159.20 - POWERS OF DEPARTMENT.
159.20 POWERS OF DEPARTMENT.
1. The department shall perform duties designed to lead to more
advantageous marketing of Iowa agricultural commodities. The
department may do any of the following:
a. Investigate the marketing of agricultural commodities.
b. Promote the sale, distribution, and merchandising of
agricultural commodities.
c. Furnish information and assistance concerning agricultural
commodities to the public.
d. Cooperate with the college of agriculture and life
sciences of the Iowa state university of science and technology in
encouraging agricultural marketing education and research.
e. Accumulate and diffuse information concerning the
marketing of agricultural commodities in cooperation with persons,
agencies, or the federal government.
f. Investigate methods and practices related to the
processing, handling, grading, classifying, sorting, weighing,
packing, transportation, storage, inspection, or merchandising of
agricultural commodities within this state.
g. Ascertain sources of supply for Iowa agricultural
commodities. The department shall prepare and periodically publish
lists of names and addresses of producers and consignors of
agricultural commodities.
h. Perform inspection or grading of an agricultural commodity
if requested by a person engaged in the production, marketing, or
processing of the agricultural commodity. However, the person must
pay for the services as provided by rules adopted by the department.
i. Cooperate with the Iowa department of economic development
to avoid duplication of efforts between the department and the
agricultural marketing program operated by the Iowa department of
economic development.
j. Assist the office of renewable fuels and coproducts and
the renewable fuels and coproducts advisory committee in
administering the provisions of chapter 159A.
2. As used in this subchapter:
a. "Agricultural commodity" means any unprocessed
agricultural product, including animals, agricultural crops, and
forestry products grown, raised, produced, or fed in Iowa for sale in
commercial channels.
b. "Commercial channels" means the processes for sale of an
agricultural commodity or unprocessed product from the agricultural
commodity to any person, public or private, who resells the
agricultural commodity for breeding, processing, slaughter, or
distribution. Section History: Early Form
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 159.20] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 610; 91 Acts, ch 254, § 4; 92 Acts, ch 1163, §
39; 92 Acts, ch 1239, § 26--28; 94 Acts, ch 1119, §10; 98 Acts, ch
1032, § 3; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §27; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §58
Agricultural products advisory council, see § 15.203