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SF 3219 Senate Long Description

E 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; 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 outside the state; modifying experience requirements to apply to the commissioner for a master aquatic pest control license; 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; 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; modifying certain rural finance authority (RFA) 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; expanding the definition of grain buyer for regulation purposes; temporarily waiving a certain rule restricting the sale or distribution of biological products and antigens for products used exclusively for poultry (ra, ja)