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The application of compost or fertilizer ontop of the soil during plant growth.
Industry:Agriculture
A chronic disease of young ruminants in which the abomasum is twisted to the left or to the right of its normal position. Most displacements are detectable on the left side in dairy cattle and are characterized by a distended abomasum trapped under the rumen.
Industry:Agriculture
Accumulation of purulent material in tissues, organs, or circumscribed spaces, usually associated with signs of infection.
Industry:Agriculture
Accumulation of purulent material in tissues, organs, or circumscribed spaces, usually associated with signs of infection.
Industry:Agriculture
Social bees belonging to the subfamily Meliponinae which defend nests by biting, not stinging. Species include important pollinators.
Industry:Agriculture
Social bees belonging to the subfamily Meliponinae which defend nests by biting, not stinging. Species include important pollinators.
Industry:Agriculture
A farm’s actual cash receipts and expenses in a given year, regardless of the year the goods sold were produced. In general, it serves as an indicator of the short-term financial condition of agricultural producers and their ability to pay household expenses, farm operating expenses, loan payments, and to purchase capital assets such as machinery. It consists of cash receipts from farm marketings of crop and livestock products, other cash income from such farm-related sources as machine hire, custom work and farm recreational activities, and direct government payments, less production expenses paid in cash. It excludes the non-monetary components of gross farm income and net farm income.
Industry:Agriculture
As relates to the food stamp program, net monthly income is an amount calculated for each food stamp household that, together with its size, effectively determines its food stamp benefit. It is calculated by reducing the household’s total cash monthly income by a series of deductions. The lower a household’s net income, the larger its food stamp benefit.
Industry:Agriculture
A provision requiring that a price support program be operated at no cost to the federal government. The No-Net-Cost Tobacco Act of 1982 required the participants in the 1982 and subsequent year tobacco programs to pay an assessment to cover potential losses in operating the tobacco price support program. The Food Security Act of 1985 required that USDA operate the sugar program at no cost. This provision applied through the 1996 crop year for the sugar crops, and was repealed by the FAIR Act of 1996. The 1996 changes to the peanut program are designed to ensure that it also operates at no cost.
Industry:Agriculture
includes all income from nonfarm sources (excluding money earned from working for other farmers) received by farm operator households.
Industry:Agriculture
