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