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
Target Prices - The minimum level of prices determined by law to provide an economic safety net. Sometimes call the guaranteed price level. The target price, based on cost of production, becomes the price support level at which the government will bolster farm income by making price support payments to qualifying farmers when national average market prices fall below the target.
Tariff - A tax imposed on imported goods. A tariff can be used to limit the amount of a product entering a country by making the item more expensive to domestic consumers.
Terminal Market - A metropolitan market that handles all agricultural commodities.
Tract - A unit of contiguous land under one ownership, which is operated as a farm or part of a farm.
T-values - A local soil conservation district determination of what is an acceptable rate of erosion on a given soil.
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