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Pressure
The force exerted by the interaction of the atmosphere and gravity. Also known as atmospheric pressure.
Price
The amount of money, or other goods, that you have to give up to buy a good or service.
Price Ceiling
The upper legal limit on a price.
Price Elasticity of Demand
A measure of the responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good to changes in that goods price.
Price Floor
The lower limit imposed on a products price by a price control law.
Primary oil recovery
Pumping out the crude oil that flows by gravity into the bottom of an oil well. See enhanced oil recovery, secondary oil recovery.
Prime farmland
Land that is best suited to and available for the production of food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops. It can be cropland, pastureland, rangeland, forestland, or other land. It has the soil quality, growing season, and moisture needed to produce high yields of crops each year economically, if managed according to acceptable farm practices. Prime farmland produces the highest yields with minimal expenditure of energy and economic resources and does so with the least damage to the environment. Of the 334 million acres of prime farmland, 216 million are in cropland use, according to the 1992 national resources inventory.
Prior converted wetland
Under the swampbuster program, these are wetlands that were converted to cropland before swampbuster was enacted on December 23, 1985, and meet wetland criteria for saturated soils or water-loving plants. Under swampbuster, there are no restrictions on either drainage maintenance or additional drainage on prior converted wetlands, which are estimated to total more than 50 million acres.
Private Good
A good exclusively owned that cannot be simultaneously used by others. A good which when consumed by an individual is unavailable for others to consume
Private water system
“Any supply which provides water for drinking, culinary, and sanitary purposes and serves an owner-occupied single family dwelling.” (415 ILCS 55/9a5) The IDPH may conduct inspections to investigate the construction of private water systems. Upon request of the owner or user, the Department may also conduct investigations of the water quality of private water systems.

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