Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-18-271

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As used in the Oklahoma Oilseed Resources Act:

1. "Commercial channels" means the sale of oilseed for any use,

when sold to any commercial buyer, dealer, processor, cooperative,

or to any person, public or private, who resells any oilseed or

product produced from oilseed;

2. "Commercial quantities" means and includes all

hundredweights (CWT) of oilseed produced for market in any calendar

year by any producer;

3. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Oilseed 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 oilseed from an oilseed producer. A

mortgagee, pledgee, lienholder, or other person having a claim

against the oilseed producer under a nonrecourse loan made against

the oilseed 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;

7. "Oilseed" means any seed or crop grown primarily or mainly

for oil; and

8. "Oilseed producer" or "producer" means an individual engaged

in the production of oilseed, who markets oilseed 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 an oilseed

producer.

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