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Definition of Soil bank
1. Noun. Land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soil Bank
Literary usage of Soil bank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Resource Conservation: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"In the 1950's, we had the soil bank, and in the 1980's, we had the CRP program.
My father put a small amount of acreage in the soil bank in the 1950's. ..."
2. Resource Conservation: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"In the 1950's, we had the soil bank, and in the 1980's, we had the CRP program.
My father put a small amount of acreage in the soil bank in the 1950's. ..."
3. Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard (2006)
"The next plan, again a consequence of statist logic at work, was to avoid these
embarrassing shifts of production by creating a "soil bank," whereby the ..."
4. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market: A Treatise on Economic by Murray Newton Rothbard (2004)
"The next plan, again a consequence of statist logic at work, was to avoid these
embarrassing shifts of production by creating a "soil bank," whereby the ..."
5. Valuing Rural Amenities by United States Dept. of Agriculture (2000)
"The original Conservation Reserve Program was established under the soil bank
Act 170 Stat. 188; 7 USC 1801-18371 in 1956 as agricultural prices ..."
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