Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 2 - AGRICULTURE (§§ 2-1-101 — 2-40-1305) › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 2-1-101 — 2-11-107) › Chapter 7 - FARM MEDIATION (§§ 2-7-101 — 2-7-310) › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 2-7-101 — 2-7-103) › Section 2-7-102 - Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
(A)
"Action" means a court action or legal recourse to the courts of the State of Arkansas by a creditor against a farmer for payment of a debt, to enforce or foreclose a security interest, lien, or mortgage, or to repossess or declare a creditor's interest in agricultural property.
(B)
"Action" includes, but is not limited to, garnishment, replevin, foreclosure, execution of judgment, and involuntary receivership;
(2)
"Agricultural property" means all of the following:
(A)
Real property that is used principally for farming or ranching;
(B)
Real property that is a farmer's principal place of residence and any land contiguous to the residence;
(C)
Personal property that is used as security to finance farming or ranching; and
(D)
Personal property that is used for farming or ranching;
(3)
"Creditor" means any person who holds a mortgage on agricultural property, who has a lien on or a security interest in agricultural property, or who is a judgment creditor with a judgment against a farmer affecting the farmer's agricultural property;
(4)
"Farmer" means any person who is engaged in farming or ranching, who has at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in outstanding agricultural loans that are secured by real estate, crops, livestock, farm machinery, or other agricultural supplies, and who either:
(A)
Owns or leases a total of fifty (50) acres or more of land that is agricultural property; or
(B)
Has had gross sales of farm products of at least twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in any of the preceding three (3) years;
(5)
"Farming" or "ranching" means the employment or operation of real property for the production of agricultural products including, but not limited to, the following:
(A)
The production or cultivation of agricultural, horticultural, or aquacultural commodities such as field crops, rice, soybeans, cotton, sorghum, corn, wheat, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, nursery stock, ornamental trees, sod, or flowers;
(B)
Animal or poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products, livestock, equine or fur-bearing animals and wildlife, including the raising, breeding, shearing, grazing, or other feeding of these animals;
(C)
Dairy production;
(D)
Viticulture, wine-making, and related activities; and
(E)
On-site storing, handling, and processing incidental to the production of the foregoing agricultural or horticultural products and commodities;
(6)
"Mediation" means the process in which a neutral person or persons intermediate between or among parties for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of their dispute by mutual agreement; and
(7)
"Party" or "parties" means, with respect to the mediation of a dispute affecting a farmer's agricultural property, the farmer, a creditor of the farmer, and any other person necessary to the resolution of a dispute or an action.
Acts 1989, No. 829, § 2.