Business As Usual Glossary

Glossary 

Total Farmland BAU 
"The acreage designated as ‘‘land in farms’’ consists primarily of agricultural land used for crops, pasture, or grazing. It also includes woodland and wasteland not actually under cultivation or used for pasture or grazing, provided it was part of the farm operator’s total operation. Large acreages of woodland or wasteland held for nonagricultural purposes were deleted from individual reports during the edit process. Land in farms includes CRP, WRP, FWP, and CREP acres." [Source: 2007 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service]

Farm "Since 1850, when minimum criteria defining a farm for census purposes were first established, the farm definition has changed nine times as the Nation has grown. A farm is currently defined, for statistical purposes, as any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products (crops and livestock) were sold or normally would have been sold during the year under consideration. This definition has been in place since August 1975—by joint agreement among USDA, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Bureau of the Census." [Source: Economic Research Service- Briefing Room http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/farmstructure/glossary.htm#farm]

Harvested Cropland BAU 
”This category includes land from which crops were harvested and hay was cut, land used to grow short-rotation woody crops and land in orchards, citrus groves, Christmas trees, vineyards, nurseries, and greenhouses. Land from which two or more crops were harvested was counted only once. Land in tapped maple trees was included in woodland not pastured. The 2007 census definition for harvested cropland is the same as the 2002 definition.” [Source: http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2007/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/usappxb.pdf]

Food Insecurity BAU Lack of “access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life...”   [Source: Nord, Mark, Margaret Andrews, and Steven Carlson. Household Food Security in the United States, 2008. ERR-83, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Econ. Res. Serv. November 2009]  

Farmers Income BAU "subtracting total farm expenses from total sales, government payments, and other farm-related income derives this concept. Depreciation is not used in the calculation of net cash farm income. Net cash farm income of the operation includes the value of commodities produced under production contract by the contract growers.  For publication purposes, farms are divided into two categories: 1. Farms with net gains (includes those operations that broke even), 2. Farms with net losses."  [
2007 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service]

Youth Overweight BAU 
 "Percentage of students who were overweight (i.e., >= 85th percentile but < 95th percentile for body mass index, by age and sex, based on reference data) [Source: Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss]

Obesity BAU Adults 18 years and older with a body mass index (bmi) between 30.0 - 99.8 [Source: Behavior Risks Factor Surveillance system, BRFSS]

Farmers Age BAU 
"Operators (up to three operators per farm) were asked to report primary occupation, sex, age, race, place of residence, if retired, number of days worked off farm, year in which his/her operation of the farm began, hired manager, number of persons living in the operators’ households, and Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino origin. Information on the total number of operators and total number of women operators was collected from each operation. In addition, the principal operator was asked to report the percentage of total household income that came from the farm operation." [Source: 2007 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service]

SNAP Participation BAU Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program- "The Food Stamp Program has a new name: SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. SNAP is a government assistance program to help low-income households buy food. SNAP food stamps can be used to buy almost any food item in any supermarket where you usually shop for food. People who use SNAP food stamps can spend the money they save to help pay their other bills." [Source: http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/applicant_recipients/eligibility.htm]