agriculture
Defined in 5 places across 4 titles of the United States Code.
“Agriculture” includes aquaculture and fisheries.
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- 1994–present22 U.S.C. § 2403Foreign Relations and Intercourse · Definitions · as used in this chapter
“Agriculture” includes farming in all its branches and among other things includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural commodities in section 1141j(g) 2 of title 12), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.
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- 2008–present29 U.S.C. § 203Labor · Definitions · as used in this chapter
“Agriculture” includes farming in all its branches and among other things includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural commodities in section 1141j(g) of title 12), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.
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- 1994–200829 U.S.C. § 203Labor · Definitions · as used in this chapter
As used in this subpart, the term “agriculture” includes the science and practice of activity related to food, feed, and fiber production, processing, marketing, distribution, utilization, and trade, and also includes family and consumer sciences, nutrition, food science and engineering, agricultural economics and other social sciences, forestry, wildlife, fisheries, aquaculture, floraculture, veterinary medicine, and other environmental and natural resources sciences.
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- 2000–present22 U.S.C. § 2220AForeign Relations and Intercourse · General provisions · as used in this subpart
For purposes of this subsection, the terms “small business”, “agriculture”, “small farm”, and “small agri-business” shall have the meanings given those terms by regulation of the Finance Board.
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- 1999–200812 U.S.C. § 1430Banks and Banking · Advances to members · under this section
For purposes of this subsection, the terms “small business”, “agriculture”, “small farm”, “small agri-business”, and “community development activities” shall have the meanings given those terms by regulation of the Director.
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- 2008–present12 U.S.C. § 1430Banks and Banking · Advances to members · under this section
The term “agriculture” means farming in all its branches, including—
(A) cultivation and tillage of the soil,
(B) the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any commodity grown on, in, or as an adjunct to or part of a commodity grown in or on, the land, and
(C) any practice (including preparation and processing for market and delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market) performed by a farmer or on a farm incident to or in conjunction with an activity described in subparagraph (B).
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- 1994–199642 U.S.C. § 254BThe Public Health and Welfare · Health centers · for purposes of this section
The term “agriculture” means farming in all its branches, including—
(i) cultivation and tillage of the soil;
(ii) the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any commodity grown on, in, or as an adjunct to or part of a commodity grown in or on, the land; and
(iii) any practice (including preparation and processing for market and delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market) performed by a farmer or on a farm incident to or in conjunction with an activity described in clause (ii).
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- 1996–present42 U.S.C. § 254BThe Public Health and Welfare · Health centers · for purposes of this section