House Journal: Page 833: Wednesday, March 24, 1999

44   file a lien pursuant to this subchapter is void and

45   unenforceable.
46     Sec. 12. NEW SECTION.  579A.5  ALTERNATE LIEN
47   PROCEDURE.
48     A person who is a custom cattle feedlot operator
49   may file and enforce a lien as a contract producer
50   under this chapter or chapter 579B, but not both.
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 1     Sec. 13. NEW SECTION.  579B.1  DEFINITIONS.
 2     As used in this chapter, unless the context
 3   otherwise requires:
 4     1.  "Commodity" means livestock or a crop.
 5     2.  "Contract crop field" means farmland where a
 6   crop owned by a contractor is produced by a contract
 7   producer.
 8     3.  "Contract livestock facility" means an animal
 9   feeding operation as defined in section 455B.161,
10   where livestock owned by a contractor is produced by a
11   contract producer who owns the animal feeding
12   operation.  "Contract livestock facility" includes a
13   confinement feeding operation as defined in section
14   455B.161 or a feedlot as defined in section 172D.1,
15   including a custom cattle feedlot.
16     4.  "Contract operation" means a contract livestock
17   facility or contract crop field.
18     5.  "Contract producer" means the owner of a
19   contract operation who is paid by a contractor for
20   producing a commodity owned by the contractor at the
21   contract operation.  A contract producer includes a
22   contract producer's personal representative.
23     6.  "Contractor" means a person who pays a contract
24   producer for producing a commodity at a contract
25   operation owned by the contract producer.
26     7.  "Crop" means any variety of alfalfa, barley,
27   buckwheat, corn, flax, millet, oats, rye, sorghum,
28   soybeans, or wheat, forage, or silage.
29     8.  "Farmland" means the same as defined in section
30   352.2.
31     9.  "Livestock" means beef cattle, dairy cattle,
32   sheep, or swine.
33     10.  "Personal representative" means a person who
34   is authorized by a contract producer to act on behalf
35   of the contract producer, including by executing an
36   agreement, managing a contract operation, or filing
37   and enforcing a lien as provided in this chapter.
38     11.  "Processor" means a person engaged in the
39   business of manufacturing goods from commodities,
40   including a person who is required to be licensed as a
41   dealer or broker as provided in chapter 172A.
42     12.  "Produce" means to do any of the following:

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