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Packer concentration
Definition:
The degree to which a few large firms dominate total sales within segments of the meat packing industry.
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Our Ohio
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Participant
Definition:
An applicant who is party to one or more U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) contracts; e.g. WHIP, EQIP, CRP and receives benefits from those programs.
Source:
NRCS
Acronym:
PFW
Word:
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
Definition:
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (PFW) works to restore wetlands, grasslands, and other threatened habitats. The federal government through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shares in the cost to restore habitats. This program is available on cropland, rangeland, forestland, and recreational land.
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Pasture
Definition:
A field covered with grass or other forage plants that are suitable for grazing by livestock. If you
Source:
Our Ohio
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Pastureland
Definition:
Land that is managed primarily for the production of forage plants for livestock grazing.
Source:
NRCS
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Percentage share lease
Definition:
The owner receives a share of the crop (i.e. 35%) and pays none of the production expenses.
Source:
ISU
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Percolating water
Definition:
Underground water not confined to a defined underground waterway.
Source:
NRCS
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Perennial Stream
Definition:
A stream or reach of a stream that normally flows continuously throughout the year.
Source:
NRCS
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Permanent Vegetative Cover
Definition:
Perennial stands of approved combinations of certain grasses, legumes, forbs, and shrubs with a life span of 10 or more years, or trees.
Source:
NRCS
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Person
Definition:
An individual, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative, estate, trust, joint venture/operation, or other business enterprise.
Source:
NRCS
Acronym:
PDA
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Personal Digital Assistant
Definition:
A hand-held, computer assisted survey collection tool used to record data.
Source:
NRCS
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Pest
Definition:
An animal or plant that is directly or indirectly detrimental to human interests, causing harm or reducing the quality and value of a harvestable crop or other resource. Weeds, termites, rats and mildew are all examples of pests.
Source:
Our Ohio
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Pesticide
Definition:
A substance used to kill, control, repel or mitigate any pest. Insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, herbicides and germicides are all pesticides. The EPA regulates pesticides, all of which must be registered and approved by EPA.
Source:
Our Ohio
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Phospohrus
Definition:
An essential nutrient for plants commonly applied as a phosphate fertilizer.
Source:
Our Ohio
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Photographic interpretation
Definition:
The act of examining photography images for the purpose of identifying objects and judging their significance.
Source:
NRCS
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Plan Map
Definition:
A photograph or sketch of a land area that shows property boundaries, land unit boundaries, physical features, location of planned and applied practices and other features.
Source:
NRCS
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Plan of Operations
Definition:
Specifies when and where practices will be implemented and includes a description of the practices and the purposes to be met by the implementation.
Source:
NRCS
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Planner
Definition:
A person, qualified by training and experience, who effectively assists the participant in completing the planning process.
Source:
NRCS
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Planning Process
Definition:
The nine-step process Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) uses to help clients plan and apply conservation treatments or make land use and treatment decisions.
Source:
NRCS
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Plat
Definition:
A map that shows the location and boundaries of individual properties.
Source:
NRCS
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Plow
Definition:
to work the soil by turning over the top layer; the machine used to turn the top layer of soil
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Plugs
Definition:
Tobacco plants that are about three weeks old and 1 inch in height.
Source:
Our Ohio
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Practice
Definition:
A structural or management treatment which is planned and applied to the land.
Source:
NRCS
Acronym:
PDR
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Practice Documentation Requirement
Definition:
The required documentation of a Technical Service Provider (TSP)
Source:
NRCS
Acronym:
P
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Practice factor (USLE)
Definition:
The ratio of soil loss with a support practice like contouring, strip-cropping, or terracing, to soil loss with straight-row farming up and down the slope.
Source:
NRCS
Acronym:
PIP
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Practice Incentive Payment
Definition:
A part of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
Source:
NRCS
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Practice Life Span
Definition:
The time period in which the conservation practices are to be used and maintained for their intended purposes.
Source:
NRCS
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Practice Narrative
Definition:
A brief non-technical description of the planned practice.
Source:
NRCS
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Pre-commercial Thinning
Definition:
A felling made in an immature crop or stand (predominantly seedlings and saplings having no commercial value) primarily to accelerate diameter growth but also, by suitable selection, to improve the average form of remaining trees without permanently breaking the canopy.
Source:
NRCS
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Preliminary Technical Determination
Definition:
The initial written technical determination/decision provided to a landowner or program participant.
Source:
NRCS
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Price supports
Definition:
Programs operated by USDA that are intended to maintain a minimum farm price when supply of a particular commodity exceeds demand and prices are unacceptably low.
Source:
Our Ohio
Acronym:
PSU
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Primary Sample Unit
Definition:
An area of land that is approximately 40, 100, 160, or 640 acres in size. Usually square or rectangular.
Source:
NRCS
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Prime Farmland
Definition:
Land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops and is also available for these uses.
Source:
NRCS
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Priority Area
Definition:
An area that has specific environmental sensitivities or significant natural resource concerns.
Source:
NRCS
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Private ownership
Definition:
A type of ownership of land belonging to an individual persons, partnerships, or cooperation.
Source:
NRCS
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Producer
Definition:
An owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing any crop or livestock.
Source:
NRCS
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Production contract
Definition:
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 contractor rather than the farmer owns the animals.
Source:
Our Ohio
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Program crops
Definition:
Crops (wheat, feed grains, cotton and rice) eligible for deficiency payments under commodity program provisions that ended in 1995. Other commodities receiving price support include cotton, soybeans and other oilseeds, tobacco, peanuts, sugar and milk. If you read the above listing for
Source:
Our Ohio
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Pruning
Definition:
Removal of live or dead branches from standing trees to improve the quality and value of selected crop trees that will be kept in the stand long enough to grow clear wood of economic importance.
Source:
NRCS
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Public Participation
Definition:
An integral part of planning with units of government. It provides opportunities for the public to be involved in an interchange of data and ideas.
Source:
NRCS