As used in the Oklahoma Oilseed Resources Act: 1. "Commercial channels" means the sale of oilseed for any use, when sold to any commercial buyer, dealer, processor, cooperative, or to any person, public or private, who resells any oilseed or product produced from oilseed; 2. "Commercial quantities" means and includes all hundredweights (CWT) of oilseed produced for market in any calendar year by any producer; 3. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Oilseed Commission; 4. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry; 5. "First purchaser" means any person buying or acquiring after harvest the property in or to oilseed from an oilseed producer. A mortgagee, pledgee, lienholder, or other person having a claim against the oilseed producer under a nonrecourse loan made against the oilseed after harvest shall be a purchaser. The term "first purchaser" shall not include a harvesting or threshing lienee; 6. "President" means the President of the State Board of Agriculture; 7. "Oilseed" means any seed or crop grown primarily or mainly for oil; and 8. "Oilseed producer" or "producer" means an individual engaged in the production of oilseed, who markets oilseed in commercial quantities in Oklahoma. Each individual determined to be an entity pursuant to rules promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency shall be considered an oilseed producer.
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