Agriculture definition

Agriculture means farming in all its branches, including cultivation and tillage of the soil; dairying; production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodity; raising of livestock, bees, furbearing animals, or poultry; and any practice, including any forestry or lumbering operations, performed on a farm in conjunction with farming operations, including preparation and delivery of produce to storage, to market, or to carriers for transportation to market;
Agriculture means the operation of farm premises, including the planting, cultivation, producing, growing, harvesting, and preparation for market of agricultural or horticultural commodities thereon, the raising of livestock for food products and for racing purposes, and poultry thereon, and any work performed as an incident to or in conjunction with the farm operations, including the sale of produce at on-site markets and the processing of produce for sale at on-site markets. It shall not include the commercial processing, packing, drying, storing, or canning of such commodities for market, or making cheese or butter or other dairy products for market;
Agriculture means construction of barns other agricultural structures; and

Examples of Agriculture in a sentence

  • For further information see the “Leave and Public Holidays“ Section of the People in Agriculture Website.

  • The STATE has been approved as an agent of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service for administering excess Department of Defense (DoD) personal property as part of the Firefighter Property (FFP) program, which allows the COOPERATOR to take custody and use FFP property in providing fire and emergency medical services, including disaster relief activities.

  • The Federal awarding agencies and grant sources are: U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) Employment and Training Administration, CFDA Numbers 17.258; 17.259; 17.268; 17.278; 17.207; 17.225; and 17.277; USDOL Veterans Employment and Training, CFDA Numbers 17.801; and 17.804; U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, CFDA Number 10.561; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, CFDA Number 93.558.

  • This Article memorializes the Parties’ commitment to afford CBP Officers and CBP Agriculture Specialists within the Office of Field Operations an annual procedure to bid to available work units and shifts and schedules within the area of responsibility of their Port Director with selections to assignments determined by qualifications and seniority.

  • Any company that exports meat products from Mexico must participate in the inspection program, which is supervised by an office in the Mexican Department of Agriculture (“SAGARPA”).


More Definitions of Agriculture

Agriculture means the basic and applied sciences of the soil and water management, crop production including production of all garden crops, control of plants, pests and diseases, horticulture including floriculture, animal husbandry including veterinary and dairy science, fisheries, forestry including farm forestry, home- science, agricultural engineering and technology, marketing and processing of agricultural and animal husbandry products, land use and management;
Agriculture means and refer to the art or science of cultivating the ground, and raising and harvesting crops, also often including feeding, breeding and management of livestock; tillage, husbandry, farming; in a broader sense, the science and art of the production of plants and animals useful to man. In this broad use it includes farming, horticulture, forestry, dairy farming, etc.
Agriculture means both agricultural production (establishments performing the complete farm or ranch operation, such as farm owner-operators, tenant farm operators, and sharecroppers) and agricultural support (establishments that perform one or more activities associated with farm operation, such as soil preparation, planting, harvesting, and management, on a contract or fee basis).
Agriculture or “Agricultural activities” means agricultural uses and practices including, but not limited to: Producing, breeding, or increasing agricultural products; rotating and changing agricultural crops; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie fallow (plowed and tilled, but left unseeded); allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant as a result of adverse agricultural market conditions; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant because the land is enrolled in a local, state, or federal conservation program, or the land is subject to a conservation easement; conducting agricultural operations; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural equipment; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural facilities, provided that the replacement facility is no closer to the shoreline than the original facility; and maintaining agricultural lands under production or cultivation.
Agriculture means both agricultural production (establishments performing the complete farm or ranch operation, such as farm owner-operators, tenant farm operators, and sharecroppers) and agricultural support (establishments that perform one or more activities associated with farm
Agriculture means the production of livestock, poultry, field crops, fruit, dairy, fur-bearing animals, Christmas trees, vermiculture products, food fish or other animal and vegetable matter.
Agriculture means and includes the basic and allied sciences of soil and water management, crop production including production of all the garden crops, animal husbandry including veterinary science and dairy science, fisheries, forestry including farm forestry, home science, agricultural engineering and technology marketing, processing, co-operaton, land use and management and the economic and social uplift of the rural people;