Acronyms:

AAA: Agricultural Adjustment Acts

AAM:
American Agriculture Movement

AARC:
Alternative Agricultural Research & Commercialization Corporation

AASCARR:
American Association of Schools and Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources

AAW:
American Agri-Women

AC:
Animal Care

ACA
: Agricultural Credit Associations

ACB:
Agricultural Credit Bank

ACE:
Agriculture in Concert with the Environment

ACIF:
Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund

ACOP:
Academic Committee on Organization and Policy

ACP:
Agricultural Conservation Program (NASULGC)

ACR:
Acreage Conservation Reserve

ACTPN:
Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations

AD:
Anaerobic digestion

ADB:
Average daily balance

ADC
: Animal Damage Control (USDA)

ADI:
Acceptable daily intake

AES:
Agricultural Experiment Stations

AFBF
: American Farm Bureau Federation

AFO:
Animal feeding operation

AFT:
American Farmland Trust

AFV:
Alternative Fuel Vehicle

AGR:
Adjusted Gross Revenue

AHS:
Administrative Heads of Agriculture Section

AI:
Artificial insemination

AILFP:
American Indian Livestock Feed Program

AIN:
Animal identification number(s)

ALB:
Asian long-horned beetle

AMA:
Agricultural Management Assistance

AMAP:
Agricultural Management Assistance Program

AMI:
American Meat Institute

AMLAP:
Apple Market Loss Assistance Program

AMP:
Allotment management plan

AMR:
Advanced meat recovery

AMS:
Aggregate Measure of Support

AMS:
Agricultural Marketing Service

AMTA:
Agricultural Market Transition Act

APEP:
Accelerated Pseudorabies Eradication Program

APH:
Actual production history

APH:
Actual Production History insurance

APHIS:
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

APZ:
Agricultural protection zones

AQI:
Agricultural Quarantine Inspection program

ARCP
: Agricultural Resources Conservation Program

AREERA:
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998

ARL:
Anticipated residue level

ARP:
Acreage Reduction Program

ARPA:
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000

ARS:
Agricultural Research Service

ASA:
American Soybean Association

ASBR:
Asian soybean rust

ASCS:
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

ASF:
African swine fever

ASGA:
American Sugar Beet Growers Association

ASI:
American Sheep Industry Association

ATO:
Agricultural Trade Office(s)

AUM:
Animal unit month

AV:
Asset value

AVIC:
Area Veterinarian in Charge

AWA:
Animal Welfare Act

AWB:
Australian Wheat Board

AWP:
Adjusted world price

AWQPP:
Agricultural Water Quality Protection Program

B&I:
Business and Industry Loan

BA:
Budget authority

BARC:
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (Beltsville)

BARD:
Binational Agricultural Research and Development program

BC:
Bank for Cooperatives (CoBank)

BFP:
Basic formula price

BICO:
Bulk commodities, value-added intermediate agricultural products, and high-value, consumer-oriented foods and beverages

BIFAD:
Board for International Food and Agricultural Development

BLM:
Bureau of Land Management

BLV
: Bovine leukemia virus

BMP:
Best management practice

BOD:
Biological oxygen demand

BPI:
Beef (cattle) price index

BSE:
Bovine spongiform encelphalopathy

BSE:
Breeding soundness examination

BSL:
Biosafety Level

bST:
Bovine growth hormone

Bt:
Bacillus thuringiensis

BTU:
British Thermal Unit

C:
Cover management (factor)

