Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-5-63.2: Definitions

As used in the Commodity Research Enhancement 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, rice, 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 federally approved commodity board;

3. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Oklahoma

Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

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

of a board;

5. "Federally approved commodity board" means a board organized

and sanctioned by the United States Department of Agriculture to

receive a federal assessment for the specific commodity;

6. "Nonprofit commodity organization" means any organization

representing commodity producers with the ability to seek a state

assessment and designate a federally approved commodity board as the

recipient;

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

association, or any other business entity;

8. "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;

9. "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; and

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

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

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