Ohio Code 905.01 – Agricultural additive definitions
As used in sections 905.01 to 905.11 of the Revised Code:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 905.01
- agriculture: includes farming; ranching; aquaculture; algaculture meaning the farming of algae; apiculture and related apicultural activities, production of honey, beeswax, honeycomb, and other related products; horticulture; viticulture, winemaking, and related activities; animal husbandry, including, but not limited to, the care and raising of livestock, equine, and fur-bearing animals; poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products; dairy production; the production of field crops, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers, sod, or mushrooms; timber; pasturage; any combination of the foregoing; the processing, drying, storage, and marketing of agricultural products when those activities are conducted in conjunction with, but are secondary to, such husbandry or production; and any additions or modifications to the foregoing made by the director of agriculture by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code. See Ohio Code 1.61
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
(A) “Distributor” means a person who offers for sale, sells, trades, or supplies an agricultural additive.
(B) “Manufacturer” means a person who mines, extracts, processes, refines, blends, or mixes an agricultural additive.
(C) “Registrant” means the manufacturer who registers an agricultural additive under sections 905.01 to 905.11 of the Revised Code.
(D) “Agricultural additive” means any substance or mixture that is intended to improve for agricultural production purposes the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of soil or other growth medium or to improve otherwise crop production, plant growth, product quality, or yield prior to harvest, but excludes fertilizers, agricultural liming materials, pesticides, fertilizer pesticide mixtures, rhizobial inoculants, peat, peat moss, pine bark, gypsum, perlite, sand, unmanipulated animal or vegetable manures, mulches, and any other substances or mixtures that are excluded from this definition by rule of the director of agriculture.
(E) “Active ingredient” means any ingredient from which an agricultural additive derives all or part of its value or effectiveness and that is defined in the current edition of Merck’s Chemical Index or recorded in Chemical Abstracts.
(F) “Inert ingredient” means an ingredient that is not active.