Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 603 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Division 52 - PEST AND DISEASE CONTROL › Section 603-052-0862 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
Unless the context requires otherwise, the following terms are
				defined as indicated:
(1) "Blackleg"
			 means the disease of crucifer crops and Brassicaceae species caused by the
			 fungi
Leptosphaeria maculans
(Tode ex Fr.) Ces. & de Not
			 or
Plenodomus biglobosus
(Shoemaker & H. Brun).
(2) "Brassicaceae" means any genera and
			 species in the plant family Brassicaceae including, but not limited to, all
			 species of
Brassica
and
Sinapis,
and
Raphanus sativus
and excluding the ornamental genera
Arabis, Erysimum
, and
Iberis.
(3) "Brassica Specialty Seed crop" means
			 crops of the species
Brassica rapa, B. napus
, and
B.
			 juncea
that may cross pollinate with canola and are grown for seed
			 production
.
(4) "Cover
			 crop Brassica" means any member of the Brassicaceae that is grown as a cover
			 crop and is not allowed to flower.
(5) "Crop Year" means the calendar year
			 following the year the permit is issued.
(6) "Department" means the State Department
			 of Agriculture.
(7) "Director"
			 means the Director of the Department or the Director's duly authorized
			 representative.
(8) "Field" means a
			 commercial production area in which the Brassicaceae are planted directly into
			 the ground. A field may include one or more contiguous plots of land managed as
			 a single unit. These plots may be separated by an unimproved farm road, ditch
			 or hedgerow.
(9) "Forage Brassica"
			 means member of the Brassicaceae that is grown for animal/livestock feed and is
			 not allowed to flower.
(10)
"
Isolation Distance
"
means distance between crops
			 to avoid cross pollination between canola and high erucic acid Brassica
			 Specialty Seed crops
.
(11) "Isolation Distance Exception"means the
			 planting of a crop at a distance less than the Isolation Distance established
			 by the Department.
(12) "Isolation
			 Distance Exception Agreement" means an agreement between any Brassica Specialty
			 Seed crop grower and a canola grower to plant in a field that is less than the
			 Isolation Distance. Agreements must be in writing, legally binding on the
			 parties, accepting the risk of not maintaining Isolation Distances and signed
			 by the parties to the agreement.
(13) "Land manager" means any person who is
			 legally responsible for the maintenance, use, and development of resources for
			 a section of land or piece of property.
(14) "Lottery" means a process whose success
			 is governed by chance.
(15)
			 "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, society,
			 association, cooperative, two or more persons having a joint or common
			 interest, or any unit or agency of local, state, or federal
			 government.
(16) "Producer" means
			 any person who is the owner, tenant, or operator of land who has an interest
			 in, and is entitled to receive all or any part of the proceeds from the sale of
			 any commodity produced on that land.
(17) "Protected District Advisory
			 Committee"means a body of industry professionals, businesses and individuals
			 who may advise and counsel the Department on the type of rapeseed species and
			 varieties which may be produced in the protected district.
(18) "Rapeseed"means plants of the species
B. napus, B. rapa
and
B. juncea
grown for the
			 purpose of edible oil production or for inedible oil production
.
(a) "Edible oil production" means rapeseed
			 that has a low erucic acid content and is grown for human or animal
			 consumption. Canola grown for edible oil or livestock feed is a rapeseed that
			 has a low erucic acid content.
(b)
			 "Inedible oil production"means rapeseed that has a high erucic acid content and
			 is grown for industrial uses or biofuels
.
Canola grown for
			 inedible oil production suitable for industrial uses is a rapeseed that has a
			 high erucic acid content.