C&F:
Cost and Freight

c.i.f:
Cost, Insurance, and Freight

CAB:
Crop Acreage Base

CACFP:
Child and Adult Care Food Program

CACM:
Central American Common Market

CAFO:
Concentrated animal feeding operation

CAFTA:
Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement

CAFTA-DR:
Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement

CAP:
Commodity Assistance Programs

CAP:
Common Agricultural Policy

CAR:
Crops at Risk

CARAT:
Committee to Advise on Reassessment and Transition

CARET:
Council on Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching

CARICOM:
Caribbean Community and Common Market

CAT:
Catastrophic coverage

CBER:
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

CBERA:
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983

CBI:
Caribbean Basin Initiative

CBOT:
Chicago Board of Trade

CCC:
Commodity Credit Corporation

CCEP:
Comprehensive Conservation Enhancement Program

CCP:
Critical control points

CDC:
Center for Disease Control and Prevention

CDP:
Crop Disaster Program

CE:
Competitive exclusion

CED:
County Executive Director

CERCLA:
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

CES:
Cooperative Extension Service

CES:
Cooperative Extension System

CET:
Common external tariff

CF:
Crude fiber

CFC:
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation

CFO:
Conservation Farm Option program

CFSA:
Consolidated Farm Services Agency

CFSAN:
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

CFTC:
Commodity Futures Trading Commission

CGIAR:
Consulting Group on International Agricultural Research

CHRP:
Critical Habitat Reserve Program

CHRP:
Critical Habitat Reserve Program

CI:
Charitable institutions

CIC:
Commodity Improvement Council

CIL:
Cash in lieu of commodities

CIP:
Cleaned-in-place

CIS:
Commonwealth of Independent States

CLDAP:
Crop Loss Disaster Assistance Program

CLP:
Certified Lender Program

CMA:
Cooperative Marketing Association Program

CME:
Chicago Mercantile Exchange

CMI:
Crop Moisture Index

CNF:
Cost and freight

CNMP:
Comprehensive nutrient management plan

CNPP:
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

CO:
Carbon Monoxide

CO2:
Carbon Dioxide

COAP:
Cottonseed Oil Assistance Program

COC:
County Committee

COE:
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

CoM:
Cost of money loans

COOL:
Country-of-origin labeling

CP:
Crude protein

CPGL:
Conservation of Private Grazing Lands Program

CRADA:
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

CRAT:
Civil Rights Action Team

CRC:
Crop Revenue Coverage

CREP:
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

CRIS:
Current Research Information System

CRP:
Conservation Reserve Program

CRSC:
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control program

CS:
Cooperative Service

CSA:
Community-supported agriculture

CSE:
Consumer subsidy equivalent

CSFP:
Commodity Supplemental Food Program

CSGW:
Compreensive State Ground Water Protection Program

CSP:
Conservation Security Program

CSREES:
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

CSRS:
Cooperative State Research Service

CTA:
Conservation technical assistance

CVA:
Capper-Volstead Act of 1922

CVD:
Countervailing duty (duties); countervailing measure(s)

CVM:
Center for Veterinary Medicine

CWA:
Clean Water Act of 1972; Clean Water Act of 1977

CWB:
Canadian Wheat Board

CWD:
Chronic wasting disease

CWSRF:
Clean Water State Revolving Fund

cwt.:
Hundredweight

CXT:
Common external tariff

DALR$:
Debt and Loan Restructuring System

dbh:
Diameter at breast-height

DCP:
Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program

DEIP:
Dairy Export Incentive Program

DHIA:
Dairy Herd Improvement Association

DIP:
Dairy Indemnity Program

DLT:
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program

DM:
Dry matter

DMI:
Dairy Management, Inc.

DMI:
Dry matter intake

DMLA:
Dairy Market Loss Assistance Program

DNA:
Deoxyribonucleic acid

DON:
Deoxynivalenol

DOP:
Digital orthophotography

DOPP:
Dairy Options Pilot Program

DP:
Direct payments

DPSP:
Dairy Price-Support Program

DR-CAFTA:
Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement

DRA:
Delta Regional Authority

DRAP:
Disaster Reserve Assistance Program

DRG:
Dorsal root ganglia

DRPP:
Dairy Refund Payment Program

DSB:
Dispute Settlement Body

EA:
Environmental assessment

EBC:
Equivalent bushel concept

EBI:
Environmental Benefits Index

EBV:
Estimated breeding value

EC:
Emulsifiable concentrates

EC:
Enterprise Community

EC:
European Community

ECARP:
Environmental Conservation Acreage Reserve Program

ECOP:
Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (NASULGC)

