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A
ACRE Guarantee Parameters
ACRE Payment Parameters
ACRE Payment Timing
ACRE Payments
Accurate Documentation
Acreage Base and Payment Acres for Calculating Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments
Acreage Limitations
Adjusted Gross Income Limitation
Administration
Administrative Provisions
Agricultural Biosecurity Grant Program
Agricultural Chemicals Security Credit
Agricultural Conservation Experienced Service Program (ACES)
Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund
Agricultural Land Preservation Programs
Agricultural Management Assistance Program (AMA)
Agricultural Provisions
Agricultural Research Facility Funding
Agricultural Security
Agricultural Water Enhancement Program
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
Allowance of Section 1031 Treatment for Exchanges Involving Certain Mutual Ditch, Reservoir, or Irrigation Company Stock
Amendments to Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 and Related Statutes
Amendments to Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (CFAA)
Amendments to Existing Authorities
Amendments to Existing Legislation
Amendments to Other Forestry-Related Laws
Amendments to Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act (RCA) of 1977
Animal Health Protection
Animal Welfare Act Fines
Anti-Fraud Authority over Principal-to-Principal Transactions
Appropriate Technology Transfer Program For Rural Areas
Assistance to Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau
Association of Producers
Attribution of Benefits
Audits
Authorization for Reburial of Human Remains and Cultural Items on National Forest System Lands
Authorization of Appropriations
Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program
Avoiding Forfeitures

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B
Bank for Cooperatives Voting Stock
Basin States Program
Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program
Beginning Farmer and Rancher Individual Development Accounts Pilot Program
Beginning Farmer or Rancher and Socially Disadvantaged Farmer or Rancher Contract Land Sales Program
Benefit Issuance
Benefits
Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust
Biobased Markets Program
Biodiesel Fuel Education Program
Bioenergy Feedstock
Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels
Bioenergy Research
Biofuels Infrastructure Study
Biomass Crop Assistance Program
Biomass Research and Development
Biorefinery Assistance
Biosecurity Communications Center
Biotechnology
Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research
Bioterrorism/Biosecurity
Boundary Adjustment and Land Conveyance Provisions
Broadband Programs
Budget Submission and Funding
Business and Industry Program Changes
Buy American

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C
Calculation of Volume of Alcohol for Fuel Credits
Cap on Indirect Costs
Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
Catfish Grading and Inspection
Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program
Census of Agriculture
Changes to State Forest Stewardship Committee
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Conservation Program
Circuit Rider Program
Clementine Marketing Order
Commodity Certificates
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Authority over Agreements, Contracts, or Transactions in Foreign Currency
Commodity Loan Rates
Commodity Program Limits
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
Communication and Information Programs
Community Food Security and Emergency Food Grants
Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program
Community Wood Energy Program
Competition in Programs
Competitive Allocation of Funds for Cooperative Forest Innovation Partnerships
Competitive Certification Awards Modification Authority
Competitive Grants for Research to Assist Farmers
Compliance Mechanisms
Compliance and Performance
Compliance and Verification
Comprehensive Study of Biofuels
Conservation Access
Conservation Compliance
Conservation Corridor Demonstration Program
Conservation Innovation Grants
Conservation Loan and Loan Guarantee Program
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
Conservation Reserve and Wetland Reserve Programs
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)
Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA)
Conservation of Private Grazing Lands (CPGL)
Consultative Group to Eliminate Use of Child Labor and Forced Labor in Imported Agricultural Products
Content and Placement of Labels
Continuous Signup
Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Areas
Cost-Share Assistance
Cotton Price Forecasting
Counter-Cyclical Payments (CCPs)
Country-of-Origin Labeling
Covered Commodities
Credit for Production of Cellulosic Biofuel
Criminal and Civil Penalties
Crop insurance
Cross-Program Provisions
Cultural and Heritage Cooperation Authority
Customs User Fees

