- Industry: Government
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Un grand entrepôt qui utilise des convoyeurs verticaux à soulever ou à élever des grains, généralement propriété privée ou par une coopérative agricole, où le grain est stocké avant la commercialisation. L'ascenseur de terme se réfère souvent à toute installation de stockage de céréales, même si le grain n'est pas élevé. Le silo est où un agriculteur livre grain ; un silo terminal est une installation de transbordement majeur ; alors qu'un ascenseur d'exportation est dans une installation portuaire.
Industry:Agriculture
A government-ordered prohibition or limitation on trade with another country. Under an embargo, all trade, or selected goods and services, may be restricted. The Food Security Act of 1985 states that U.S. policy is: (1) to foster and encourage agricultural exports, (2) not to restrict or limit such exports except under the most compelling circumstances, (3) that any prohibition or limitation on such exports should be imposed only when the President declares a national emergency under the Export Administration Act, and (4) that contracts to export agricultural commodities and products agreed upon before any prohibition or limitation should not be abrogated. Whenever commercial export sales of an agricultural commodity are suspended for reasons of short supply, but to a country with which the United States continues commercial trade, the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 requires USDA to set the commodity price support loan rate at 90% of the parity price. The Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 contains contract sanctity provisions that place constraints on the embargo of agricultural commodities from the United States. The 1990 Act also: (1) provides for agricultural embargo protection that, if certain conditions are met, compensates producers with payments if the President suspends or restricts exports of a commodity for national security or foreign policy reasons, and (2) requires USDA to develop plans to alleviate the adverse effects of embargoes if imposed. The FAIR Act of 1996 requires USDA to compensate producers of a commodity, or commodities, if the U.S. government imposes an export embargo on any country for national security or foreign policy reasons, and if no other country joins the U.S. embargo within 90 days. Compensation may take the form of payments to producers or funds made available to promote agricultural exports or food aid.
Industry:Agriculture
Rebaptisé en 1997 le programme de Services de la faune (WS), c'est un effort Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service à protéger l'agriculture, les ressources naturelles, les biens ou les espèces en péril des effets non désirés et potentiellement dangereux d'espèces sauvages, notamment des prédateurs. ADC travaille également pour éviter tout risque de collision de la faune/avion dans les aéroports civils et militaires.
Industry:Agriculture
Drugs intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals. The Food and Drug Administration has the broad mandate under the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act to assure the safety and effectiveness of animal drugs and their use in all animals, including farm animals. Before FDA formally approves an animal drug, the sponsor or manufacturer of the drug must show in its premarket approval application that the drug is "safe and effective" in scientific testing. Such testing data, included with the application, must demonstrate a methodology to detect and measure any residue left in edible animal products and show that edible animal products when ready-to-eat are free from unsafe residues. Farmers and veterinarians treating farm animals must adhere to any restrictions about withdrawal times, or any warning or use constraints stated on the drug label.
Industry:Agriculture
Installations où les animaux sont gardés et soulevées en cas confinés ; l'alimentation est apportée aux animaux. Le General Accounting Office estime qu'il y a 450 000 opérations de ce type dans tout le pays. S'il est suffisamment élevé, ces installations sont désignées comme des aliments concentrés des opérations et ils deviennent soumis à des exigences réglementaires pour prévenir la pollution. USDA et l'Environmental Protection Agency a publié une stratégie nationale unifiée pour Animal Feeding opérations le 9 mars 1999. L'objectif est de réduire au minimum la pollution de l'eau provenant des installations de confinement et d'épandage de fumier grâce à l'adoption de plans de gestion des éléments nutritifs globale in situ.
Industry:Agriculture
Currently, the private marketing system, assisted by computerization of records, generally can trace products back to their original suppliers, although not necessarily all the way to the farm. It has been suggested that a type of traceback program might be formalized to better monitor and contain outbreaks of food borne illness. USDA has called "animal identification" an important element of any traceback system. Livestock producers already frequently identify their animals using back-tags, ear tags, tatoos, and other devices, so that incorporating animal identification into a traceback program might not be difficult. While few dispute the usefulness of animal identification and traceback systems in general, whether they should be made regulatory requirements, or remain voluntary, is a contentious issue.
Industry:Agriculture
Protéine utilisée en fourrage qui est dérivé de meatpacking ou usines d'équarrissage, excédentaire lait ou produits laitiers et sources marines.
Industry:Agriculture
Une mesure standard, selon les besoins alimentaires, utilisés pour combiner les différentes classes de bétail selon taille, poids, âge et l'usage. Pour les terres fédérales, une unité animale représente une vache adulte, bull, orienter, génisse, cheval, mulet, ou cinq moutons ou cinq chèvres, partout de 6 mois.
Industry:Agriculture
Un mois d'unité animale (AUM) est la quantité de fourrage nécessaire pour soutenir une unité animale, ou son équivalent, pour un mois. Frais de pâturages pour les terres fédérales sont facturés par unité animale ou tête-mois.
Industry:Agriculture
This Act is P.L. 89-544 (August 24, 1966) which was enacted to curb the theft and mistreatment of dogs and cats for experimental and research purposes. The principal federal animal protection law, it has been amended several times to address specific concerns such as the shipping of pets on public transportation, dog fighting, and using other warm-blooded animals in biomedical experiments. Although administered by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the law has always excluded farm animals from its coverage. Generally, USDA is authorized to "promulgate standards to govern the humane handling, care, treatment, and practices in experimental procedures to ensure that animal pain and distress are minimized...." The law excludes from the definition of animal "...horses not used for research purposes and other farm animals, such as, but not limited to livestock or poultry, used or intended for use as food or fiber, or livestock or poultry used or intended for use for improving animal nutrition, breeding, management, or production efficiency, or for improving the quality of food or fiber." Animal welfare has become more controversial in recent years as certain animal protection groups have argued for more extensive legal protections for animals. Some groups believe that any human uses of animals are inhumane, unethical and/or immoral, and should be prohibited. Among those who accept the premise that humans should and will use animals for food and other necessities, the debate over the meaning of animal welfare revolves around the most appropriate methods for taking care of animals, including farm animals. For example, legislation has been proposed (but not enacted) in recent years that would intervene in animal production operations by regulating confinement facilities; determining the diets of veal calves; specifying how poultry must be slaughtered; and prohibiting dealers from handling nonambulatory (downer) livestock unless they are humanely killed.
Industry:Agriculture