ECP:
Emergency Conservation Program

EE:
Environmental evaluation

EEP:
Export Enhancement Program

EEP:
Environmental Easement Program

EFAP:
Emergency Feed Assistance Program

EFGDP:
Emergency Feed Grain Donation Program

EFNEP:
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

EFP:
Emergency Feed Program

EI:
Erodibility (Erosion) Index

EIA:
Equine infectious anemia

EID:
Electronic identification

EIP:
Export Incentive Program

EIRP:
Extension Indian Reservation Program

EIS:
Environmental impact statement

eLDP:
Electronic loan deficiency payment

ELG:
Effluent limitations guideline

ELS:
Extra-long staple cotton

EM:
Emergency loans

EPA:
Environmental Protection Agency

EPD:
Expected progeny differences

EPIA:
Egg Products Inspection Act

EQIP:
Environmental Quality Incentives Program

ERS:
Economic Research Service

ES:
Extension Service

ESA:
Endangered Species Act

ESC:
Enteric Septicemia of Catfish

ESCOP:
Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (NASULGC)

ESP:
Experimental Stewardship Program

EU:
European Union

EUP: Experimental use permits

EWP:
Emergency Watershed Protection

EWR:
Electronic warehouse receipt

EWRP:
Emergency Wetlands Reserve Program

Ex-Im:
Export-Import Bank

EZ: Empowerment Zone

EZ/EC:
Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community program

F&CS:
Food and Consumer Service

F.A.S.:
Free Along Side

F.O.B.:
Free On Board

F.S.T.: F.O.B.,
Stowed, and Trimmed

FAC:
Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation

FAC:
Food Aid Convention

FACTA:
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990

FAD:
Foreign animal diseases

FAEIS:
Food and Agricultural Education Information System

FAIR:
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

FAIR:
(National) Farm Animal Identification and Records

FALCON:
First Americans Land-grant College Organization and Network

FAMC:
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp (Farmer Mac)

FAO:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(UN)

FAPD:
Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases

FAPRI:
Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute

Farmer Mac:
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation

FARRM:
Farm and Ranch Risk Managements accounts

FAS:
Foreign Agricultural Service

FCA:
Farm Credit Administration

FCB:
Farm Credit Bank

FCC:
Farm Credit Council

FCIC:
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

FCP:
Farm Credit Program of the FSA

FCP:
Flood Compensation Program

FCR:
Feed conversion ratio

FCS:
Farm Credit System

FCSI:
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation

FDA:
Food and Drug Administration

FDPIR:
Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations

FERRET:
Food Emergency Rapid Response and Evaluation Team

FEWS:
Famine Early Warning System

FFA:
Future Farmers of America

FFDCA:
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938

FFLA:
Federal Farm Loan Act

FFLI:
Fat-Free Lean Index

FFP:
Food for Progress Program

FFV:
Flexible fuel vehicle

FGIS:
(former) Federal Grain Inspection Service (USDA)

FI:
Food Institute

FICB:
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank

FIFRA:
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

FIP:
Forestry Incentives Program

FLB:
Federal Land Bank

FLBA:
Federal Land Bank Association

FLCA:
Federal Land Credit Association

FLEP:
Forest Land Enhancement Program

FLMPA:
Federal Land Management Policy Act

FLP:
Forest Legacy Program

FLPMA:
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976

FLRP:
Foundation Livestock Relief (Cost-Share) Program

FLSA:
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

FMD:
Foot-and-mouth disease

FMD:
Foreign Market Development Program (Cooperator Program)

FMDCP:
Foreign Market Development Program (Cooperator Program)

