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Refers to foods that may not be sold in competition with the school lunch and breakfast programs. These are foods that USDA has determined contain little if any nutritional value. For example, sugar candy, soda pop without fruit juices, and chewing gum are considered to be foods of minimal nutritional value. Candy containing nuts or chocolate is considered to have some nutritional value.
Industry:Agriculture
Un nivel máximo de producción de maní establecido por el Secretario de agricultura antes del 15 de diciembre de cada año, limita la cantidad de cacahuetes que los productores pueden vender para consumo interno. La cuota nacional peso debería fijarse en un nivel igual a la cantidad de maní en toneladas, que el Secretario estima dedicará en cada campaña de comercialización para comestibles nacionales, semilla y usos relacionados. En las dos últimas campañas, el Secretario efectivamente mantiene producción baja con el resultado neto de los titulares de cuotas haciendo más por tonelada a expensas de los consumidores pagan más por tonelada de cacahuetes.
Industry:Agriculture
In the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, countries are obliged to provide minimum levels of imports for products subject to tariffication. Access is assured by tariff-rate quotas.
Industry:Agriculture
Comúnmente conocida como el NRI, este programa otorga donativos a los científicos en laboratorios públicos y privados para la investigación agrícola básica y aplicada en áreas prioritarias como señalado en el título de la investigación del hecho acto de 1990. Becas son otorgadas competitivamente a través de un proceso de revisión por pares.
Industry:Agriculture
The minimum soil manipulation necessary for crop production. Conservation tillage, reduced tillage, and no-till farming are related terms.
Industry:Agriculture
Crops that may be high in value but that are not widely grown. Many fruits, vegetables, and tree nuts come under this definition. The IR-4 program is one publicly funded program to help producers of minor crops with their unique problems.
Industry:Agriculture
Oilseed crops other than soybeans and peanuts; usually a reference to the other oilseeds eligible for marketing assistance loans under the FAIR Act of 1996 (sunflower seed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, mustard seed, and flaxseed).
Industry:Agriculture
A system whereby the adverse impacts of an activity on the environment are minimized or cancelled by requiring the party to limit the action or replace the resources affected; the term is commonly used in connection with §404 of the Clean Water Act to require parties who drain wetlands to mitigate by constructing or restoring wetlands of equal size somewhere else on the property. The 1990 farm bill amends swampbuster to provide for mitigation.
Industry:Agriculture
A term meaning a large set of regulations that some have used to describe the extensive new rules issued by USDA in July 1996 that are aimed at controlling pathogens in meat and poultry products, including mandatory hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) plans.
Industry:Agriculture
An agreement between federal agencies, or divisions/units within an agency or department, or between federal and state agencies, which delineate tasks, jurisdiction, standard operating procedures or other matters which the agencies or units are duly authorized and directed to conduct. Sometimes referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Industry:Agriculture
