Important Usage Notes

Disclaimer of Endorsement

Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Reference from this web site to any non-governmental entity, product, service or information does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Department of Agriculture or any of its employees. We are not responsible for the content of any "off-site" web pages referenced from this application.

Disclaimer of Hyperlinks

The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Agriculture of the linked web sites, or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized Department of Agriculture activities, the Department does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. All links are provided with the intent of meeting the mission of the Department and this web site. Please let us know about existing external links which you believe are inappropriate and about specific additional external links which you believe ought to be included.

Disclaimer of Liability

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Cookies

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There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's temporary memory. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that your browser saves in a file on your hard drive.

Depending on your browser settings, you may receive notification that a given site is requesting cookie information, possibly with an expiration date. Persistent cookies have an expiration date in the future. Session cookies have no expiration date associated with them and are erased automatically when you close your browser.

This website uses temporary session cookies to provide advanced functionality and enhance performance during your visit. Persistent cookies are never used by this website. All session cookies created by this website are erased automatically when you close your web browser.