[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1001.12]

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                          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.  1001.12  Producer.

    (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, producer 
means any person who produces milk approved by a duly constituted 
regulatory agency for fluid consumption as Grade A milk and whose milk 
(or components of milk) is:
    (1) Received at a pool plant directly from the producer or diverted 
by the plant operator in accordance with Sec.  1001.13; or
    (2) Received by a handler described in Sec.  1000.9(c).
    (b) Producer shall not include a dairy farmer described in 
paragraphs (b)(1) through (6) of this section. A dairy farmer described 
in paragraphs (b)(5) or (6) of this section shall be known as a dairy 
farmer for other markets.
    (1) A producer-handler as defined in any Federal order;
    (2) A dairy farmer whose milk is received at an exempt plant, 
excluding producer milk diverted to the exempt plant pursuant to Sec.  
1001.13(d);
    (3) A dairy farmer whose milk is received by diversion at a pool 
plant from a handler regulated under another Federal order if the other 
Federal order designates the dairy farmer as a producer under that order 
and that milk is allocated by request to a utilization other than Class 
I;
    (4) A dairy farmer whose milk is reported as diverted to a plant 
fully regulated under another Federal order with respect to that portion 
of the milk so diverted that is assigned to Class I under the provisions 
of such other order;
    (5) For any month of December through June, any dairy farmer whose 
milk is received at a pool plant or by a cooperative association handler 
described in Sec.  1000.9(c) if the pool plant operator or the 
cooperative association caused milk from the same farm to be delivered 
to any plant as other than producer milk, as defined under the order in 
this part or any other Federal milk order, during the same month, either 
of the 2 preceding months, or during any of the preceding months of July 
through November; and
    (6) For any month of July through November, any dairy farmer whose

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milk is received at a pool plant or by a cooperative association handler 
described in Sec.  1000.9(c) if the pool plant operator or the 
cooperative association caused milk from the same farm to be delivered 
to any plant as other than producer milk, as defined under the order in 
this part or any other Federal milk order, during the same month.