§ 185C.1 — Definitions

Iowa § 185C.1

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title V: AGRICULTURE
• Ch. 185C: CORN PROMOTION BOARD

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As used in this chapter:
1. “Assessment” means a state or federal assessment.
2. “Board” means the Iowa corn promotion board established by this chapter.
3. “Bushel” means fifty-six pounds of corn by weight.
4. “Corn” means and includes all kinds of varieties of corn marketed or sold as corn by
the producer but shall not include sweet corn or popcorn or seed corn.
5. “Director” means a district elected director or a board elected director as provided in
section 185C.6.
6. “District” means an official crop reporting district formed by the United States
department of agriculture for use on January 1, 2013, and set out in the annual farm census
published in that year by the department of agriculture and land stewardship.
7. “Federal assessment” means a federal excise tax or other charge which is imposed for
purposes related to market development.
8. “First purchaser” means a person, public or private corporation, governmental
subdivision, association, cooperative, partnership, commercial buyer, dealer, or processor
who purchases corn 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 corn purchased for the
purchaser’s personal consumption.
9. “Market development” means to engage in research and educational programs
directed toward better and more efficient utilization of corn; to provide methods and
means, including but not limited to, public relations and other promotion techniques for the
maintenance of present markets; to provide for the development of new or larger domestic
and foreign markets; and to provide for the prevention, modification, or elimination of trade
barriers which obstruct the free flow of corn.
10. “Marketed in this state” refers to a sale of corn to a first purchaser who is a resident
of or doing business in this state where actual delivery of the corn occurs in this state.
11. “Marketingyear”meansthetwelve-monthperiodbeginningthefirstdayofSeptember
and ending on the following thirty-first day of August.
12. “Producer” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or association
engaged in this state in the business of producing and marketing in their name at least two
hundred fifty bushels of corn in the previous marketing year.
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13. “Promotional order” means an order pursuant to this chapter which provides for the
administration of this chapter and provides for a state assessment necessary to provide for
its administration.
14. “Qualified financial institution” means a bank or credit union as defined in section
12C.1.
15. “Sale” or “purchase” may, to the extent determined by the board, include the pledge
or other encumbrance of corn as security for a loan extended under a federal price support
loan program. Actual delivery of the corn occurs when the corn is pledged or otherwise
encumbered to secure the loan. The purchase price of the corn is the principal amount of
the loan extended and the purchase invoice for the corn is the documentation required for
extension of the loan.
16. “Secretary” means the secretary of agriculture.
17. “State assessment” means a state excise tax on each bushel of corn marketed in this
state which is imposed as part of a promotional order to administer this chapter.

Legislative History

[C77, 79, 81, §185C.1]