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Superglossary - Architecture Category: Architecture and Buildings Date & country: 16/12/2013, USA Words: 1135

Water 2000 Initiative
The program administered by the Rural Utilities Service whose goal is to improve the quality of drin

Water Bank Program (WBP)
A program to set aside wetlands for a period of 10 years (renewable) for conservation purposes. Part

Water Quality Incentives Program
This program was authorized in the FACT Act of 1990 and is administered by the Farm Service Agency.

Water Quality Initiative
A multi-agency effort, initiated by USDA in 1990, to determine relationships between agricultural ac

Water Quality Standards
State-adopted and the Environmental Protection Agency-approved ambient standards for water bodies. T

Water Service Contract
A type of contract, authorized by the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, whereby water is furnished fo

Waterfowl Production Areas
A small component of the National Wildlife Refuge System. There are over 2,000,000 acres of this pri

Watershed
The total land area, regardless of size, above a given point on a waterway that contributes runoff w

Wellhead Protection Area
A surface and subsurface land area regulated to prevent contamination of a well or well-field supply

Wet-Milling
A process in which feed material is steeped in water, with or without sulphur dioxide, to soften the

Wetlands
Areas of predominantly hydric soils that can support a prevalence of water-loving plants, know as hy

Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
A program authorized by FACT Act of 1990 to provide long-term protection for wetlands. Producers enr

Whole Herd Buyout Program
Another term for the dairy termination program.

Wholesale Price Index
A composite index of prices of commodities sold in primary U.S. markets. 'Wholesale' refers to sale

WIC Vendors
Grocery and other stores authorized as eligible to accept WIC coupons or vouchers and to receive rei

WIC Vouchers (Coupons)
Food instruments commonly issued by WIC agencies to participants that are used in grocery and other

Wilderness
An area of federal land, usually 5,000 acres or more, where the impact of man is largely unnoticeabl

Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program
A program established by the FAIR Act of 1996 to promote voluntary implementation of on-farm managem

Wildlife Refuges
Units of the National Wildlife Refuge System. They may be designated under general authorities of th

Wildlife Services (WS) Program
An Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service program to protect agriculture, natural resources, pro

Wind Erosion
The detachment and transportation of soil by wind. Wind erosion is a cropland management concern in

Wind Erosion Equation
An equation used to design wind erosion control systems, which considers soil erodibility, soil roug

Windbreak
A living barrier that usually includes several rows of trees, and perhaps shrubs, located upwind of

Wool And Mohair Commodity Programs
Income support was provided to producers of wool and mohair under authority of the National Wool Act

WORC Petition
The acronym stands for the Western Organization of Resource Councils, a private advocacy organizatio

Work-Training Programs
Work/training programs have two meanings in the food stamp program

World Food Program (WFP)
A UN agency that contributes commodities, services, and cash to developing countries to meet emergen

World Price
The price at which commodities will move in international trade under existing marketing conditions.

World Price (Rice)
As part of the rice marketing assistance loan program, USDA calculates the world price for each clas

World Trade Organization (WTO)
The international organization established by the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations t

Yield
The number of bushels (or pounds or hundredweight) that a farmer harvests per acre. Under the Food S

Yield Monitoring
Collecting data on the amount of production at regular intervals combined with GPS readings. The res

Zero 50-85-92 Provisions
Refers to the 50/85 and 50/92 commodity program provisions for rice and cotton and the 0/85 and 0/92

Zero Tolerance
In food safety policy, a 'zero tolerance' standard generally means that if a potentially dangerous s

Zoonotic Diseases
Diseases that under natural conditions are communicable from animals to humans. Tuberculosis and rab