202.1 - DEFINITIONS.
202.1 DEFINITIONS.
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. "Passive contractor" means a person who furnishes
management services to a contract producer, and who does not own a
commodity that is produced by the contract producer at the 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 relating to the care and feeding
of livestock. 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 fertilizers or soil
conditioners as defined in section 200.3 or pesticides 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. Section History: Recent Form
99 Acts, ch 169, §2, 22--24; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §20, 21
Referred to in § 459A.103, 459B.103