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D
Dairy
Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP)
Dairy Forward Pricing Program
Dairy Indemnity Program
Deduction for Endangered Species Recovery Expenditures
Definition of Rural
Definitions
Delivery of Technical Assistance
Department of Agriculture Conference Transparency
Desert Terminal Lakes
Designation of States for Cotton Research and Promotion
Determination of Domestic Supply Requirements
Determination on Merits of Pigford Claims
Direct Payments
Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments
Domestic Food Assistance Programs (Section 32 Funds)
Down Payment Loan Program
Durum Wheat Quality Program

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E
Effective Date
Eligibility
Eligibility of Equine Farmers and Ranchers for Emergency Loans
Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish
Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)
Emergency Food Infrastructure Grants
Emergency Forest Restoration Program
Emergency Forestry Conservation Reserve Program
Emergency Loans
Emerging Markets Program
Emerging Markets and Facility Guarantee Loan Programs
Employment and Training
Encouragement of Pollinator Habitat Development and Protection
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programs
Energy Provisions
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
Equalization of Loan-Making Power of Certain Districts
Ethanol Duty Extension
Excess and Surplus USDA Computers to Rural Areas
Exclusion of Conservation Reserve Program Payments from SECA (Self-Employed Contributions Act) Tax for Certain Individuals
Existing Programs
Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102)
Export Credit Guarantee Programs
Export Enhancement Program (EEP)
Extension of Right of First Refusal to Reacquire Homestead Property to Immediate Family Members of Borrower-Owner

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F
Facility Guarantee Loan Program
Farm Credit
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation Premiums and Certification of Premiums
Farm Labor Housing Program
Farm Ownership Loans
Farm Protection Program (formerly Farm and Ranchland Protection Program)
Farm Service Agency Office Closure
Farmable Wetlands Program (FWP)
Farmers' Market Nutrition Programs
Farmers' Market Promotion Program
Farmers' Market and Community Food Promotion
Farming Experience (Direct Farm Operating Loans)
Farming Experience (Direct Farm Ownership Loans)
Federal Milk Marketing Orders
Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers
Fish
Fisheries Disaster Assistance
Flexible Marketing Allotments
Food Aid Consultative Group
Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)
Food Distribution Programs
Food Safety Education Initiative
Food Safety Improvements
Food Stamp (FSP)/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Food for Peace Act
Food for Progress (FFP)
For Alaskan and Native American Communities
For Nonprofit Organizations
For Very Small Communities
Foreclosure
Foreign Market Development Program (FMD)
Forest Biomass for Energy
Forest Products for Traditional and Cultural Purposes
Fraudulent USDA Program Participation and Debarment
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
Fruit and Vegetable Promotion
Funding and Administration of Education-Related Institutions

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G
General Business Assistance Programs
General Provisions
General Signup
General Water and Waste Program Provisions
Geographically Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers
Global Diversity Trust
Grants to Improve Agricultural Labor Supply, Stability, Safety, and Training
Grants to Improve Transporting Specialty Crops
Grants to Reduce Methamphetamine Production
Grants to Rural Community Colleges
Grassland Reserve Program (GRP)
Grassroots Source Water Protection Program
Great Lakes Basin Program for Erosion and Sediment Control
Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF) Boundary Adjustment
Green Mountain National Forest Land Exchange/Sale

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H
Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2008 (HOPE II)
Hard White Wheat Development Program
Hass Avocado Marketing Order
Healthy Food Education and School Gardening Pilot Programs
Healthy Forest Reserve Program
Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center
High-Priority Research and Extension Initiatives
Highly Erodible Land Conservation (Conservation Compliance/Sodbuster)
Hispanic-Serving Institution Agricultural Land National Resources Leadership Program
Hog and Poultry Production Contracts
Hunger-Free Community Grants

