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 State Department of Agriculture;

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. "Fiscal year" means the sorghum accounting year beginning July 1 of each year and ending June 30 of the following year;

7. "President" means the President of the State Board of Agriculture;

8. "Sorghum processor" means a person who commercially manufactures products made from grain sorghum or animal feed; and

9. "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.

Historical Data

Laws 1997, SB 45, c. 151, § 2, eff. April 25, 1997; Amended by Laws 2001, HB 1378, c. 146, § 135, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001 ( superseded document available ); Renumbered from 2 O.S. § 1850.2 by Laws 2001, HB 1378, c. 146, § 266, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001.