Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 40A - Agricultural Land Preservation Program

• Adulterated: means an item is covered by section 34A. See Minnesota Statutes 32D.01
• Agricultural use: means the production of livestock, dairy animals, dairy products, poultry or poultry products, fur-bearing animals, horticultural or nursery stock, fruit, vegetables, forage, grains, timber, trees, or bees and apiary products. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Board: means the Board of Water and Soil Resources. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Cheese: includes all varieties of cheese, cheese spreads, cheese foods, cheese compounds, or processed cheese made or manufactured in whole or in part from milk. See Minnesota Statutes 32D.01
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Minnesota Statutes 32D.01
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• controls: has the meaning given in section 394. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Crop equivalent rating: means a rating that reflects the net economic return per acre of soil when managed for cultivated crops, permanent pasture, or forest, whichever provides the highest net return. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Dairy plant: means any place where a dairy product is manufactured, processed, or handled and includes milk-receiving stations, creameries, cheese factories, condenseries, milk plants, transfer stations, and marketing organizations that purchase milk and cream directly from producers for resale and other establishments, as those terms are used in this chapter and chapters 17, 27, and 31; but does not include any place where dairy products are not processed but sold at wholesale or retail only. See Minnesota Statutes 32D.01
• date of application: means the date the application is determined to be complete by the county. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.10
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Development: means the subdivision and partitioning of land or the construction of residences on land or the conversion to competing land uses. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• District: means a soil and water conservation district. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• domestic animals: include poultry. See Minnesota Statutes 35.01
• estimated market value: has the meaning given in section 273. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Fluid milk products: means yogurt, cream, sour cream, half and half, reconstituted half and half, concentrated milk, concentrated milk products, skim milk, nonfat milk, chocolate flavored milk, chocolate flavored dairy drink, chocolate flavored reconstituted milk, chocolate flavored reconstituted dairy drink, buttermilk, cultured buttermilk, cultured milk, vitamin D milk, reconstituted or recombined milk, reconstituted cream, reconstituted skim milk, homogenized milk, and any other fluid milk product made by the addition of any substance to milk or to any of the fluid milk products enumerated under this subdivision or by rule adopted by the commissioner. See Minnesota Statutes 32D.01
• Forest land: means land that is at least ten percent stocked by trees of any size and capable of producing timber, or of exerting an influence on the climate or on the water regime; land that the trees described above have been removed from to less than ten percent stocking and that has not been developed for other use; and afforested areas. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local government: means a county or municipality. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Metropolitan area: has the meaning given in section 473. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Milk: means the normal lacteal secretion, practically free of colostrum, obtained by the milking of one or more healthy hoofed mammals. See Minnesota Statutes 32D.01
• Municipality: means a statutory or home rule charter city or town. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• preserve: means a preserve created under this chapter. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• rBGH: means a growth hormone intended for use in bovine animals that has been produced through recombinant DNA techniques, described alternately as recombinant bovine somatotropin or rBST. See Minnesota Statutes 32D.01
• Soil survey: means the comprehensive inventory and classification of soil types being conducted by the Minnesota Cooperative Soil Survey. See Minnesota Statutes 40A.02
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.