SECTIONS 57551-57555 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 57551-57555

57551. "Agricultural chemical" means fertilizers, fertilizer
material, lime, chemical compounds, pesticides, pesticide chemicals,
plant regulators, plant amendments, plant food, soil amendments,
herbicides, fungicides, and agricultural chemicals that are applied
to crops or to land that is used for the raising of crops.

57552. "Agricultural seed" means the seed of any domesticated grass
or cereal, of any vegetable, flower, or propagated plant, and of any
legume or other plant which is grown as turf, cover crop, forage
crop, fiber crop, or field crop, and mixtures of the seed.

57553. "Labor" means labor or service performed in the application,
delivery, or preparation of an agricultural chemical or agricultural
seed provided by the seller of the agricultural chemical or
agricultural seed.

57554. "Proceeds" means funds received by the lien debtor from the
sale of the crop on which the agricultural chemical was applied or
for which the agricultural seed was used. "Proceeds" do not include
any of the following:
(a) Deductions for taxes, fees, and assessments.
(b) Funds due or owing to a cooperative association organized and
operating pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 54001).
(c) Funds retained by the cooperative association.
(d) Deductions made pursuant to a court order.

57555. "Reasonable or agreed charges" means the agreed price, if
any, for agricultural chemicals or agricultural seeds sold to the
lien debtor, at the lien debtor's request, and for labor. If there is
no agreed price or a method for determining price which is agreed
upon, "reasonable or agreed charges" means the reasonable value of
the agricultural chemicals and labor or agricultural seeds and labor
as of the date of application, delivery, or preparation.