Relating to agriculture; expanding eligibility under the value added agricultural product processing and marketing grant program to assistance with organizational development, financing and managing new cooperatives and product, business and marketing plans development and defining predesign of facilities for grant eligibility purposes; requiring the commissioner of agriculture in cooperation with the department of trade and economic development (DTED), the university of Minnesota and the board of animal health to establish a pilot program to certify agricultural production methods and agricultural products grown or processed in the state to assure the integrity of claims by participating businesses, authorizing commissioner establishment of guidelines and requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; expanding definition of livestock to bison (buffalo) in for livestock market licensing purposes; increasing the amount of bond required for livestock dealers; modifying the meeting requirements and certain dockage determination duties of the board of grain standards; eliminating the refund of the appeal notice filing fee and a certain grain inspection and weighing fee payment requirement relating to grain in transit; authorizing grants under the shade tree disease control program to replace trees lost to disease or natural disaster; prohibiting tampering with anhydrous ammonia under the fertilizer, soil amendment and plant amendment law, defining anhydrous ammonia and tamper, imposing criminal penalties for violation; specifying certain separate labeling requirements for custom blend specialty fertilizers, requiring certain information to be furnished to customers on invoices or delivery tickets and exempting the fertilizers from registration requirements under certain conditions and from tonnage report requirements; imposing a time limit for submission of requests to the commissioner of agriculture for inspection relating to pesticide applications allegedly damaging crops or vegetation; increasing the maximum amount of reimbursement from the agricultural chemical response and reimbursement account; specifying certain testing requirements for native grass and forb seeds for advertising or sale purposes; clarifying the definition of wholesale produce dealer; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to enter into agreements with local boards of health to delegate grocery or convenience store retail food handlers licensing and inspection duties to the boards upon board request; clarifying the rulemaking authority of the commissioner and updating certain standards relating to pesticides, food and color additives, special dietary use, fair packaging and labeling, food and drugs, fishery products, meat and poultry, fresh fruits and vegetables and identity, quantity and fill of containers to federal rules and regulations under the Minnesota food law; providing for uniformity in meat and poultry inspection requirements; clarifying the conditions for expiration of certain price and contract reporting requirements for packers and stockyards; modifying certain eligibility requirements and maximum loan amounts for certain rural finance authority (RFA) loan programs; clarifying the definition of grain buyer and the status of certain grain buying transactions involving voluntary extension of credit; modifying certain provisions under the grain storage act relating to storage and modifying the liability of warehouse operators, requiring the issuance of warehouse receipts within a certain period of time; modifying certain provisions regulating corporate and partnership farming; providing for family farm trusts and family farm limited liability companies and redefining demonstration corporation as nonprofit corporation; authorizing certain corporations, pension or investment funds, trusts, limited liability companies or limited partnerships to petition the commissioner for an exemption from farming restrictions, requiring the commissioner to annually review exempt entities for continuing qualification determination purposes; authorizing the planting of certain seed potatoes in Clearwater county in calendar year 2000 without certification (Ch. 477, 2000)