Iowa Code » Chapter 570A — AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY DEALER LIEN

Iowa Code § 570A.1

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Agricultural chemical” means a fertilizer or agricultural chemical which is applied to crops or land which is used for the raising of crops, including but not limited to fertilizer as defined in section 200.3, and pesticide as defined in section 206.2. 2. “Agricultural purpose” means a purpose related to the production, harvest, marketing, or transportation of agricultural products by a person who cultivates, plants, propagates or nurtures the agricultural products including agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, and dairy products, livestock, wildlife, poultry, bees, forest products, fish and shellfish, and any other products raised or produced on farms. 3. “Agricultural supply” means an agricultural chemical, seed, feed, or a petroleum product that is used for an agricultural purpose. 4. “Agricultural supply dealer” or “dealer” means a person engaged in the retail sale of agricultural chemicals, seed, feed, or petroleum products used for an agricultural purpose. 5. “Agricultural supply dealer lien” or “lien” means the agricultural supply dealer lien created in section 570A.3. 6. “Certified request” means a request delivered by certified mail or registered certified mail, in person if in writing and signed and dated by the respective parties, or in the manner provided by the Iowa rules of civil procedure for the personal service of original notice. 7. “Farmer” means a person engaged in a business which has an agricultural purpose. 8. “Feed” means a commercial feed, feed ingredient, mineral feed, drug, animal health product, or customer-formula feed which is used for the feeding of livestock, including but not limited to feed as defined in section 198.3. 9. “Financial history” means the record of a person’s current loans, the date of a person’s loans, the amount of the loans, the person’s payment record on the loans, current liens against the person’s property, and the person’s most recent financial statement. 10. “Financial institution” means a bank, credit union, insurance company, mortgage banking company or savings and loan association, industrial loan company, production credit association, farmer’s home administration, or like institution which operates or has a place of business in this state. 11. “Labor” means labor performed in the application, delivery, or preparation of a product defined in subsections 1, 8, 14, and 16. 12. “Letter of credit” means an engagement by a financial institution to honor drafts or other demands for payment. 13. “Livestock” means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species, ostriches, rheas, emus, poultry, or fish or shellfish. 14. “Petroleum product” means a motor fuel or special fuel which is used in the production of crops or livestock, including but not limited to motor fuel as defined in section 452A.2. 15. “Sale on a credit basis” means a transaction in which the purchase price is due on a date after the date of the sale. 16. “Seed” means agricultural seeds which are used in the production of crops, including but not limited to agricultural seed as defined in section 199.1. 84 Acts, ch 1072, §1; 85 Acts, ch 204, §1; 95 Acts, ch 43, §13; 2003 Acts, ch 82, §1, 2 Referred to in §414.23\n\nTue Dec 09 22:00:45 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 570A (17, 0) §570A.2, AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY DEALER LIEN 2

