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§ 1518. “Agricultural commodity” defined

“Agricultural commodity”, as used in this subchapter, means wheat, cotton, flax, corn, dry beans, oats, barley, rye, tobacco, rice, peanuts, soybeans, sugar beets, sugar cane, tomatoes, grain sorghum, sunflowers, raisins, oranges, sweet corn, dry peas, freezing and canning peas, forage, apples, grapes, potatoes, timber and forests, nursery crops, citrus, and other fruits and vegetables, nuts, tame hay, native grass, hemp, aquacultural species (including, but not limited to, any species of finfish, mollusk, crustacean, or other aquatic invertebrate, amphibian, reptile, or aquatic plant propagated or reared in a controlled or selected environment), or any other agricultural commodity, excluding stored grain, determined by the Board, or any one or more of such commodities, as the context may indicate.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 518, as added June 21, 1941, ch. 214, § 9, 55 Stat. 256; amended Dec. 23, 1944, ch. 713, § 4, 58 Stat. 919; Aug. 25, 1949, ch. 512, § 9, 63 Stat. 665; Pub. L. 96–365, title I, § 111, Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1319; Pub. L. 102–237, title VI, § 601(6), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1878; Pub. L. 103–354, title I, § 119(f)(3), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3208; Pub. L. 106–224, title I, § 132(b), June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 386; Pub. L. 110–234, title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1405; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2167; Pub. L. 115–334, title XI, § 11119, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4926.)