Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-5-60.12

As used in the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Act:

1. "Agricultural commodity" means an agricultural commodity,

horticultural commodity, silvicultural commodity, or agricultural

product, horticultural product, viticulture, or silvicultural

product, or bees and honey, planting seed, livestock or livestock

product, or poultry or poultry product produced in this state,

either in its natural state or as processed by the producer;

2. "Board" means an agricultural commodity producers board of a

certified organization or a successor organization;

3. "Certified organization" means the agricultural commodity

entity certified by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food,

and Forestry to conduct a referendum;

4. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Oklahoma

Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

5. "District" means a geographical area within the jurisdiction

of a board;

6. "Person" means an individual, firm, corporation,

association, or any other business entity;

7. "Processor" means a person who:

a. is a purchaser, warehouseman, processor, or other

commercial handler of an agricultural commodity, or

b. is engaged in the operation of packing, grading,

selling, offering for sale or marketing any

agricultural commodity in commercial quantities as

defined in a marketing program, who as owner, agent,

or otherwise, ships or causes agricultural commodities

to be shipped;

8. "Producer" means a person engaged in the business of

producing or causing to be produced for commercial purposes an

agricultural commodity. The term "producer" includes the owner of a

farm on which the commodity is produced and the owner's tenant or

sharecropper;

9. "Successor organization" means the agricultural commodity

entity approved by the Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of

Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to succeed an existing statutory

commodity producers board; and

10. "Volume of production" shall be defined by the certified

organization and can refer to units of product sold such as pounds,

tons, bushels, gallons, flats, containers, packages, or other

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commonly recognized units of measure, square footage or acreage of

production space or other appropriate measurement units, or number

of production units such as trees, vines, head count of livestock or

poultry, or other commonly recognized measurement units, or gross

sales.