Relating to agriculture; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to establish a livestock development program to recognize and assist county efforts to maintain or expand livestock sectors; modifying the requirements for owners of farmed cervidae to notify the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) of escape; expanding the authority of the commissioner to destroy uncaptured escaped cervidae and requiring owner destruction of wild cervidae found within farmed cervidae confinement areas; clarifying the exclusion of certain grain buyers contracts from agricultural contract requirements; expanding the grain inspection, grading, weighing, sampling and analysis authority of the commissioner of agriculture outside the state; clarifying a certain requirement for use of restricted use pesticides by employees of certified private or licensed noncommercial applicators; prohibiting false statements in applications for registration, licensing, certification or permits, in certain records or reports or in investigation of violations relating to pesticides or agricultural chemicals; modifying certain provisions under the agricultural chemical response and reimbursement law; defining emergency incident and recontamination; limiting the surcharges on license application categories; limiting reimbursements under certain agricultural chemical response and reimbursement account insufficient balance conditions; making the reimbursement percentage the same for all eligible costs and limiting reimbursement for certain subsequent corrective action costs resulting from site recontamination; changing the due date for the annual report by the agricultural chemical response compensation board and the commissioner on the account to the legislature; authorizing and providing for the commissioner to enter into interstate seed potato certification agreements; providing for uniformity with certain federal standards of certain rules of the commissioner under the food law relating to pesticide chemicals, food and color additives, special dietary use, fair packaging and labeling, food and drugs, fishery products, meat and poultry, fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy grade and manufacturing plant standards and containers; temporarily prohibiting the importing of cervidae infected or exposed to chronic wasting disease, authorizing destruction by the commissioner of natural resources for violation; clarifying the definition of county extension work relating to coordination of the work with the university of Minnesota extension service; modifying certain rural finance authority loan programs eligibility criteria; extending general eligibility for the programs to family farm partnerships; reducing the length of time required for beginning farmer loan recipients to participate in a farm management program; expanding the value added agricultural product loan program to the purchase of stock in limited liability companies or partnerships; requiring and providing for the RFA to establish and implement a methane digester loan program to finance systems using manure to produce electricity, establishing a revolving fund for the deposit of loan repayments and appropriating money in the fund to the commissioner of agriculture for the manure digester loan program, specifying borrower eligibility requirements and providing for RFA direct loans or loan participation, specifying interest rate and loan amortization limits and security requirements, authorizing the RFA to impose an application fee, setting the initial fee, requiring crediting of fees received to the revolving fund, specifying certain loan criteria; prohibiting cervidae owners from allowing cervidae to run at large; temporarily prohibiting the commissioner of the pollution control agency (PCA) or county boards from approving permits for the construction of new open air swine basins after a certain date, excepting certain conversions; expanding the definition of grain buyer for regulation purposes; changing a certain prior provision authorizing the city of Bird Island to exchange certain land to local government unit authority; authorizing the northern counties land use coordinating board to initiate a pilot project to promote cooperative efforts among county, state, federal and local government units relating to land use management issues, requiring the office of strategic and long range planning to coordinate the activities of state agencies and the board to solicit cooperation with Canadian officials representing areas contiguous to the region and with organizations representing recreational, agricultural, mining, forestry and tourism interests within the affected boundaries of the board, encouraging participation by federal agencies, specifying certain objectives and requiring a board report to the legislature by a certain date on the status of the project, requiring reimbursement of office costs by the board or participating counties, exempting the agreement from certain limits on contracts and hiring, requiring deposit of reimbursements in the special revenue fund for use by the office to carry out the agreement; requiring the board of animal health and the commissioner of natural resources in consultation with the cervidae advisory committee and other interested parties to jointly study and make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date on measures to protect domestic and wild cervidae from chronic wasting disease; temporarily waiving a certain rule restricting the sale or distribution of biological products and antigens for products used exclusively for poultry; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to amend certain rules to add Grecian foxglove (digitalis lanata) to the list of secondary noxious weeds; transferring the remaining balance in the shared savings loan program revolving account dedicated to manure digester loans to the new revolving fund and requiring the deposit of future receipts from manure digester and disaster recovery loans in the revolving fund (Ch. 373, 2002)