Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 202 - Commodity Production Contracts

• 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. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Commodity: means livestock, raw milk, or a crop. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract crop field: means farmland where a crop is produced according to a production contract executed pursuant to section 202. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Contract livestock facility: includes a confinement feeding operation as defined in section 459. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Contract operation: means a contract livestock facility or contract crop field. See Iowa Code 202.1
• 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. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Contractor: means an active contractor or a passive contractor. See Iowa Code 202.1
• 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. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Farmland: means agricultural land that is suitable for use in farming as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Feedlot: means a lot, yard, corral, or other area in which livestock are confined, primarily for the purposes of feeding and growth prior to slaughter. See Iowa Code 172D.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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Livestock: means beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, or swine. See Iowa Code 202.1
• 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. See Iowa Code 202.1
• person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Production contract: means an oral or written agreement executed pursuant to section 202. See Iowa Code 202.1
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.