Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-18-241
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Definitions
Official statutory text
As used in the Oklahoma Sorghum Resources Act:
1. "Commercial channels" means the sale of sorghum for any use,
when sold to any commercial buyer, dealer, processor, cooperative,
or to any person, public or private, who resells any sorghum or
product produced from sorghum;
2. "Commercial quantities" means and includes all bushels of
sorghum produced for market in any calendar year by any producer;
3. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Sorghum Commission;
4. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,
Food, and Forestry;
5. "First purchaser" means any person buying or acquiring after
harvest the property in or to sorghum from a sorghum producer. A
mortgagee, pledgee, lienholder, or other person having a claim
against the sorghum producer under a nonrecourse loan made against
the sorghum after harvest shall be a purchaser. The term "first
purchaser" shall not include a harvesting or threshing lienee;
6. "President" means the President of the State Board of
Agriculture; and
7. "Sorghum producer" or "producer" means an individual engaged
in the production of sorghum, who markets sorghum in commercial
quantities in Oklahoma. Each individual determined to be an entity
pursuant to rules promulgated by the United States Department of
Agriculture Farm Service Agency shall be considered a sorghum
producer.
1. "Commercial channels" means the sale of sorghum for any use,
when sold to any commercial buyer, dealer, processor, cooperative,
or to any person, public or private, who resells any sorghum or
product produced from sorghum;
2. "Commercial quantities" means and includes all bushels of
sorghum produced for market in any calendar year by any producer;
3. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Sorghum Commission;
4. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,
Food, and Forestry;
5. "First purchaser" means any person buying or acquiring after
harvest the property in or to sorghum from a sorghum producer. A
mortgagee, pledgee, lienholder, or other person having a claim
against the sorghum producer under a nonrecourse loan made against
the sorghum after harvest shall be a purchaser. The term "first
purchaser" shall not include a harvesting or threshing lienee;
6. "President" means the President of the State Board of
Agriculture; and
7. "Sorghum producer" or "producer" means an individual engaged
in the production of sorghum, who markets sorghum in commercial
quantities in Oklahoma. Each individual determined to be an entity
pursuant to rules promulgated by the United States Department of
Agriculture Farm Service Agency shall be considered a sorghum
producer.
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