FmHA:
Farmers Home Administration

FMMO:
Federal Milk Marketing Order

FMNP:
Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program

FMP:
Forest management plan

FNS:
Food and Nutrition Service

FO:
Farm ownership loans

FOR:
Farmer-Owned Reserve

FORC-G:
Foodborne Outbreak Response Coordinating Group

FPP:
Farmland Protection Program

FPPR:
Farm Program Payment Reserve

FQPA:
Food Quality Protection Act of 1996

FRAC:
Forestry Research Advisory Council

FRPP:
Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program

FRRP:
Flood Risk Reduction Program

FRS:
Financially-related services

FS:
Forest Service (USDA)

FSA:
Farm Service Agency

FSFL:
Farm Storage Facility Loan Program

FSFLP:
Farm Storage Facility Loan Program

FSIS:
Food Safety and Inspection Service

FSMIP:
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program

FSN:
Farm serial number

FSP:
Forest Stewardship Program

FSP:
Food Stamp Program

FTAA:
Free Trade Area of the Americas

FTF:
John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Program

FVI:
Forage value index

FW:
Farmed wetland

FWP:
Farmable Wetland Pilot Project

FWPCA:
Federal Water Pollution Control Act

FWS:
Fish and Wildlife Service

FY:
Fiscal year

G & T:
Generation and Transmission

G-10:
Group of 10

G-11:
Group of 11

G-15:
Group of 15

G-2:
Group of 2

G-24:
Group of 24

G-3:
Group of 3

G-5:
Group of 5

G-7:
Group of 7

G-77:
Group of 77

G-8:
Group of 8

G-9:
Group of 9

GAAMP:
Generally Accepted Agricultural Management Practices

GAO:
Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office)

GATT:
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GCPO:
Global Change Program Office

GDP:
Gross Domestic Product

GFEI:
Global Food and Education Initiative

GIN:
Group/Lot Identification Number

GIPSA:
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

GIS:
Geographic information system

GLCI:
Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative

GM:
Genetically modified

GMA:
Grocery Manufacturers of America

GMAP:
Genetically modified agricultural products

GMO:
Genetically modified organism

GMP:
Good manufacturing practices

GMPP:
Genetically modified pest protected plants

GNP:
Gross National Product

GPCP:
Great Plains Conservation Program

GPRA:
Government Performance and Results Act

GPS:
Global positioning system

GRAS:
Generally Recognized as Safe

GRH:
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings

GRIP:
Group Revenue Insurance Policy

GRIP:
Group Risk Income Protection

GRP:
Grassland Reserve Program

GSE:
Government sponsored enterprise

GSM: 
See General Sales Manager (GSM).

GSM-102
: See CCC commercial credit, Export Credit Guarantee Programs (GSM-102 and GSM-103), and Supplier Credit Guarantee Program (SCGP).

GSM-103
: See CCC commercial credit, Export Credit Guarantee Programs (GSM-102 and GSM-103), and Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-103).

GSM-5
: See Direct export credit, Export credit sales program and CCC commercial credit.

GSP
: Generalized System of Preferences

GSWC:
Ground and Surface Water Conservation Program

GTC:
Grains Trade Convention

HACCP:
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System

HC:
Hydrocarbons

HCNP:
Homeless Children Nutrition Program

HCP:
Habitat Conservation Plan

HEC:
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program

HEP:
Higher Education Programs

HFCS:
High-fructose corn syrup

HIMP:
HACCP-based Inspection Models Project

HP:
Horsepower

HPA:
Horse Protection Act

HPLC:
High Performance Liquid Chromatography

HS:
Harmonized system

HTST:
High-temperature, short–time pasteurization

HTSUS:
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States

HUA:
Nonpoint Source Hydrologic Unit Areas projects

HVI: High Volume Instrumentation

HWWIP:
Hard White Wheat Incentive Payments

IADDP:
Indian Acute Distress Donation Program

ICA:
International Commodity Agreement

ICA:
International Coffee Agreement

ICCA:
International Cocoa Agreement

ICD:
International Cooperation and Development

ICM:
Integrated Crop Management

ICOP:
International Committee on Organization and Policy (NASULGC)