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I
Incentives for Certain Farmers and Ranchers and Indian Tribes
Increase in Loan Limits on Agricultural Bonds
Information Gathering
Information Reporting
Information Reporting for CCC Transactions
Initiatives for Competitive Grants
Insurance of Organic Crops
Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-103)
International Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education
Inventory Reduction
Inventory Sales Preferences

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L
Land Conveyances, Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park, NM, and George Washington National Forest, VA
Land Grant Institutions – 1862 and 1890 Institutions
Large Trader Reporting
Limitation on Excess Farm Losses of Certain Taxpayers
Limitations on Amount of Farm Ownership Loans
Limitations on Amount of Operating Loans
Limitations on Duty Drawback on Certain Imported Ethanol
Livestock Forage Disaster Program
Livestock Health and Diseases
Livestock Indemnity Payments
Livestock Mandatory Reporting
Loan Deficiency Payments
Loan Fund Set Asides
Loans to Purchasers of Highly Fractionated Land
Local Capacity in Agricultural Biosecurity Planning, Preparedness, and Response
Local Television Access Programs
Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Projects
Locally Produced Foods
Long-Term Statewide Assessments and Strategies for Forest Resources

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M
Mandatory Reporting of Dairy Commodities
Market Access Program (MAP)
Market Loss Assistance for Asparagus Producers
Market News Activities Regarding Specialty Crops
Market-Based Incentives for Conservation
Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments (LDPs)
Marketing Orders Research and/or Promotion Programs
McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program
Meat
Meat, Poultry, and Catfish Inspection
Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) Payments
Mineral Royalty Income Qualifying Income for Timber REITs
Minority Farmers Advisory Committee
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Conservation Programs and Provisions
Miscellaneous Programs
Miscellaneous Provisions
Miscellaneous Trade Provisions
Modification of Alcohol Credit
Modification of Optional Method of Computing Net Earnings for Self-Employment
Modification of Taxable REIT Subsidiary Asset Test for Timber REITs
Mushroom Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Program

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N
National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board (NAREEEAB)
National Appeals Division
National Aquatic Animal Health Plan
National Clean Plant Network
National Dairy Promotion and Research Program (NDPRP) and National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program (NFMPPP)
National Honey Board
National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
National Organic Program Support
National Priorities for Private Forest Conservation
National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP)
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center
National and International Hunger Fellows
New Grants and Research Programs
New Small Business Programs
Non-Land Grant Universities and Colleges of Agriculture
Nutrition
Nutrition Education, Promotion, and Outreach
Nutrition Monitoring

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O
Office of Advocacy and Outreach
Office of International Forestry
Operating Loans
Operations
Orchard and Nursery Tree Assistance Program
Organic Agriculture
Other Definition Changes
Other Minority-Serving Land Grant Institutions
Other Miscellaneous Provisions
Other New Provisions
Other Revenue Provisions
Other Risk Management Provisions
Other Types of Institutions
Outreach and Assistance Program for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers
Oversight and Compliance
Oversight, Monitoring, and Evaluation

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P
Partnerships and Cooperation
Payment Acreage for ACRE
Payment Limitations
Payment Limits and Income Eligibility
Payment Yield for Calculating Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments
Peanuts
Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Ginseng, Peanuts, Pecans, and Macadamia Nuts
Permanent Disaster Assistance
Permanent Law
Pest Eradication and Detection
Pest and Disease Management
Pest and Disease Revolving Loan Fund
Pilot Programs and New Product Development
Planting Flexibility and Restrictions for Program Participants
Pollinator Research
Portfolio Margining and Security Index Issues
Premiums
Preparation, Stockpiling, and Rapid Delivery of Shelf-Stable Prepackaged Foods
Prepositioning Commodities
Prevention of Illegal Logging Practices
Price Support
Privacy of Personal Information
Production and Market Data
Program Administration and Integrity
Program Integrity
Program Simplification
Prohibition on Disclosure
Promoting Value-Added Agriculture
Promotion of Conservation through Environmental Services Markets
Protection of Social Security
Provision of Agricultural Commodities, Levels of Assistance, and Authorization of Appropriations
Pseudorabies Eradication Program
Purchase of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Distribution

