{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-2-7-102","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 2-7-102","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) (A) \"Action\" means a court action or legal recourse to the courts of the State of Arkansas by a creditor against a farmer for payment of a debt, to enforce or foreclose a security interest, lien, or mortgage, or to repossess or declare a creditor's interest in agricultural property. (B) \"Action\" includes, but is not limited to, garnishment, replevin, foreclosure, execution of judgment, and involuntary receivership; (2) \"Agricultural property\" means all of the following: (A) Real property that is used principally for farming or ranching; (B) Real property that is a farmer's principal place of residence and any land contiguous to the residence; (C) Personal property that is used as security to finance farming or ranching; and (D) Personal property that is used for farming or ranching; (3) \"Creditor\" means any person who holds a mortgage on agricultural property, who has a lien on or a security interest in agricultural property, or who is a judgment creditor with a judgment against a farmer affecting the farmer's agricultural property; (4) \"Farmer\" means any person who is engaged in farming or ranching, who has at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in outstanding agricultural loans that are secured by real estate, crops, livestock, farm machinery, or other agricultural supplies, and who either: (A) Owns or leases a total of fifty (50) acres or more of land that is agricultural property; or (B) Has had gross sales of farm products of at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in any of the preceding three (3) years; (5) \"Farming\" or \"ranching\" means the employment or operation of real property for the production of agricultural products including, but not limited to, the following: (A) The production or cultivation of agricultural, horticultural, or aquacultural commodities such as field crops, rice, soybeans, cotton, sorghum, corn, wheat, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, nursery stock, ornamental trees, sod, or flowers; (B) Animal or poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products, livestock, equine or fur-bearing animals and wildlife, including the raising, breeding, shearing, grazing, or other feeding of these animals; (C) Dairy production; (D) Viticulture, wine-making, and related activities; and (E) On-site storing, handling, and processing incidental to the production of the foregoing agricultural or horticultural products and commodities; (6) \"Mediation\" means the process in which a neutral person or persons intermediate between or among parties for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of their dispute by mutual agreement; and (7) \"Party\" or \"parties\" means, with respect to the mediation of a dispute affecting a farmer's agricultural property, the farmer, a creditor of the farmer, and any other person necessary to the resolution of a dispute or an action. Acts 1989, No. 829, § 2.\n\nAs used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1) (A) \"Action\" means a court action or legal recourse to the courts of the State of Arkansas by a creditor against a farmer for payment of a debt, to enforce or foreclose a security interest, lien, or mortgage, or to repossess or declare a creditor's interest in agricultural property. (B) \"Action\" includes, but is not limited to, garnishment, replevin, foreclosure, execution of judgment, and involuntary receivership;\n\n(A) \"Action\" means a court action or legal recourse to the courts of the State of Arkansas by a creditor against a farmer for payment of a debt, to enforce or foreclose a security interest, lien, or mortgage, or to repossess or declare a creditor's interest in agricultural property.\n\n(B) \"Action\" includes, but is not limited to, garnishment, replevin, foreclosure, execution of judgment, and involuntary receivership;\na court action or legal recourse to the courts of the State of Arkansas by a creditor against a farmer for payment of a debt, to enforce or foreclose a security interest, lien, or mortgage, or to repossess or declare a creditor's interest in agricultural property.\n\n(B) \"Action\" includes, but is not limited to, garnishment, replevin, foreclosure, execution of judgment, and involuntary receivership;\n\n(2) \"Agricultural property\" means all of the following: (A) Real property that is used principally for farming or ranching; (B) Real property that is a farmer's principal place of residence and any land contiguous to the residence; (C) Personal property that is used as security to finance farming or ranching; and (D) Personal property that is used for farming or ranching;\n\n(A) Real property that is used principally for farming or ranching;\n\n(B) Real property that is a farmer's principal place of residence and any land contiguous to the residence;\n\n(C) Personal property that is used as security to finance farming or ranching; and\n\n(D) Personal property that is used for farming or ranching;\n\n(3) \"Creditor\" means any person who holds a mortgage on agricultural property, who has a lien on or a security interest in agricultural property, or who is a judgment creditor with a judgment against a farmer affecting the farmer's agricultural property;\n\n(4) \"Farmer\" means any person who is engaged in farming or ranching, who has at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in outstanding agricultural loans that are secured by real estate, crops, livestock, farm machinery, or other agricultural supplies, and who either: (A) Owns or leases a total of fifty (50) acres or more of land that is agricultural property; or (B) Has had gross sales of farm products of at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in any of the preceding three (3) years;\n\n(A) Owns or leases a total of fifty (50) acres or more of land that is agricultural property; or\n\n(B) Has had gross sales of farm products of at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in any of the preceding three (3) years;\n\n(5) \"Farming\" or \"ranching\" means the employment or operation of real property for the production of agricultural products including, but not limited to, the following: (A) The production or cultivation of agricultural, horticultural, or aquacultural commodities such as field crops, rice, soybeans, cotton, sorghum, corn, wheat, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, nursery stock, ornamental trees, sod, or flowers; (B) Animal or poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products, livestock, equine or fur-bearing animals and wildlife, including the raising, breeding, shearing, grazing, or other feeding of these animals; (C) Dairy production; (D) Viticulture, wine-making, and related activities; and (E) On-site storing, handling, and processing incidental to the production of the foregoing agricultural or horticultural products and commodities;\n\n(A) The production or cultivation of agricultural, horticultural, or aquacultural commodities such as field crops, rice, soybeans, cotton, sorghum, corn, wheat, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, nursery stock, ornamental trees, sod, or flowers;\n\n(B) Animal or poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products, livestock, equine or fur-bearing animals and wildlife, including the raising, breeding, shearing, grazing, or other feeding of these animals;\n\n(C) Dairy production;\n\n(D) Viticulture, wine-making, and related activities; and\n\n(E) On-site storing, handling, and processing incidental to the production of the foregoing agricultural or horticultural products and commodities;\n\n(6) \"Mediation\" means the process in which a neutral person or persons intermediate between or among parties for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of their dispute by mutual agreement; and\niticulture, wine-making, and related activities; and\n\n(E) On-site storing, handling, and processing incidental to the production of the foregoing agricultural or horticultural products and commodities;\n\n(6) \"Mediation\" means the process in which a neutral person or persons intermediate between or among parties for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of their dispute by mutual agreement; and\n\n(7) \"Party\" or \"parties\" means, with respect to the mediation of a dispute affecting a farmer's agricultural property, the farmer, a creditor of the farmer, and any other person necessary to the resolution of a dispute or an action.","path":["AR Code","Title 2","Chapter 7","Subchapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"65f10262438f373121831071ceec631017217ceb9cff2f62cfe4c8c72cd3f192","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-2-7-101","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-2-7-201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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