As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.

The ten largest producing countries, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, are all located in the Mediterranean region and produce 95 % of the world's olives.

Miracles From Agriculture ( 1960 ) from the USDA presents then supermarkets as the showplaces of agriculture, discussing methods of improvement in the growing, handling, processing, and shipping of food products and the cooperative assistance offered by agricultural and food-processing research centers ; the film also hypothesizes that a nation grows according to the productivity of its agriculture.

In 2009, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), 15. 0 million tons were harvested in 29 countries across the world.

For example, according to one anti-nuclear activist, Harvey Wasserman, the fallout caused " a plague of death and disease among the area's wild animals and farm livestock ", including a sharp fall in the reproductive rate of the region's horses and cows, reflected in statistics from Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, though the Department denies a link with TMI.

Today, according to the ranch's website, it “ is owned and operated by Matador Cattle Company, a division of Koch Agriculture Company, which is an indirect, owned subsidiary of Koch Industries .”

By way of comparison, in one of the largest food producing countries in the world, the United States, approximately one out of six people are " food insecure ", including 17 million children, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Three studies have been done since the late 1990s by the US Agriculture Department's Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia, according to the center's director, David Swayne.

The statistics are as follows ; " Direct-to-consumer marketing amounted to $ 1. 2 billion in current dollar sales in 2007, according to the 2007 Census of Agriculture, compared with $ 551 million in 1997.

North America now has at least 13, 000 CSA farms of which 12, 549 are in the US according to the US Department of Agriculture in 2007.

In 2011, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, it seems clear that no single factor alone is responsible for the malady, however honey bees are thought to possibly be affected by such chemicals which are known to work their way through the plant up into the flowers and leave residues in the nectar and pollen which bees forage on.

A substitute for it would be a mix of unbleached white flour, wheat bran, and wheat germ in the ratios found in whole wheat, but according to an alleged ruling of the Department of Agriculture that reportedly occurred sometime prior to November 1919, such remixing or recombining of the grain-fraction streams from roller mills could not legally be called " Graham " flour.

It was eradicated in the USA by 1978, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

What was puzzling about the quality of Amex's Field Warehousing operation was that since De Angelis was theoretically buying so much, they essentially authenticated the existence of much more salad oil than was actually accounted for in the entire United States, according to monthly reports from the Department of Agriculture.

USDA Soil Taxonomy developed by United States Department of Agriculture and the National Cooperative Soil Survey provides an elaborate classification of soil types according to several parameters ( most commonly their properties ) and in several levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, Subgroup, Family, and Series.

About 60 % of the world's pasture land is covered by grazing systems. Grazing systems supply approximately 9 percent of the world's production of beef, according to Food and Agriculture Organization FAO statistics.

To further protect the name, an association of traditional Prosecco growers is advocating a protected designation of origin status for Northern Italian Prosecco under European law. Prosecco is, according to an order of the Italian Minister of Agriculture dated 17 July 2009 since 1 January 2010 not the name of a grape variety any more ( now to be called Glera ), but exclusively a geographical indication.

Their Guide to Pesticides in Produce lists 44 fruits and vegetables based on the number of pesticides that they were found to contain according to United States Department of Agriculture data.

By 2004 over 100 million rural citizens were working in cities, according to the estimate of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.

The firm's financial woes were further complicated by four large meat packing companies-Pork Cutters, Inc., Rotches Pork Packers, Inc., Otto Doerrer and Son, Inc. and Crissman, Inc .-who collectively failed to pay for nearly $ 5 million worth of pork carcasses and meat products purchased from Arbogast & Bastian in 1983 and 1984, according to charges made by the United States Department of Agriculture.

It was founded in 1954, according to the Horse Racing Law ( 競馬法 Keiba Hō ) and the Japan Racing Association Law ( 日本中央競馬会法 Nippon Chūō Keiba Kai Hō ) and is operated under the strict oversight of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ( Japan ).

The species ( including the seed ) is legally prohibited from sale, transport, or planting in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Noxious Weed List ( F. A. C.

It also operates missions to the United Nations in New York City and Geneva, the European Council, and non-member representation to the European Union, Chemical Weapons Nonproliferation Organization, the OSCE, NATO, World Trade Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Agriculture was independently developed in the New Guinea highlands around 7000 BC, making it one of the few areas in the world where people independently domesticated plants.

" Multi-disciplinary Evidence for the Origins of Agriculture from 6950 – 6440 Cal BP at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea.

* c. 7000 BC: Agriculture among the Papuan peoples of New Guinea

Article, Precision Agriculture, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.

* Agriculture in New Zealand

* New Holland Agriculture

Permaculture, Ecology and Agriculture: An investigation into Permaculture theory and practice using two case studies in northern New South Wales Honours thesis, Human Ecology Program, Department of Geography, Australian National University 1993

* 1993, Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture, Zed Press, New Delhi

The Rutgers Scientific School would expand over the years to grow into the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station ( 1880 ) and divide into the College of Engineering ( 1914 ) and the College of Agriculture ( 1921 ).

* Douglas H. Fisher ( born c. 1948 ), New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture, member of the New Jersey General Assembly who represented the 3rd Legislative District and served on the Bridgeton City Council from 1990-1992.

The school was founded in 1888 as Las Cruces College, an agricultural college, and in 1889 the school became New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

* Clinton P. Anderson, Representative and Senator from New Mexico and Secretary of Agriculture, was born in Centerville.

* New Holland Agriculture

* New Holland Agriculture

He was dean of what was then known as New York State College of Agriculture from 1903-1913.

The New Hampshire Legislature would not attempt to establish another university until the 1860s, when it created the land-grant forerunner of the University of New Hampshire, originally called the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts – in Hanover, associated with Dartmouth College.

* New Holland Agriculture

* Agriculture in New Zealand

The program was developed after the New Jersey Department of Agriculture petitioned the USDA to create a GAP & GHP audit program as the result of farmers being asked by wholesale buyers to demonstrate their adherence to GAP and GHP.