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Baling
Definition:
This can refer to the process of bundling hay into round or square bales, but it is also used to refer generally to the process of harvesting hay.
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Our Ohio
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Barren land
Definition:
Lands with limited capacity to support life and having less than 5 percent vegetative cover. Vegetation, if present, is widely spaced.
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NRCS
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Barrow
Definition:
A barrow is a young neutered male hog raised for meat. We have no idea what connection, of any, it has with the term
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Our Ohio
Acronym:
BCS
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Basic Conservation System
Definition:
An erosion control system for treating sheet, rill, wind, and ephemeral gully erosion on highly erodible land.
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Beach
Definition:
Land that is adjacent to the shore of an ocean, sea, large river, or lake that is washed by the tide or waves. It is a subcategory of Barren Land.
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NRCS
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Beans
Definition:
Can refer to any of the varieties of beans that we humans enjoy eating (navy beans, kidney beans, etc.
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Our Ohio
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Beginning Farmer or Rancher
Definition:
An individual who has not operated a farm or ranch for more than 10 consecutive years. The individual must participate in the operation of the farm or ranch.
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Agren
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Benchmark Condition Inventory
Definition:
The documentation used to measure an applicant's existing level of conservation to determine program eligibility. It is also used to design a conservation security contract and to measure the change in conditions resulting from conservation.
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NRCS
Acronym:
BMP
Word:
Best Management Practice
Definition:
A BMP is a practice, or combination of practices, determined by a state or other agency to be the most effective and practicable (including technological, economic, and institutional considerations) means of reducing the amount of pollution from non-point sources to a level compatible with water quality goals.
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Biodiesel
Definition:
A fuel or fuel additive that is typically produced through the reaction of a vegetable oil or animal fat with methanol. Its use can result in substantial environmental benefits.
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Our Ohio
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Bioterrorism
Definition:
Bioterrorism might include such deliberate acts as introducing pests intended to kill U.S. food crops; spreading a virulent disease among animal production facilities; and poisoning water, food and blood supplies.
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Boar
Definition:
A male hog used for breeding. Many hog operations now use artificial insemination, which means that they manage without a boar by purchasing semen from a supplier and artificially inseminating the sows.
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Our Ohio
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Board of equalization
Definition:
A governmental body that reviews property tax assessment procedures.
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NRCS
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Boom irriagation
Definition:
Not nearly as exciting as it sounds, this phrase refers to an irrigation system in which a metal watering arm known as a
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Our Ohio
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Botanical pesticides
Definition:
Pesticides whose active ingredients are natural, plant-produced chemicals such as nicotine, rotenone, or strychnine, which only goes to show that Mother Nature isn
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Our Ohio
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Bull
Definition:
Male bovine kept for breeding purposes. In the dairy industry, though, many farms do not have a bull since they buy their semen from a supplier and artificially inseminate (also known as
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Our Ohio
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Burley tobacco
Definition:
An air-cured cigarette tobacco. Burley and flue-cured tobacco (tobacco cured by heat) account for more than 90 percent of total U.S. production.
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Our Ohio
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Bushel
Definition:
A measure of dry volume. A bushel need not weigh any particular amount
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Our Ohio