{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-1007.12","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 1007.12","heading":"Producer.","body":"(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, producer means any person who produces milk approved by a duly constituted regulatory agency for fluid consumption as Grade A milk and whose milk (or components of milk) is:\n(1) Received at a pool plant directly from the producer or diverted by the plant operator in accordance with § 1007.13; or\n(2) Received by a handler described in § 1000.9(c).\n(b) Producer shall not include:\n(1) A producer-handler as defined in any Federal order;\n(2) A dairy farmer whose milk is received at an exempt plant, excluding producer milk diverted to the exempt plant pursuant to § 1007.13(d);\n(3) A dairy farmer whose milk is received by diversion at a pool plant from a handler regulated under another Federal order if the other Federal order designates the dairy farmer as a producer under that order and that milk is allocated by request to a utilization other than Class I; and\n(4) A dairy farmer whose milk is reported as diverted to a plant fully regulated under another Federal order with respect to that portion of the milk so diverted that is assigned to Class I under the provisions of such other order.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER X—AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MILK), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","PART 1007—MILK IN THE SOUTHEAST MARKETING AREA","Subpart—Order Regulating Handling"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"666693ed00d688fe68915bf7c71452689ff3437e7eded141c104c09340aaf1dc","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-1007.11","next":"us/7-cfr-1007.13"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}