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- Marketing contract
- Prices (or pricing mechanisms) are established for a commodity before harvest or before the commodity is ready for marketing. Most management decisions remain with the grower, who retains ownership of both production inputs and output until delivery. The farmer assumes the risks of production but shares price risks with the contractor. Marketing contracts are commonly used for crops and not livestock. According to the USDA, about 40% of the value of all fruits and vegetables produced in 1997 were under marketing contracts. Marketing contract shares for selected other commodities were: sugar beets, 82%; milk, 60%; cotton, 33%; cattle, 10%; soybeans, 9.4%; corn, 8%.
- Mass balance
- The application of the principle of the conservation of matter.
- Mass Balance Condition
- The mass of all the inputs used to produce goods and services (output) must equal the mass of the resulting output(s) plus the mass of the wastes.
- Mass curve
- A graph of the cumulative values of a hydrologic quantity (such as precipitation or runoff), generally as ordinate, plotted against time or date as abscissa. (See Double-mass curve, and Residual-mass curve.)
- Mauna Loa
- An intermittently active volcano (elevation
- Maximum probable flood
- See Flood, maximum probable
- Meander
- The winding of a stream channel.
- Meander amplitude
- Distance between points of maximum curvature of successive meanders of opposite phase in a direction normal to the general course of the meander belt, measured between centerlines of channels.
- Meander belt
- Area between lines drawn tangential to the extreme limits of fully developed meanders.
- Meander breadth
- The distance between the lines used to define the meander belt.
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