

Strip cutting

Strip grazing

Strip-till(age)

Stripper cotton; stripper system; stripper harvester

Struck bushel

Structural change

Structural practice(s)

Structure of agriculture

Stub (soca) cotton

Stubble mulch

Student experiential learning

Stumpage

Stunt(ing)

Style

Subirrigation

Submitted-sample inspection service

Subscription farming

Subsidy(ies); subsidize(s)(d); subsidizing

Subsistence farm

Subsoil

Substandard pig

Substantial beneficial interest (SBI)

Substantial evidence

Subterminal elevator(s)

Subtherapeutic

Succession cropping

Successor-in-interest

Sucrose

Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) (soybeans)

Suffocants

Sugar (marketing) allotment(s)

Sugar (price-support) program

Sugar Association, The

Sugar Re-Export Program

Sugar Storage Facility Loan

Sugar degree(s)

Sugar for the Production of Polyhydric Alcohol Program

Sugar marketing assessment(s)

Sugar policy

Sugar syrup

Sugar-Containing Products Re-Export Program

Sugar-containing product (SCP)

Sugarbeet processor

Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)

Summer fallow

Sun Grant Initiative

Sun oil

Sun-cured tobacco

Sunflower(s); sunflowerseed

Sunflowerseed Oil Assistance Program (SOAP)

Sunflowerseed and Cottonseed Oil Assistance Programs

Super 301

Super CREP

Super dairy(ies)

Super-pool premium

Superfund

Supervised credit

Supplement (feed)

Supplemental AMTA

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2001 (P.L. 107-20)

Supplemental Appropriations Act, FY1999

Supplemental Income Assistance Program (SIAP)

Supplemental Income Payment Program

Supplemental crops

Supplemental irrigation

Supplemental loan (sugar)

Supplemental water

Supplementary imports

Supplementary payments (cotton)

Supplier Credit Guarantee Program (SCGP)

Supplier Credit Program

Supply control

Supply management

Supply plant (milk)

Support loan(s)

Support practice (factor) (P)

Support price

Support program(s)

Surface irrigation

Surface runoff

Surface storage

Surplus area(s)

Surplus(es)

Suspension

Suspension (pesticide)

Sustainable (sustained) yield

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program (SARE)

Sustainable Agriculture Technology Development and Transfer program

Sustainable Forestry Outreach Initiative

Sustainable agriculture

Sustainable farming practice(s)

Sustainable forestry

Sustainable grazing systems

Sustainable; sustainability

Swampbuster

Swampbuster bills

Sward

Swathed

Sweet corn

Sweet rice

Swine breeds

Swine contractor

Swine production contract

Swine production contract grower

Swine vesicular disease

Symbiosis

Synthetic pyrethroids

System

System of minimum prices (dairy)

Systemic

Systemic herbicide

Systems research

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