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As used in this chapter:
1.“Association” means the Iowa soybean association as recognized in section 185.1A.
2.“Board” means the Iowa soybean association board of directors established by this
chapter.
3.“Bushel” means sixty pounds of soybeans by weight.
4.“District” means an official crop reporting district formed by the United States
department of agriculture and set out in the annual farm census published by the Iowa
department of agriculture and land stewardship.
5.“First purchaser” means a person, public or private corporation, governmental
subdivision, association, cooperative, partnership, commercial buyer, dealer, or processor
who purchases soybeans from a producer for the first time for any purpose except to feed it
to the purchaser’s livestock or to manufacture a product fro
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As used in this chapter:
1. “Association” means the Iowa soybean association as recognized in section 185.1A.
2. “Board” means the Iowa soybean association board of directors established by this
chapter.
3. “Bushel” means sixty pounds of soybeans by weight.
4. “District” means an official crop reporting district formed by the United States
department of agriculture and set out in the annual farm census published by the Iowa
department of agriculture and land stewardship.
5. “First purchaser” means a person, public or private corporation, governmental
subdivision, association, cooperative, partnership, commercial buyer, dealer, or processor
who purchases soybeans from a producer for the first time for any purpose except to feed it
to the purchaser’s livestock or to manufacture a product from the soybeans purchased for
the purchaser’s personal consumption.
6. “Influencing legislation” means the same as defined in 26 C.F.R. §56.4911 as that section
exists on July 1, 2005.
7. “Marketdevelopment” means to engage in research and educational programs directed
toward better and more efficient production and utilization of soybeans; to provide methods
and means, including but not limited to, public relations and other promotion techniques for
themaintenanceofpresentmarkets; toprovideforthedevelopmentofneworlargerdomestic
and foreign markets; and to provide for the prevention, modification, or elimination of trade
barriers which obstruct the free flow of soybeans.
8. “Marketedinthisstate”referstoasaleofsoybeanstoafirstpurchaserwhoisaresident
of or doing business in this state where actual delivery of the soybeans occurs in this state.
9. “National assessment” means the assessment on soybeans collected pursuant to 7
U.S.C. ch. 92.
10. “Net market price” means the sales price received by a producer for soybeans after
adjustments for any premium or discount based on grading or quality factors.
11. “Producer” means a person engaged in this state in the business of producing and
marketing in the person’s name at least two hundred fifty bushels of soybeans in the previous
year.
12. “Promotional order” means an order administered pursuant to this chapter which
establishes a program for the promotion, research, and market development of soybeans
and provides for a state assessment to finance the program.
13. “Qualified financial institution” means a bank or credit union as defined in section
12C.1.
14. “Sale” or “purchase” includes but is not limited to the pledge or other encumbrance
of soybeans as security for a loan extended under a federal price support loan program. Sale
andactualdeliveryofthesoybeansunderthefederalpricesupportloanprogramoccurswhen
the soybeans are marketed following redemption by the producer or when the soybeans are
forfeited in lieu of loan repayment. If the soybeans are forfeited in lieu of repayment, the
purchase price of the soybeans is the principal amount of the loan extended and the state
assessment shall be collected at the time of loan settlement.
15. “Secretary” means the secretary of agriculture.
16. “Soybeans” means and includes all kinds of varieties of soybeans marketed or sold as
soybeans by the producer.
17. “State assessment” or “assessment” means an excise tax on each bushel of soybeans
marketed in this state which is imposed pursuant to a promotional order as provided in this
chapter.