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Definition: Farm Bill |
Farm BillNoun1. A statute that would regulate farm production and prices. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | A phrase that refers to a multi-year, multi-commodity federal support law. It usually amends some and suspends many provisions of permanent law, reauthorizes, amends, or repeals provisions of preceding temporary agricultural acts, and puts forth new policy provisions for a limited time into the future. Beginning in 1973, farm bills have included titles on commodity programs, trade, rural development, farm credit, conservation, agricultural research, food and nutrition programs, marketing, etc. These are referred to as omnibus farm bills. The following is a generally agreed chronological list of farm bills: (1) Food and Agriculture Act of 1965, P.L. 89-321; (2) Agricultural Act of 1970, P.L. 91-524; (3) Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, P.L. 93-86; (4) Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, P.L. 95-113; (5) Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, P.L. 97-98; (6) Food Security Act of 1985, P.L. 99-198; (7) Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, P.L. 101-624; (8) Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, P.L. 104-127. (references) |
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Crosswords: Farm Bill |
| Specialty definitions using "farm bill": Agricultural Act of 1970, Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 ♦ Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961 ♦ Decoupling ♦ Fast track authority, Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, Food Security Act of 1985, Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 ♦ Permanent law. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | I've got it! Let's get a farm bill of our own!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Rush Limbaugh | All that was produced from the Tom Daschle-led Senate was a bloated farm bill with redundant disaster relief in it and campaign finance reform. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | The farm bill, transportation policy, product liability reform, enterprise zones. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-l-l-m-r" | |
-3 letters: brail, brill, filar, flail, flair, frail, frill, libra, limba, maill, mbira. | |
-4 letters: abri, alif, amir, aril, bail, ball, balm, barf, barm, bill, bima, birl, blam, brim, fail, fair, fall, farl, farm, fiar, fila, fill, film, firm, flab, flam, iamb, lair, lamb, lari, liar, lima, limb, lira, mail, mair, mall, marl, mill, rail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-l-l-m-r" | |
+4 letters: flabelliform, formalizable, myofibrillar. | |
+5 letters: liebfraumilch, microfilmable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 72 6D 42 69 6C 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110010 01101101 00100000 01000010 01101001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a r m   B i l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0072 006D 0042 0069 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40678479236757878 |
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