Farm Produce Act
The Dealers in Farm Produce Act, which is Title 22 Chapter 13, Idaho Code, has been repealed and will no longer be in effect after June 30, 2009. The act offered protection to growers and producers from loss of non-payment for farm produce sold through produce dealers.
This means that licensing and bonding for dealers, brokers and commission merchants purchasing farm produce will not be required under Idaho law after June 30th. Here’s David Ogden, Section Manager, Idaho State Department of Agriculture Warehouse Control Program. “If you’re doing one of the functions of the middle-man which is a broker or dealer, you’re buying from a grower and selling to an end user or processing plant, when you’re that middle man, you have to be licensed and bonded…but you’ll no longer have to do that. Much of the industry is built up and works pretty much around people who have solid customer relations and solid supplier/grower relations and in times past if people were dealing with someone new they would ask can I see your license, do you have a bond and they might make the decision as to whether to do business with them or not.”
