As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Active contractor” means a person who owns a commodity that is produced by a
contract producer at the contract producer’s contract operation pursuant to a production
contract executed pursuant to section 202.2.
2.“Commodity” means livestock, raw milk, or a crop.
3.“Contract crop field” means farmland where a crop is produced according to a
production contract executed pursuant to section 202.2 by a contract producer who holds a
legal interest in the farmland.
4.“Contract livestock facility” means an animal feeding operation as defined in section
459.102, in which livestock or raw milk is produced according to a production contract
executed pursuant to section 202.2 by a contract producer who holds a legal interest in
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Active contractor” means a person who owns a commodity that is produced by a
contract producer at the contract producer’s contract operation pursuant to a production
contract executed pursuant to section 202.2.
2. “Commodity” means livestock, raw milk, or a crop.
3. “Contract crop field” means farmland where a crop is produced according to a
production contract executed pursuant to section 202.2 by a contract producer who holds a
legal interest in the farmland.
4. “Contract livestock facility” means an animal feeding operation as defined in section
459.102, in which livestock or raw milk is produced according to a production contract
executed pursuant to section 202.2 by a contract producer who holds a legal interest in
the animal feeding operation. “Contract livestock facility” includes a confinement feeding
operation as defined in section 459.102, an open feedlot operation as defined in section
459A.102, or an area which is used for the raising of crops or other vegetation and upon
which livestock is fed for slaughter or is allowed to graze or feed.
5. “Contract operation” means a contract livestock facility or contract crop field.
6. “Contract producer” means a person who holds a legal interest in a contract operation
and who produces a commodity at the contract producer’s contract operation under a
production contract executed pursuant to section 202.2.
7. “Contractor” means an active contractor or a passive contractor.
8. a. “Crop” means a plant used for food, animal feed, fiber, or oil, if the plant is classified
as a forage or cereal plant, including but not limited to alfalfa, barley, buckwheat, corn, flax,
forage, millet, oats, popcorn, rye, sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers, wheat, and grasses used
for forage or silage.
b. A “crop” does not include trees or nuts or fruit grown on trees; sod; shrubs; greenhouse
plants; or plants or plant parts produced for precommercial, experimental, or research
purposes.
9. “Farmland” means agricultural land that is suitable for use in farming as defined in
section 9H.1.
10. “Livestock” means beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, or swine.
11. “Passivecontractor”meansapersonwhofurnishesmanagementservicestoacontract
producer, andwhodoesnotownacommoditythatisproducedbythecontractproduceratthe
contract producer’s contract operation according to a production contract which is executed
pursuant to section 202.2.
12. “Produce” means to do any of the following:
a. Provide feed or services as part of the livestock’s care and feeding. If the livestock is
dairy cattle, “produce” includes milking the dairy cattle and storing raw milk at the contract
producer’s contract livestock facility.
b. Provide for planting, raising, harvesting, and storing a crop. “Produce” includes
preparing the soil for planting and nurturing the crop by the application of a fertilizer or
beneficial substance as defined in section 200.3 or a pesticide as defined in section 206.2.
13. “Production contract” means an oral or written agreement executed pursuant
to section 202.2 that provides for the production of a commodity or the provision of
management services relating to the production of a commodity by a contract producer.