{"data":{"id":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-11-41-102","jurisdiction":"us-wy","citation":"Wyo. Stat. § 11-41-102","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a) As used in this chapter:\n(i) \"Action\" means a court action 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 real property. \"Action\" also includes any matter filed in a court of law or before an agency by a party to resolve a dispute;\n(ii) \"Agricultural property\" means real property that is used principally for farming or ranching, real property that is a farmer's principal residence and any land contiguous to the residence, personal property that is used as security to finance farming or personal property that is used for farming;\n(iii) \"Board\" means the agriculture and natural resource mediation board;\n(iv) \"Creditor\" means any person who holds a mortgage on or is a vendor of a land contract for agricultural property, who has a lien on or security interest in agricultural property or who is a judgment creditor with a judgment against a farmer affecting the farmer's agricultural property;\n(v) \"Farmer or rancher\" means a person engaged in farming or ranching who owns or leases a total of sixty (60) acres or more of land that is agricultural property and whose gross sales of farm products for the preceding year equaled twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) or more;\n(vi) \"Farming or ranching\" means the employment and operation of real property for the production of agricultural products, including but not limited to:\n(A) Raising, harvesting and selling crops, hay and other products of the soil;\n(B) Feeding, breeding, management and sale of livestock, poultry, fur bearing animals or honeybees, or the produce thereof; or\n(C) Dairying and the sale of dairy products.\n(vii) \"Mediation\" means the act of a neutral person in intermediating between or among contending parties with a view to assisting them to adjust or settle their dispute by mutual agreement;\n(viii) \"Parties\" means the primary decision makers engaged in the mediation process;\n(ix) \"Standing\" means a person that is given the authority to enter into a mediation process by the board.","path":["TITLE 11 - AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND OTHER ANIMALS","CHAPTER 41 AGRICULTURE MEDIATION SERVICE"],"source_url":"https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title11.pdf","current_through":"2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:16:32Z","sha256":"0fdd33399a9eb4d18a1e6aba8a193d6c1b633cf8ae766b091c4395655f26bc18","source_id":"us-wy","stale":false,"prev":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-11-41-101","next":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-11-41-103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}