The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Authenticate" means to sign or with present intent to adopt or accept a record, to attach to, or logically associate with the record, an electronic sound, symbol, or process.
(2) "Producer" means any person engaged in the business of growing or producing any agricultural product, whether as the owner of the products, or producing the products for others holding the title thereof.
(3) "Seed bailment contract" means any bailment contract for the increase in agricultural seeds where the bailor retains the title to seed, seed stock, plant life, and the seed crop resulting therefrom.
(4) "Turfgrass seed" means Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, hard fescue, slender fescue, and creeping red fescue. Forage fescue and reclamation grass seed are excluded from this order.
(5) "Turf seed dealer" means a person that in the ordinary course of business contracts to buy turfgrass seed grown in this state by a producer or contracts with a producer for the growing of turfgrass seed in this state. "Turf seed dealer" does not include a common carrier used to transport an agricultural commodity.
(6) "Turf seed producer" means a person that grows turfgrass seed in this state on a commercial basis without entering into a contract with a turf seed dealer before harvesting of the seed.
(7) "Turf seed production contract" means a written agreement between a producer and a turf seed dealer for the growing of turfgrass seed in this state.
(8) "Turf seed purchase contract" means a written agreement for a turf seed dealer to purchase turfgrass seed that has been grown by a turf seed producer. "Turf seed purchase contract" does not include a seed production contract.
(9) "Variety not stated seed" means seed that is sold in unmarked plastic bags or other unmarked containers without any reference to a variety name for the seed.
[ 2025 c 117 s 1.]