An agricultural supply dealer who provides an agricultural supply to a farmer shall have an agricultural lien as provided in section 554.9102. The agricultural supply dealer is a secured party and the farmer is a debtor for purposes of chapter 554, article 9. The amount of the lien shall be the amount owed to the agricultural supply dealer for the retail cost of the agricultural supply, including labor provided. The lien applies to all of the following:
 1. Crops which are produced upon the land to which the agricultural chemical was applied, produced from the seed provided, or produced using the petroleum product provided. The lien shall not apply to any crops so produced upon the land after four hundred ninety days from the date that the farmer purchased the agricultural supply.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 570A.3

  • Agricultural chemical: means a fertilizer or agricultural chemical which is applied to crops or land which is used for the raising of crops, including but not limited to fertilizer as defined in section 200. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • Agricultural supply: means an agricultural chemical, seed, feed, or a petroleum product that is used for an agricultural purpose. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • dealer: means a person engaged in the retail sale of agricultural chemicals, seed, feed, or petroleum products used for an agricultural purpose. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • Farmer: means a person engaged in a business which has an agricultural purpose. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • Feed: means a commercial feed, feed ingredient, mineral feed, drug, animal health product, or customer-formula feed which is used for the feeding of livestock, including but not limited to feed as defined in section 198. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Labor: means labor performed in the application, delivery, or preparation of a product defined in subsections 1, 8, 14, and 16. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • lien: means the agricultural supply dealer lien created in section 570A. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • Livestock: means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species, ostriches, rheas, emus, poultry, or fish or shellfish. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • Petroleum product: means a motor fuel or special fuel which is used in the production of crops or livestock, including but not limited to motor fuel as defined in section 452A. See Iowa Code 570A.1
  • Seed: means agricultural seeds which are used in the production of crops, including but not limited to agricultural seed as defined in section 199. See Iowa Code 570A.1
 2. Livestock consuming the feed. However, the lien does not apply to that portion of the livestock of a farmer who has paid all amounts due from the farmer for the retail cost, including labor, of the feed.
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