[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: 7CFR1126.12]

[Page 157]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1126_MILK IN THE SOUTHWEST MARKETING AREA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  1126.12  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.  1126.13; or
    (2) Received by a handler described in Sec.  1000.9(c).
    (b) Producer shall not include:
    (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.  
1126.13(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 the milk is allocated by request to a utilization other than Class 
I; and
    (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.