§ 1068.10 - Producer-handler.

Producer-handler means any person who meets all of the following conditions:

(a) Operates a dairy farm and a distribution plant at which Grade A milk of his own production is processed and packaged, and from which there is route disposition in the marketing area;

(b) