Miscellaneous Conservation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, May 4, 1983, Soil and Water Conservation Concerns and Issues (review Resources Conservation Act Report) ; September 20, 1983, H.R. 568 ... H.R. 2714 ... H.R. 2928 ... H.R. 3457 ... H.R. 3903 ... H.R. 3906 .... |
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Page 168 - Prime farmland is 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 (the land could be cropland, pastureland, rangeland, forest land, or other land, but not urban built-up land or water). It has the soil quality, growing season, and moisture supply needed to economically produce sustained high yields...
Page 413 - Treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed in Washington on February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande...
Page 169 - Unique farmland is land other than prime farmland that is used for the production of specific high value food and fiber crops. It has the special combination of soil quality, location, growing season, and moisture supply needed to economically produce sustained high quality and/or high yields of a specific crop when treated and managed according to acceptable farming methods.
Page 346 - We will stand in recess until 2 o'clock. [Whereupon, at 12:25 pm, the subcommittee recessed, to reconvene at 2 pm this same day.] AFTERNOON SESSION Mr.
Page 32 - Department — the use of each acre of agricultural land within its capabilities and the treatment of each acre in accordance with its needs for protection and improvement.
Page 168 - Federal programs are administered in a manner that, to the extent practicable, will be compatible with State, unit of local government, and private programs and policies to protect farmland.
Page 277 - The Congress hereby finds that the statutory authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, hereinafter referred to in this title as the "Secretary," for making and Insuring loans to farmers and ranchers should be revised and consolidated to provide for more effective credit services to farmers.
Page 396 - Sept. 29, 1977], submit to the President and Congress a report containing the results of and the Secretary's recommendations concerning, an investigation and analysis of the practicability, desirability, and feasibility of collecting organic waste materials, including manure, crop and food wastes, industrial organic waste, municipal sewage sludge, logging and wood-manufacturing residues, and any other organic refuse, composting or similarly treating such materials, and transporting and placing such...
Page 278 - ... unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance their actual needs at reasonable rates and terms, taking into consideration prevailing private and cooperative rates and terms in the community in or near which the applicant resides for loans for similar purposes and periods of time.
Page 323 - First mortgages executed to Federal land banks, or to joint stock land banks, and farm loan bonds issued under the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed and held to be instrumentalities of the Government of the United States, and as such they and the income derived therefrom shall be exempt from Federal, State, municipal, and local taxation.