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Q
Qualified Forestry Conservation Bonds
Qualifying Timber Contracts Options
Quality Incentive Payments for Covered Oilseed Producers

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R
Receipt for Services
Recourse Loans for High-Moisture Corn and Seed Cotton
Regional Authorities
Regional Development
Regional Equity
Regional Infrastructure and Economic Development
Removal of Market Development Objective
Renewable Fertilizer Study
Repayment of Loans
Repeals and Terminations
Report of Civil Rights Complaints, Resolution, and Actions
Reporting Violations of Packers and Stockyards Act
Repowering Assistance
Research Management and Coordination
Research Planning and Review
Research and Development for Developing Countries
Research and Development of Agricultural Countermeasures
Research and Extension Funding
Research, Education, and Extension Office (REEO)
Research, Extension, and Educational Programs on Biobased Energy Technologies and Products
Resource Conservation and Development Program (RC&D)
Revenue Provisions for Agriculture Programs
Review of Bonding Requirements
Rural Development
Rural Electric Programs
Rural Energy Self Sufficiency Initiative
Rural Energy for America Program
Rural Revitalization Technologies
Rural Utility Loans

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S
Safe Harbor for Timber Property
School Meals Issues
Sense of Congress Regarding Claims Against USDA by Socially Disadvantaged Farmers or Ranchers
Severability and Savings Provisions
Significant Price-Discovery Contracts
Significant Price-Discovery Contracts on Exempt Commercial Markets
Small Business Loan Program
Small Watershed Rehabilitation Program
Socially Disadvantaged and Limited-Resource Producers
Softwood Lumber Importer Declaration Program
Special Competitive Provisions for Extra-Long Stable Cotton
Special Upland Cotton Marketing Loan Provisions
Special-Purpose Community Programs
Specialty Crop Competitiveness
Specialty Crops
Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA)
State Coordinator
State-Inspected Meat and Poultry
Storage Facility Loan Program
Storage and Handling Costs
Streamlined Application
Studies of Dairy Policy and Marketing Orders
Study on Bioenergy Operations
Study on Rural Power Generation Needs
Sub-Saharan Africa: Project in Malawi
Sugar
Sugar Storage Facility Loan Program
Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance (SADA)
Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE)
Supplier Credit Guarantee Program (SCGP)
Survey of School Food Purchases
Suspension of Limitation on Period for Eligibility for Guaranteed Assistance

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T
Tariff-Rate Quotas (TRQs)
Tax Provisions
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance (TA)
Technical Assistance for Organic Conservation Practices
Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) Program
Technical and Conforming Amendments
Telemedicine and Distance Learning
Temporary Closure of National Forest System Land for Traditional and Cultural Purposes
Temporary Reduction in Rate of Tax on Qualified Timber Gain of Corporations
Temporary Tax Relief for Kiowa County, KS, and Surrounding Area
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
Three-Year Depreciation for Race Horses That Are 2 Years Old or Younger
Timber REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) Modernization
Time for Payment of Corporate Estimated Taxes
Tracking of Benefits
Transition to Private Commercial or Other Sources of Credit
Transparency and Accountability
Transportation Study
Treatment of Farms With Limited Base Acres
Trichinae Certification Program
Two-Year Extension of Special Rule Encouraging Contributions of Capital Gain Real Property for Conservation Purposes

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U
USDA Graduate School
Unused Merchandise Drawback
Upland Cotton Economic Adjustment Assistance
Uruguay Round Compliance

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V
Value-Added Agricultural Product Marketing Development Grants
Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program

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Water and Waste Facilities and Community Programs
Watershed Programs
Wetland Conservation (Swampbuster)
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
Whole Grain Pilot Projects
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)
Working Land Programs

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Updated date: August 20, 2008