§ 29-8-101 — Definitions

Wyoming § 29-8-101

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 29: Liens
• Ch. 8: AGRICULTURAL PRODUCER'S LIENS

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(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Commodity dealer" means a person who engages in
a business involving or, as part of the business, participates
in buying, exchanging, negotiating or soliciting the sale,
resale, exchange, production or transfer of any farm product in
the state of Wyoming. The term does not include:
(A) A person engaged solely in storing, shipping
or handling farm products for hire;
(B) A person who buys farm products from a
licensed commodity dealer;
(C) A person who does not purchase more than
thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) worth of farm products from
producers during a licensing year;
(D) A person who is the producer of farm
products that the person actually plants, nurtures and harvests;
(E) A person whose trading in farm products is
limited to trading in commodity futures on a recognized futures
exchange; or
(F) A person who buys farm products used
exclusively for the feeding of livestock and not for resale.
(ii) "Contractor" means a person who owns a farm
product that is produced by a producer according to a contract;
(iii) "Farm products" means all crops, crop products,
plants or portions thereof, whether or not they are cleaned,
processed, treated, reconditioned, rolled, mixed or combined in
any fashion. Farm products shall not mean livestock;
(iv) "Person" means an individual, trust,
partnership, business trust, corporation or unincorporated
association or any other legal or commercial entity;
(v) "Processor" means any person engaged in the
business of processing or manufacturing any farm product and who
takes possession or control of any farm product for the purpose
of processing, cleaning, selling or storing it;
(vi) "Producer" means the owner, tenant or operator
of land located in the state of Wyoming who has an interest in
or receives all or part of the proceeds from the assignment,
sale, transfer, exchange or production of farm products grown or
produced on that land;
(vii) "Public warehouse" or "warehouse" means an
elevator, mill, warehouse, subterminal grain warehouse, public
warehouse or other structure or facility in which, for
compensation, farm products are received for storage, handling,
processing or shipment. The term includes facilities that
commingle different lots of farm products;
(viii) "This act" means W.S. 29-8-101 through