IDA:
International Dairy Arrangement

IFAFS:
Initiative for Future Agricultural and Food Systems

IFFS:
Integrated food and farming systems

IFMP:
Integrated Farm Management Program

IFR
: In-forest residues

IFS:
Integrated farming systems

IGA:
International Grains Agreement

IMF:
International Monetary Fund

IOOA:
International Olive Oil Agreement

IP:
Identity preserved

IP:
Income protection

IP:
International Programs

IPM:
Integrated Pest Management

IR-4:
 Interregional research No. 4. See IR-4 Project, Minor-use crops, Minor-use pesticides, and Pesticide clearance.

IRMA:
Individual Risk Management Accounts

IRP:
Intermediary Relending Program

IRRI:
International Rice Research Institute

IS:
International Services

ISA:
Institutional Strengthening Assistance grants

ISA:
International Sugar Agreement

ISO:
International Organization for Standardization

IT:
Intermediate-term loan(s)

ITBs:
International Trade Barriers

ITC:
International Trade Commission

ITDC:
International Trade and Development Centers

ITS:
Ineligible Tracking System

IWA:
International Wheat Agreement

K:
Potassium

K:
Soil erodibility (factor)

KPH:
Kidney, pelvic and heart fat

L:
Slope length (factor)

LACIE:
Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment

LAM:
Loss Adjustment Manual

LAP:
Livestock Assistance Program

LCP:
Livestock Compensation Program

LDC:
Less (least) developed countries

LDP:
Loan deficiency payment(s)

LEAP:
Livestock Environmental Assistance Program

LESA:
Land evaluation and site assessment

LGM:
Livestock Gross Margin insurance

LIBOR:
London Interbank Offered Rate

LIFDC:
Low income, food deficit countries

LIP:
Livestock Indemnity Program

LISA:
Low input sustainable agriculture

LMAAP:
Lamb Meat Adjustment Assistance Program

LOCAL:
Launching Our Communities’ Access to Local Television Act of 2000

LOEL/LOAEL:
Lowest observable (adverse) effect level

LRP:
Livestock Risk Protection insurance

LTLT:
Low-temperature, long-time pasteurization

LTV:
Loan to (asset) value

M-W:
Minnesota-Wisconsin Price

MA:
Mixed alcohols

MAP:
Market Access Program

MBT:
Methyl Bromide Transition Program

MC:
Moisture content

MFA:
Maximum flex(ible) acres(age)

MFA:
Multi-fiber Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles

MFN:
Most favored nation

MILC:
Milk Income Loss Contract program

MIP:
Minimum Import Price (EC)

MLG:
Marketing loan gain(s)

MLR:
Market loan repayment (provision)

MLR:
Marketing loan repayment (provision)

MLRA:
Major land resource area

MNC:
Multinational corporation(s)

MPC:
Milk protein concentrate

MPCI:
Multiperil crop insurance

MPP:
Market Promotion Program

MPPA:
Most probable producing ability

MS:
Mechanically separated

MSA:
Metropolitan Statistical Area

MSP:
Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program

MSPA:
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act

MSW:
Municipal solid waste

MTAs:
Material transfer agreements

MTD:
Maximum tolerated dose

MTN:
Multilateral trade negotiations

MUMS:
Minor use and minor species

N:
Nitrogen

NACD:
National Association of Conservation Districts

NACMCF:
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods

NAD:
National Appeals Division

NAFTA:
North American Free Trade Agreement

NAHMS:
National Animal Health Monitoring System

NAHRS:
National Animal Health Reporting System

NAIS:
National Animal Identification Program

NAL:
National Agricultural Library (USDA)

