Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part V - Bureau of Plant Industry › Chapter 130c - SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 130c.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Act
-The Sustainable Agriculture Act
					 (3 P.
					 S. §
											§
											2101-2117).
Agricultural activity or farming
-The
					 commercial production of agricultural crops, livestock or livestock products,
					 poultry products, milk or dairy products or fruits and other horticultural
					 products.
Alternative crop
-Crops not normally grown
					 on an annual or rotational basis in this Commonwealth. The term may include
					 crops used to replenish soil nutrients, crops used for animal or human
					 consumption or crops used to reduce reliance on fuel, agricultural chemicals or
					 synthetic fertilizer.
Applicant
-A farm enterprise applying for a
					 loan or grant.
Beneficial insects
-Insects which, during
					 their life cycle, are effective pollinators of plants, are parasites or
					 predators of pests, or are otherwise beneficial to farming.
Board
-The Board of Sustainable
					 Agriculture.
Corporate farm
-A corporation formed for
					 the purpose of engaging in agricultural activity or farming which is not a
					 family farm corporation.
Creditworthy
-The ability to pay debts as
					 they become due, to offer sufficient security and collateral and having no
					 history of any previous default on loans specified in §
										130c.14(g) 
					 (relating to general conditions).
Defoliant
-A substance or mixture of
					 substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant,
					 with or without causing abscission.
Department
-The Department of Agriculture
					 of the Commonwealth.
Desiccant
-Any substance or mixture of
					 substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant
					 tissue.
Executive Director
-The person appointed by
					 the Secretary to advise the Board.
Family farm corporation
-A corporation
					 formed for the purpose of farming in which the majority of the voting stock is
					 held by and the majority of the stockholders are natural persons or their
					 spouses or other persons related to the natural persons or their spouses and at
					 least one of the majority stockholders is residing on or actively operating or
					 managing the farm and none of the stockholders of which are
					 corporations.
Family farm partnership
-A general
					 partnership entered into for the purpose of farming, having no more than three
					 unrelated members and having at least one member residing on or actively
					 operating or managing the farm.
Farm enterprise
-A natural person, family
					 farm corporation, family farm partnership engaged in farming or a corporate
					 farm or nonprofit educational institution.
Farmland
-Land in this Commonwealth that is
					 capable of supporting the commercial production of agricultural crops,
					 livestock or livestock products, poultry products, milk or dairy products,
					 fruit or other horticultural products.
Fund
-A fund created by section 7 of the
					 act (3 P. S. §
											2107) and
					 established by the Department which shall receive all revenues and
					 appropriations, allowed under the act. The Fund shall pay all costs, except
					 administrative expenses, related to the Program. The Funds shall also contain
					 the revolving loan account created by section 9 of the act (3 P. S. §
											2109).
Individual
-A natural person, meaning a
					 single person as distinguished from a group or class, and as distinguished from
					 a partnership, corporation or association.
Nonprofit educational institution
-A
					 State-owned or State-related college or university in this Commonwealth or a
					 nonprofit organization, association or group in this Commonwealth which:
(i) Has demonstrated a capacity to conduct
				  agricultural research or education programs.
(ii) Has experience in research or education
				  in sustainable agricultural practices.
(iii) Qualifies as a nonprofit organization
				  under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (
				  26 U.S.C.A. §
											501(c) ).
Pest
-An insect, rodent, nematode, fungus,
					 weed or any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus,
					 bacteria or other microorganism (except viruses, bacteria, or other
					 microorganisms on or in living man or other living animals) which the
					 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency declares to be a pest
					 under section 25(c)(1) of the Federal, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1947 (
					 7 U.S.C.A. §
											136w(1).
Pesticide
-An insecticide or herbicide
					 having the following characteristics:
(i) A substance or mixture of substances
				  intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating a pest.
(ii) A substance or mixture of substances
				  intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.
Plant regulator
-A substance or mixture of
					 substances intended, through physiological action, for accelerating or altering
					 the behavior of plants or the produce thereof. The term does not include
					 substances to the extent that they are intended as plant soil amendments. The
					 term does not include nutrient mixtures or soil amendments that are commonly
					 known as vitamin-hormone horticultural products, intended for improvement,
					 maintenance, survival, health, and propagation of plants, and as are not for
					 pest destruction and are nontoxic, nonpoisonous in the undiluted packaged
					 concentration.
Program
-The Sustainable Agriculture Loan
					 or Grant Program or the Alternative Crop Grant Program.
Project
-A specific plan set forth on a
					 loan or grant application submitted under the act and this chapter, describing
					 sustainable agriculture or alternative crop practices to be implemented using
					 loan or grant funds received under that application.
Secretary
-The Secretary of Agriculture of
					 the Commonwealth or a designee.
Sustainable agriculture
-An integrated
					 system of plant and animal production practices having a site-specific
					 application that will over the long term:
(i) Satisfy human food and fiber
				  needs.
(ii) Enhance environmental
				  quality and the natural resource base upon which the agricultural economy
				  depends.
(iii) Make the most
				  efficient use of nonrenewable resources and on-farm resources and integrate,
				  where appropriate, natural biological cycles and controls.
(iv) Sustain the economic viability of farm
				  operations.
(v) Enhance the quality
				  of life for farmers and society as a whole.