Specialty crops definition

Specialty crops means any agricultural commodity except wheat, feed grains, oil seeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, and tobacco, as well as products derived from these agricultural commodities.

Specialty crops means fruit orchards, vegetables, tree farms and nurseries, turf farms, and apiaries.

Specialty crops means crops with unique production based attributes which give rise to market differentiation from mainstream commodity crops which is preserved through grading, packing, marketing and distribution to the final consumer.Differentiating attributes may include some or all of unique genetics, specialized production programs, and unique facility and management requirements. Greenhouse Vegetable Crops designated as specialty crops are listed in Schedule 5 to these Orders.

Examples of Specialty crops in a sentence

• Commodities in this group are commercial crops that are not covered by catastrophic risk protection crop insurance, are used for food or fiber (except livestock), and specifically include, but are not limited to, floricultural, ornamental nursery, Christmas trees, turf grass sod, aquaculture (including ornamental fish), and industrial crops.• Specialty crops.

• Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture).

• Specialty crops are defined in law as “fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops, including floriculture.” The USDA maintains a more comprehensive list of eligible specialty crops on its website that will be updated as USDA gets new questions.

• Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture.

• Specialty crops include fruits and vegetables, tree nuts (not including peanuts), dried fruits, nursery crops, and floriculture, as defined by the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-465).

• Specialty crops are defined as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture).

• Specialty crops are given consideration due to bare sites and highly erodible soil conditions.

• Specialty crops are defined in law as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture.

• Specialty crops means fruits, tree nuts, vegetables, culinary herbs and spices, medicinal plants, and nursery, floriculture, and horticulture crops.

• Specialty crops are defined by USDA as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, nursery crops, and honey (see Appendix E for a list of specialty crops).

More Definitions of Specialty crops

Specialty crops means agricultural crops, such as annuals, flowers, perennials, and other horticultural products, that are intensively cultivated.

Specialty crops means commonly recognized fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and nursery crops (including floriculture).

Specialty crops means crops with unique production based attributes which give rise to market differentiation from mainstream commodity crops which is preserved

Specialty crops means land other than prime farmland that is used for the production of specific high value food and fiber crops. It has the special combination of soil quality, location, growing season, and moisture supply needed to economically produce sustained high quality and/or high yields of a specific crop when treated and managed according to acceptable farming methods. Examples of such crops are citrus, tree nuts, olives, cranberries, fruit, and vegetables. (Definition is adopted from the USDA definition of “Unique Farmland.”)