NAP:
Noninsured (Crop Disaster) Assistance Program

NAPIAP:
National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program

NARETPA:
National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977

NASS:
National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA)

NASULGC:
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges

NAWG:
National Association of Wheat Growers

NBAF:
National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

NBC:
National Broiler Council

NCA:
National Cattlemen’s Association

NCA:
National Cropland Acreage

NCA:
Normal Crop Acreage

NCBA:
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

NCC:
National Chicken Council

NCC:
National Cotton Council of America

NCE:
National Cheese Exchange

NCFC:
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

NCGA:
National Corn Growers Association

NCIMS:
National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments

NCP:
National Conservation Program

NDM:
Non-fat dry milk

NDPC:
National Drought Policy Commission

NE:
Northern Europe; Northern Europe price

NEPA:
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

NET:
Nutrition Education and Training

NFA:
Normal flex(ible) acres(age)

NFDM:
Non-fat dry milk

NFO:
National Farmers Organization

NFSMI:
National Food Service Management Institute

NFU:
National Farmers Union

NGO:
Nongovernmental organization

NGRP:
National Genetics Resources Program

NIC:
Newly industrialized country(ies)

NIPF:
Nonindustrial private forest land

NISA:
Net income stabilization account

NME:
Nonmarket economy

NMP:
Nutrient management plan

NMPF:
National Milk Producers Federation

NOAA:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOEL/NOAEL:
No observable (adverse) effect level

NOSB:
National Organic Standards Board

NPDES:
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPE:
Nutrition Program for the Elderly

NPIP:
National Poultry Improvement Plan

NPO:
National Partnership Office

NPO:
National Partnership Office

NPPC:
National Pork Producers Council

NRCS:
Natural Resources Conservation Service

NRDC:
National Rural Development Council

NRDP:
National Rural Development Partnership

NRECA:
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

NRI:
National Research Initiative (competitive grants program)

NRI:
National Resources Inventory

NRSP-7:
National Research Support Project No. 7

NSIP:
Nutrition Services Incentive Program

NSLP:
National School Lunch Program

NSP:
Nonpoint source pollution

NSTC:
National Science and Technology Council

NTB:
Nontariff trade barriers

NTF:
National Turkey Federation

NTR:
Normal trade relations

NVSL:
National Veterinary Services Laboratories

NWI:
National Wetlands Inventory

NWR:
NOAA weather radio

OAQ:
Overall allotment quality

OBPA:
Office of Budget and Program Analysis, USDA

OCD:
Office of Community Development

OCE:
Office of the Chief Economist, USDA

OECD:
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development

OFA:
Optional flex(ible) acres(age)

OGC:
Office of the General Counsel

OICD:
Office of International Cooperation and Development

OIG:
Office of Inspector General

OL:
Operating loan(s)

OMA:
Orderly marketing agreement(s)

OP:
Organophosphate(s)

OPIC:
Overseas Private Investment Corporation

OSDBU:
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, USDA

OSTP:
Office of Science and Technology Policy

P:
Phosphorus

P:
Support practice (factor)

P & S(A):
Packers and Stockyards Administration

P & SP:
Packers and Stockyards Program

PAB:
Resource Conservation and Development Policy Advisory Board

PACA:
Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930

PACE:
Purchase of agricultural conservation easements

PAH:
Polynuclear (polycyclic) aromatic hydrocarbons

PBIS:
Performance based inspection system

PBT:
Persistent bioaccumulative and toxic (chemicals)

PC:
Prior converted (wetland)

PCA:
Production Credit Associations

PCP:
Posted county price

PDP:
Pesticide Data Program

PDR:
Purchase of development rights

PDSI:
Palmer Drought Severity Index

PFC:
Production flexibility contract(s)

