- Industry: Government
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The most widely used peanut for making peanut butter, peanut candies, bakedgoods, and snack nuts. This type of peanut is grown mainly in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma, and accounts for about 73% of the total U.S. production.
Industry:Agriculture
Animal having a stomach with four compartments (remen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum). Their digestive process is more complex than that of animals having a true stomach. Ruminants include cattle, sheep and goats, as well as deer, bison, buffalo, camels and giraffes.
Industry:Agriculture
As required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, the Forest Service makes a periodic (every 10 years) national assessment of renewable resource supplies, demands, and trends, to identify potential problems and opportunities. In response to the problems and opportunities identified in the assessment, the Forest Service prepares a periodic (every 5 years) national strategic program plan.
Industry:Agriculture
Genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant soybeans. Roundup is the trade name for glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide. Farmers planting RR soybeans pay more for the seed, must use certain herbicide application practices, and may not save and use their own seed as part of a pesticide resistance management plan. The benefits include a reduction in the number of herbicide applications, with potential savings in both chemical and labor costs.
Industry:Agriculture
A pesticide used to destroy, control, or deter mice and rats or other rodent pests from damaging food, crops, etc.
Industry:Agriculture
Pasturing system that allows short periods of heavy use, followed by a recovery period; it allows the forage to be used more fully and effectively.
Industry:Agriculture
A molecule similar to DNA that functions primarily to decode instructions for protein synthesis that are carried by genes.
Industry:Agriculture
An independent office within USDA that is responsible for the supervision of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; the administration and oversight of the federal crop insurance program and any pilot or other programs involving revenue insurance; the use of the futures contracts to manage farm risk and support income.
Industry:Agriculture
The process of deciding whether and how to manage risks. Public risk management requires consideration of legal, economic, and behavioral factors, as well as environmental and human health effects of each management alternative. Management may involve regulatory and non-regulatory responses. For example, characterizing the risk to farm workers of entering a field after application of a particular pesticide is risk assessment; promulgating reentry standards is risk management. The federal government has played an active role over the years in helping farmers manage risk. Two major risks faced by agricultural producers are production risks and price risks, and the USDA has assisted with federal crop insurance and commodity programs. The Risk Management Agency is now helping farmers utilize other risk management tools.
Industry:Agriculture
Comparison of the short- and long-term risks to the overall societal benefits of an activity, chemical use, or technology. When risks and benefits are expressed in monetary terms, this is effectively cost-benefit analysis. Both the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act direct the Environmental Protection Agency to base regulatory decisions on a risk-benefit or cost-benefit basis.
Industry:Agriculture
