The following terms have the meaning given to them.
"Agricultural commodity" includes all agricultural goods produced by associations for marketing individually or collectively under contract with handlers, and consists of any materials produced for but not limited to use in or as food, feed, seed, or fiber, and includes but is not limited to crops for fiber, food, oil seeds, seeds, livestock, livestock products, poultry, poultry products, and other products or by-products of the farm produced for the same or similar use.
"Marketing year" means, generally, any time between the second day of February of the previous calendar year and the first day of February of the subsequent year, unless the commissioner, pursuant to part 1500.3600, determines an alternative time period for a specific agricultural commodity to be designated as its marketing year.
Minn. R. agency 105, ch. 1500, MARKETING AND BARGAINING, pt. 1500.3300
Statutory Authority: MS s 17.701