PIA:
Pesticide impact assessment

PIADC:
Plum Island Animal Disease Center

PIK:
Payment-in-kind

PIN:
Premises identification number

PIQ:
Partners in Quality

PL480:
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954

PLD:
Paid land diversion

PLP:
Preferred lender program

PMA:
Produce Marketing Association

PMC:
Pest Management Center

PNP:
Permit nutrient plan

POP:
Producer option payments

PP:
Prevented (from) planting

PPARS:
Program Planning and Reporting System

PPD:
Producer price differential

PPQ:
Plant Protection and Quarantine

PRIA:
Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978

PRP:
Pasture Recovery Program

PRRSV:
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

PRV:
Pseudorabies

PSB:
Pine shoot beetle

PSE:
Pale, soft, exudative

PSE:
Producer subsidy equivalents

PSP:
Point source pollution

PSS:
Porcine stress syndrome

pST:
Porcine somatotropin

PSW:
Pale, soft, watery

PTO:
Power take-off

PVO:
Private voluntary organization

PVPA:
Plant Variety Protection Act

QBOP:
Quota Buyout for Peanuts

QLP:
Quality Loss Program

QR:
Quantitative restriction(s)

QSP:
Quality Samples Program

QTV:
Qualified Through Verification

R:
Rainfall-runoff erosivity (factor)

RA:
Revenue assurance

RA-HP:
Revenue assurance with harvest price option

RA-HPO:
Revenue assurance with harvest price option

RAC:
Raw agricultural commodity(ies)

RAMP:
Rural Abandoned Mine Program

RAMP:
Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Program

RBEG:
Rural Business Enterprise grants

RBOG:
Rural Business Opportunity grants

RBP:
Restrictive business practice(s)

RBRNSLA:
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act

RBS:
Rural Business-Cooperative Service

RC&D:
Resource Conservation and Development Program

RCA:
Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977

RCAP:
Rural Community Advancement Program

RCWP:
Rural Clean Water Program

RDA:
Rural Development Administration

RDIF:
Rural Development Insurance Fund

rDNA:
Recombinant DNA

RDTF:
Rural Development Through Forestry

REA:
Rural Electrification Administration

READEO:
Regional Emergency Animal Disease Eradication Organization

REAP:
Rural Economic Area Partnership

REC:
Rural Electric Cooperative(s)

RECD:
Rural Economic and Community Development

REE:
Research, Education, and Economics, USDA

REEIS:
Research, Education, and Economics Information System

REI:
Rural economic integration

RETRF:
Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund

RFID:
Radio frequency identification

RHS:
Rural Housing Service

RLOC:
Revolving line of credit

RMA:
Rice Millers Association

RMA:
Risk Management Agency

RME:
Risk management education

RMP:
Resource management plan

RNA:
Ribonucleic acid

ROA:
Rate of return on assets

ROE:
Rate of return on equity

ROI:
Return on investment

ROPS:
Roll-over protection

RPA:
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974

RPAR:
Rebuttable Presumption Against Registration

RREA:
Renewable Resources Extension Act (of 1978)

RSA:
Research Support Agreement

RTB:
Rural Telephone Bank

RUS:
Rural Utilities Service

RUSLE:
Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation

S & D:
Special and differential treatment

SAA:
Shared appreciation agreement

SAES:
State Agricultural Experiment Stations

SAP:
Scientific Advisory Panel

SARE:
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program

SBI:
Substantial beneficial interest

SBIR:
Small Business Innovation Research Program

SBP:
School Breakfast Program

SCC:
Somatic cell count

SCGP:
Supplier Credit Guarantee Program

SCP:
Sugar-containing products

SCS:
Soil Conservation Service

SDA:
Socially disadvantaged

SDS:
Sudden Death Syndrome

SDWA:
Safe Drinking Water Act

SE:
Salmonella enteritidis

SED:
State Executive Director (FSA and RD, USDA)