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2009–2022 · leading case: Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. v. Primebank
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Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. v. Primebank (2011) iowa · cites it 4× “3 distinguishes between crop collateral from the sale of petroleum, seed, and chemicals and livestock collateral from feed sales. Section 570A.5(1) and (2) articulate general priority rules that apply to all of those agricultural supplies and to crops and livestock collateral.”
Crooked Creek Corp. v. Primebank & Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. (In Re Crooked Creek Corp.) (2010) ianb · cites it 5× “2 and as defined by Iowa Code § 570A.1(4) [sic]. (b) Oyens Feed did not send, and the Bank did not receive any certified mailings from Oyens Feed as required by Iowa Code § 570A.”
Farmers Cooperative Co. v. Swift Pork Co. (2009) iand · cites it 4× “1(4); defines an “agricultural supply” as including “feed,” Iowa Code § 570A.1(3); and expressly provides that the lien created in § 570A.”
Schley v. Peoples Bank (In re Schley) (2017) ianb · cites it 2× “The parties agree that Debtors are “farmers”; that Waton-wan is an “agricultural supply dealer”; and that the feed that Watonwan supplied is an “agricultural supply;” all as defined in Iowa Code section 570A.1. The parties really only disagree about how to interpret the phrase…”
Farmers Cooperative Co. v. Ernst & Young Inc. (In re Petition of Big Sky Farms Inc.) (2014) ianb “at § 570A.1(6). The certified request must state the amount of the proposed supply purchase, the terms of the sale, and must also include a waiver of confidentiality by the farmer and a fee.”
Amended July 27, 2016 Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. v. Primebank (2016) iowa · cites it 2× “In our 2011 decision, we concluded Oyens Feed was entitled to superpriority in at least some of the sales proceeds of Crooked Creek’s hogs even though it had not followed the statutory certified request procedure for notifying financial institutions of intent to provide a debtor…”
Quality Plus Feeds, Inc. v. Compeer Financial, FLCA (2022) iowactapp · cites it 2× “2 See Iowa Code § 570A.1(8) (2020) (defining “feed” as “a commercial feed, feed ingredient, mineral feed, drug, animal health product, or customer-formula feed which is used for the feeding of livestock, including but not limited to feed as defined in section 198.”
Keast Enterprises Inc. (2020) iasb · cites it 2× “Iowa Code §570A.1(4). Perfecting that lien requires the supplier to file: .”
Keast Enterprises Inc. (2020) iasb · cites it 2× “9308 within thirty-one days after the date that the farmer purchases the agricultural supply.”
— Iowa Code § 570A.1(3) — 2 cases
Farmers Cooperative Co. v. Swift Pork Co. (2009) iand “1(4); defines an “agricultural supply” as including “feed,” Iowa Code § 570A.1(3); and expressly provides that the lien created in § 570A.”
Amended July 27, 2016 Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. v. Primebank (2016) iowa “In our 2011 decision, we concluded Oyens Feed was entitled to superpriority in at least some of the sales proceeds of Crooked Creek’s hogs even though it had not followed the statutory certified request procedure for notifying financial institutions of intent to provide a debtor…”
— Iowa Code § 570A.1(4) — 5 cases
Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. v. Primebank (2011) iowa “3 distinguishes between crop collateral from the sale of petroleum, seed, and chemicals and livestock collateral from feed sales. Section 570A.5(1) and (2) articulate general priority rules that apply to all of those agricultural supplies and to crops and livestock collateral.”
Crooked Creek Corp. v. Primebank & Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. (In Re Crooked Creek Corp.) (2010) ianb “2 and as defined by Iowa Code § 570A.1(4) [sic]. (b) Oyens Feed did not send, and the Bank did not receive any certified mailings from Oyens Feed as required by Iowa Code § 570A.”
Farmers Cooperative Co. v. Swift Pork Co. (2009) iand “1(4); defines an “agricultural supply” as including “feed,” Iowa Code § 570A.1(3); and expressly provides that the lien created in § 570A.”
Keast Enterprises Inc. (2020) iasb “Iowa Code §570A.1(4). Perfecting that lien requires the supplier to file: .”
Keast Enterprises Inc. (2020) iasb “9308 within thirty-one days after the date that the farmer purchases the agricultural supply.”
— Iowa Code § 570A.1(6) — 2 cases
Crooked Creek Corp. v. Primebank & Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. (In Re Crooked Creek Corp.) (2010) ianb “2 and as defined by Iowa Code § 570A.1(4) [sic]. (b) Oyens Feed did not send, and the Bank did not receive any certified mailings from Oyens Feed as required by Iowa Code § 570A.”
Farmers Cooperative Co. v. Ernst & Young Inc. (In re Petition of Big Sky Farms Inc.) (2014) ianb “at § 570A.1(6). The certified request must state the amount of the proposed supply purchase, the terms of the sale, and must also include a waiver of confidentiality by the farmer and a fee.”
— Iowa Code § 570A.1(8) — 1 case
Quality Plus Feeds, Inc. v. Compeer Financial, FLCA (2022) iowactapp “2 See Iowa Code § 570A.1(8) (2020) (defining “feed” as “a commercial feed, feed ingredient, mineral feed, drug, animal health product, or customer-formula feed which is used for the feeding of livestock, including but not limited to feed as defined in section 198.”
— Iowa Code § 570A.1(9) — 1 case
Crooked Creek Corp. v. Primebank & Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. (In Re Crooked Creek Corp.) (2010) ianb “2 and as defined by Iowa Code § 570A.1(4) [sic]. (b) Oyens Feed did not send, and the Bank did not receive any certified mailings from Oyens Feed as required by Iowa Code § 570A.”
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