Compiled by the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and provided through the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture
Last updated: Summer 2006
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Agricultural Acts
NAFTA - The North American Free Trade Agreement.
National Agricultural Library - The U.S. has three national libraries, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine and the National Agricultural Library (NAL). The National Agricultural Library, created under legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, is located on the grounds of USDA's Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland. It has a complete history of agriculture and related topics in the United States and is a repository for agricultural research. It is the largest agricultural library in the world.
Natural Resources Conservation Foundation - The NRCF was established to conduct research, undertake educational activities, support demonstration projects and make grants to state and local governments.
Nematode - Microscopic soil worm, which may attack roots or other structures of plants and cause extensive damage.
Net Farm Income - The money and non-money income farm operators realize from farming as a return for labor, investments and management, after production expenses have been paid.
Nitrogen - A chemical element essential to life and a primary plant nutrient. Animals get nitrogen from protein feeds; plants get it from soil; and some bacteria get it directly from air.
Non-attainment - A term used by environmental agencies to describe failure to comply with regulatory standards. Most associated with air quality standards.
Non-point Pollution - Pollutants that cannot be traced to a specific source, including stormwater runoff from urban and agricultural areas.
Non-Recourse Loans - Price-supported loans to farmers that enable them to hold their crops for later sale. Farmers may redeem their loans by paying them off with interest. The loans are "nonrecourse" because if a farmer cannot profitably sell the commodity and repay the loan when it matures, the commodity on which the loan was advanced can be delivered to the government for settlement of the loan.
Normal Farming Practices - The customary and generally accepted activities, practices and procedures that farmers consistently adopt, use, or engage in the production and preparation for market of crops, livestock, and livestock products and in the production and harvesting of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silviculture, aquacultural crops and commodities.
Normal Flex Acreage - Under the planting provisions of the 1990 Farm Act, producers can choose to plant up to 25 percent of the crop acreage base to other commodity Credit Corporation-specified crops (except fruits and vegetables) without a reduction in a crop acreage bases on the farm, but receiving no deficiency payment on this acreage. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 made a 15-percent reduction in payment acreage mandatory. The remaining 10 percent is the optional flex acreage.
No-till Farming - The soil is left undisturbed from harvest to planting except for nutrient and seed injection. Weed control is accomplished primarily with herbicides.
NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service is a service of the USDA, formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service.
Nutrient - A substance or recognized plant nutrient, element, or compound which is used or sold for its plant nutritive content. The term can include livestock and poultry manures, compost as fertilizer, commercially manufactured chemical fertilizers, sewage sludge or any combination thereof.
Nutrient Management Plan - A State approved plan which incorporates BMP's to manage the distribution or disposal of all farm animal wastes, including those used for crop protection, consistent with the criteria established in Pennsylvania's nutrient management laws.
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