SERD:
Science and Education Resources Development

SFMNP:
Seniors Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program

SFSP:
Summer Food Service Program

SHOP:
Small Hog Operation Payment Program

SIAP:
Supplemental Income Assistance Program

SIP:
Stewardship Incentive Program

SK/FB:
Soup Kitchen/Food Bank Program

SMP:
Special Milk Program

SMV:
Slow-moving vehicle

SMZ:
Streamside management zone

SNF:
Solids-not-fat

SNP:
Single nucleotide polymorphism

SOAP:
Sunflower Oil Assistance Program

SPEC:
Secondary and Two-Year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants Program

SPS:
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

SRA:
Standard Reinsurance Agreement

SRDC:
State Rural Development Councils

SRF:
State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund

SRIC:
Short rotation intensive culture

SRM:
Specified risk material

SRWC:
Short rotation woody crop

SSF:
Site-specific farming

SSRS:
Senior Scientific Research Service

STC:
State Committee (FSA, USDA)

STE:
State trading enterprise

SWANCC:
Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

SWCA:
Soil and Water Conservation Assistance

SWCD:
Soil and Water Conservation District

SY:
Scientist year

T:
T-value;  soil loss tolerance level

T-DNA:
Transfer DNA

T-Value:
Soil loss tolerance level

TAP:
Tree Assistance Program

TASC:
Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program

TBT:
Technical barriers to trade

TCK:
Tilletia controversa Kuhn fungus

TCP:
Transition contract payments

TCR:
Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program

TDR:
Transfer of development rights

TEA:
Targeted Export Assistance Program

TEFAP:
Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program

TEFAP:
The Emergency Food Assistance Program

TERP:
Tobacco Equity Reduction Program

TI:
Tobacco Institute

TILLING:
Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes

TLAP:
Tobacco Loss Assistance Program

TLC:
Thin layer chromatography

TMDL:
Total maximum daily load

TMS:
Total milk solids

TOP:
Target option payments

TOPP:
Tobacco Payment Program

TPRB:
Trade Policy Review Body

TPRM:
Trade Policy Review Mechanism

TRAC:
Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee

TSCA:
Toxic Substances Control Act

TSE:
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

TSI:
Timber stand improvement

TSNA:
Tobacco-specific nitrosamines

TSP:
Technical service provider

TTPP:
Tobacco Transition Payments Program

TZ:
Tetrazolium test

UA:
Urban agriculture

UBMTA:
Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement

UDIA:
United Dairy Industry Association

UEA:
United Egg Association

UEP:
United Egg Producers

UF:
Ultra-filtration

UGRSA:
Uniform Grain and Rice Storage Agreement

UHT:
Ultra-high temperature

UR:
Uruguay Round

URAA:
Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture

UREC:
Unavoidable residual environmental contamination

USAID:
U.S. Agency for International Development

USAIP:
U.S. Animal Identification Plan

USFWS:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

USGC:
U.S. Grains Council

USGSA:
U.S. Grain Standards Act

USLE:
Universal Soil Loss Equation

USNE:
U.S. Northern Europe price

USTR:
U.S. Trade Representative

USW:
U.S. Wheat Associates

USWA:
U.S. Warehouse Act of 1916

VAT:
Value-added tax

vCJD:
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

VS:
Veterinary Services

WAMLAP:
Wool and Mohair Market Loss Assistance Program

WAOB:
World Agriculture Outlook Board

WB:
Waybill

WBP:
Water Bank Program

WEP:
Water and Environmental Programs

WEQ:
Wind erosion equation

WH & B:
Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act

WHIP:
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program

WHPA:
Wellhead protection area

WHPP:
Wellhead Protection Program

WIC:
Women, Infants, and Children program

WIFE:
Women Involved in Farm Economics

WNV:
West Nile virus

WP:
Wettable powders

WPC:
Whey protein concentrate

WPD:
Worker protection standards

WQIP:
Water Quality Incentives Program

WRP:
Wetlands Reserve Program

WS:
Wildlife Services

WTO:
 See World Trade Organization (WTO).

WW-FTF:
Worldwide Farmer-to-Farmer Initiative

YBS:
Young, beginning, and small