7 CFR § 1032.12 - Producer.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s1032.12"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "7 CFR § 1032.12 - Producer."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "1032.12"
section_name: "Producer."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MILK), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
part_number: "1032"
part_name: "MILK IN THE CENTRAL MARKETING AREA"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 601-674, and 7253."
regulatory_source: "64 FR 47985, Sept. 1, 1999, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1032"
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# 1032.12 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 § 1032.13; or (2) Received by a handler described in § 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 § 1032.13(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; 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.