House Journal: Page 1795: Wednesday, April 28, 1999

41   produces a commodity under a production contract

42   executed pursuant to section 579B.2.
43     6.  "Contractor" means a person who owns a
44   commodity at the time that the commodity is under the
45   authority of the contract producer as provided in
46   section 579B.3 pursuant to a production contract
47   executed pursuant to section 579B.2.
48     7.  a.  "Crop" means a plant used for food, animal
49   feed, fiber, or oil, if the plant is classified as a
50   forage or cereal plant, including but not limited to
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 1   alfalfa, barley, buckwheat, corn, flax, forage,
 2   millet, oats, popcorn, rye, sorghum, soybeans,
 3   sunflowers, wheat, and grasses used for forage or
 4   silage.
 5     b.  A "crop" does not include trees or nuts or
 6   fruit grown on trees; sod; shrubs; greenhouse plants;
 7   or plants or plant parts produced for precommercial,
 8   experimental, or research purposes.
 9     8.  "Farmland" means agricultural land suitable for
10   use in farming as defined in section 9H.1.
11     9.  "Livestock" means beef cattle, dairy cattle,
12   sheep, or swine.
13     10.  "Open feedlot" means the same as defined in
14   section 8E.1.
15     11.  "Personal representative" means a person who
16   is authorized by a contract producer to act on behalf
17   of the contract producer, including by executing an
18   agreement, managing a contract operation, or filing
19   and enforcing a lien as provided in this chapter.
20     12.  "Processor" means a person engaged in the
21   business of manufacturing goods from commodities,
22   including by slaughtering or processing livestock,
23   processing raw milk, or processing crops.
24     13.  "Produce" means to do any of the following:
25     a.  Provide feed or services relating to the care
26   and feeding of livestock.  If the livestock is dairy
27   cattle, "produce" includes milking the dairy cattle
28   and storing raw milk at the contract producer's
29   contract livestock facility.
30     b.  Provide for planting, raising, harvesting, and
31   storing crop.  "Produce" includes preparing the soil
32   for planting and nurturing the crop by the application
33   of fertilizers or soil conditioners as defined in
34   section 200.3 or pesticides as defined in section
35   206.2.
36     14.  "Production contract" means an oral or written
37   agreement executed pursuant to section 579B.2 that
38   provides for the production of a commodity by a
39   contract producer.

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