- Industry: Government
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These contracts specify who supplies the production inputs, the quality and quantity of the commodity to be produced, and the compensation for the producer. Under some livestock production contracts, the farmer is paid to provide housing and care for the animals until they are ready for market, but the contractor actually owns the animals. In 1997, according to the USDA, about 70% of the value of poultry production was under production contracts, 33% of hogs, and 14% of cattle. See marketing contract.
Industry:Agriculture
Any government program or policy intended to limit production. These have included acreage reduction, set-asides and diverted acreage.
Industry:Agriculture
Lending groups, owned by their farmer-borrowers, that provide short and intermediate-tem loans for up to 10 years from funds obtained from investors in money markets. These associations are an integral part of the Farm Credit System.
Industry:Agriculture
The amount that could be produced within the next season if all the resources currently available were fully employed using the best available technology. Productive capacity increases whenever the available resources increase or the production of those resources increases.
Industry:Agriculture
The relationship between the quantity of inputs (land, labor, tractors, feed, etc.) employed and the quantity of output produced. An increase in productivity means that more outputs can be produced from the same inputs or that the same outputs are produced with fewer inputs. Both single-factor and multifactor indexes are used to measure productivity. Single-factor productivity indexes measure the output per unit of one input at the same time other inputs may be changing. Multifactor productivity indexes consider all productive resources as a whole, netting out the effects of substitution among inputs. Crop yield per acre, output per work hour, and livestock production per breeding animal are all single-factor productivity indicators. The Total Farm Output per Unit of Input Index is a multifactor measure.
Industry:Agriculture
The number of bushels (or pounds or hundredweight) per acre that, based on current weather estimates and other factors, USDA analysts estimate farmers will harvest.
Industry:Agriculture
Puentes citoplasmáticos entre células vecinas en los tejidos vegetales.
Industry:Agriculture
Cualquier Extracromosómica hereditario determinante. Los plásmidos son auto-Replicantes moléculas circulares de ADN que se encuentra en una variedad de archaeal, bacterias, hongo, algas y especies de plantas.
Industry:Agriculture
Un aminoazúcar que se une a un lípido en la capa externa de bacterias y puede aumentar la resistencia de las bacterias a los antibióticos.
Industry:Agriculture
Plantas acuáticas que flotan en la superficie del agua y no son sus raíces en el suelo.
Industry:Agriculture
