# § 1518. “Agricultural commodity” defined
“Agricultural commodity”, as used in this subchapter, means wheat, cotton, flax, corn, dry beans, oats, barley, rye, tobacco, rice, peanuts, soybeans, sugar beets, sugar cane, tomatoes, grain sorghum, sunflowers, raisins, oranges, sweet corn, dry peas, freezing and canning peas, forage, apples, grapes, potatoes, timber and forests, nursery crops, citrus, and other fruits and vegetables, nuts, tame hay, native grass, hemp, aquacultural species (including, but not limited to, any species of finfish, mollusk, crustacean, or other aquatic invertebrate, amphibian, reptile, or aquatic plant propagated or reared in a controlled or selected environment), or any other agricultural commodity, excluding stored grain, determined by the Board, or any one or more of such commodities, as the context may indicate.
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**Source Credit**: (Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 518, as added June 21, 1941, ch. 214, § 9, 55 Stat. 256; amended Dec. 23, 1944, ch. 713, § 4, 58 Stat. 919; Aug. 25, 1949, ch. 512, § 9, 63 Stat. 665; Pub. L. 96–365, title I, § 111, Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1319; Pub. L. 102–237, title VI, § 601(6), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1878; Pub. L. 103–354, title I, § 119(f)(3), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3208; Pub. L. 106–224, title I, § 132(b), June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 386; Pub. L. 110–234, title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1405; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2167; Pub. L. 115–334, title XI, § 11119, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4926.)
## Editorial Notes
### Codification
and made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by were repealed by .
### Prior Provisions
A former section 1518, , , was transferred to at the time of the renumbering of such section 518 of act , as section 519 by , .
### Amendments
2018— inserted “hemp,” before “aquacultural species”.
2008—, substituted “this subchapter” for “this chapter”.
2000— struck out “livestock and” before “stored grain” and “under subsection (a) or (m) of ” after “by the Board”.
1994— substituted “(m)” for “(k)” after “subsection (a) or”.
1991— substituted “subsection (a) or (k)” for “subsection (a) or (i)”.
1980— extended definition of “agricultural commodity” to include tomatoes, grain sorghum, sunflowers, raisins, oranges, sweet corn, dry peas, freezing and canning peas, forage, apples, grapes, nursery crops, and aquacultural species as illustrated but not limited, excluded livestock and stored grain, substituted “sugar cane” for “sugarcane”, and inserted reference to subsec. (i) of .
1949—Act , amended section to correct a clerical error in citation of “subsection (a) of section 1508”.
1944—Act , increased scope of definition of “agricultural commodity” from “wheat or cotton” to include all crops now set out.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 2008 Amendment
Amendment of this section and repeal of by effective , the date of enactment of , see , set out as an Effective Date note under .
### Effective Date of 2000 Amendment
Amendment by effective , see , set out as a note under .
### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment
Amendment by effective , and applicable to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act ( et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in effect on the day before , to continue to apply with respect to 1994 crop year, see , set out as a note under .
### Effective Date of 1980 Amendment
Amendment by effective , see , set out as a note under .