“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. 30June 21, 1941, ch. 214, § 955 Stat. 256Dec. 23, 1944, ch. 713, § 458 Stat. 919Aug. 25, 1949, ch. 512, § 963 Stat. 665Pub. L. 96–365, title I, § 11194 Stat. 1319Pub. L. 102–237, title VI, § 601(6)105 Stat. 1878Pub. L. 103–354, title I, § 119(f)(3)108 Stat. 3208Pub. L. 106–224, title I, § 132(b)114 Stat. 386Pub. L. 110–234, title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B)122 Stat. 1405Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a)122 Stat. 1664Pub. L. 115–334, title XI, § 11119132 Stat. 4926(, title V, § 518, as added , ; amended , ; , ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B), , , 2167; , , .)
Editorial Notes
Codification
Pub. L. 110–234Pub. L. 110–246Pub. L. 110–234section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246 and made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by were repealed by .
Prior Provisions
act Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 51852 Stat. 77section 1519 of this titleact June 21, 1941, ch. 214, § 955 Stat. 256A former section 1518, , , was transferred to at the time of the renumbering of such section 518 of act , as section 519 by , .
Amendments
Pub. L. 115–3342018— inserted “hemp,” before “aquacultural species”.
Pub. L. 110–246, § 12033(c)(2)(B)2008—, substituted “this subchapter” for “this chapter”.
Pub. L. 106–224section 1508 of this title2000— struck out “livestock and” before “stored grain” and “under subsection (a) or (m) of ” after “by the Board”.
Pub. L. 103–3541994— substituted “(m)” for “(k)” after “subsection (a) or”.
Pub. L. 102–2371991— substituted “subsection (a) or (k)” for “subsection (a) or (i)”.
Pub. L. 96–365section 1508 of this title1980— extended definition of “agricultural commodity” to include tomatoes, grain sorghum, sunflowers, raisins, oranges, sweet corn, dry peas, freezing and canning peas, forage, apples, grapes, nursery crops, and aquacultural species as illustrated but not limited, excluded livestock and stored grain, substituted “sugar cane” for “sugarcane”, and inserted reference to subsec. (i) of .
1949—Act , amended section to correct a clerical error in citation of “subsection (a) of section 1508”.
1944—Act , increased scope of definition of “agricultural commodity” from “wheat or cotton” to include all crops now set out.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 2008 Amendment
Pub. L. 110–234Pub. L. 110–246Pub. L. 110–234section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246section 8701 of this titleAmendment of this section and repeal of by effective , the date of enactment of , see , set out as an Effective Date note under .
Effective Date of 2000 Amendment
Pub. L. 106–224section 171(b)(1)(A) of Pub. L. 106–224section 1501 of this titleAmendment by effective , see , set out as a note under .
Effective Date of 1994 Amendment
Pub. L. 103–3547 U.S.C. 1501section 120 of Pub. L. 103–354section 1502 of this titleAmendment by effective , and applicable to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act ( et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in effect on the day before , to continue to apply with respect to 1994 crop year, see , set out as a note under .
Effective Date of 1980 Amendment
Pub. L. 96–365section 112 of Pub. L. 96–365section 1504 of this titleAmendment by effective , see , set out as a note under .