E Relating to agriculture; temporarily reducing the maximum interest+ rate under the agricultural shared savings loan program; establishing a +state livestock production promotion policy for family farms; regulating +public meetings held to notify affected residents of pesticide treatments +for adult mosquito control; eliminating the private manure applicator +certification program and modifying certain commercial manure application +requirements; exempting certain home processed and canned foods sold at community +or social events or farmers markets from food handlers or commercial canning +licensing and inspection requirements, requiring the commissioner of +agriculture in cooperation with the commissioner of health and the Minnesota +extension service to attempt to maximize the availability of information and technical +services and support for persons wishing to home process and home can low acid+ and acidified food products; modifying certain eligibility conditions for+ pro rata distribution of aid to county and district agricultural societies and associations, eliminating a certain commissioner of agriculture +certification requirement and modifying certain reporting requirements; eliminating+ the limit on city, town or county contributions to county or district fairs; +modifying certain ethanol producer payments disclosure statement requirements +and requiring annual commissioner reports to the legislature summarizing +aggregated data from plants receiving payments, requiring commissioner payment +of certain producer payments delayed in 2003; modifying certain net worth +requirements for eligibility for certain loans administered by the rural finance +authority (RFA) and increasing certain limits on state participation in the loans; +providing for dairy modernization grants through the commissioner of employment+ and economic development (DEED); requiring the licensing of veterinary +medical center clinicians at the university of Minnesota college of +veterinary medicine treating animals owned by clients of the medical center; excepting +specialty practitioners in hard to fill faculty positions at the college of +veterinary medicine from the license requirement, providing for the issuance of +specialty or temporary faculty veterinary medical center clinician licenses to +the excepted practitioners; providing for the validity of certain +electronic documents and signatures, defining electronic document, electronic +signature and electronic grain warehouse receipt; increasing certain grain +buyers penal bond requirements and modifying certain financial statement +requirements; authorizing grain buyers to use electronic versions of voluntary +extension of credit contracts containing the same information as the written +documents, prohibiting electronic and paper contracts representing the same lot +of grain; authorizing grain warehouse operators to issue electronic versions of+ grain warehouse receipts containing the same information as the paper +versions, prohibiting paper and electronic receipts from representing the same +lot of grain and providing for redemption; eliminating the time limit on +reinstatement of cooperatives after dissolution; modifying the definition of +permanent resident alien for agricultural land ownership purposes and +specifying certain report filing requirements; modifying the definition of family farm +trust for corporate farming purposes and including the trusts in the +definitions of authorized farm corporations, partnerships or limited liability +companies (LLC); clarifying the definition of family farm partnership; +expanding the definition of family farm limited liability company; eliminating a +certain residency requirement relating to shareholders of authorized +livestock farm corporations; limiting nuisance claims against certain agricultural +operations operating according to generally accepted agricultural practices, +defining generally accepted agricultural practices and providing a rebuttable presumption of compliance; creating the crime of exposing domestic +animals to disease, defining domestic animal and imposing a criminal penalty and+ civil liability for violation; prohibiting certain trespass on posted +agricultural land containing domestic animals or livestock, penalty; requiring a commissioner report to the legislature by a certain date on a value +added agriculture program to pay beginning dairy farmers based on the +amount of milk production; repealing certain agricultural society accounting and +books examination duties of the commissioner (je, ja)