[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 7, Volume 9] [Revised as of January 1, 2005] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 7CFR1001.10] [Page 81] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 1001_MILK IN THE NORTHEAST MARKETING AREA--Table of Contents Subpart_Order Regulating Handling Sec. 1001.10 Producer-handler. Producer-handler means a person who: (a) Operates a dairy farm and a distributing plant from which there is monthly route disposition in the marketing area during the month; (b) Receives milk solely from own farm production or receives milk that is fully subject to the pricing and pooling provisions of this or any other Federal order; (c) Receives at its plant or acquires for route disposition no more than 150,000 pounds of fluid milk products from handlers fully regulated under any Federal order. This limitation shall not apply if the producer-handler's own farm production is less than 150,000 pounds during the month; (d) Disposes of no other source milk as Class I milk except by increasing the nonfat milk solids content of the fluid milk products; and (e) Provides proof satisfactory to the market administrator that the care and management of the dairy animals and other resources necessary to produce all Class I milk handled (excluding receipts from handlers fully regulated under any Federal order) and the processing and packaging operations are the producer-handler's own enterprise and at its own risk.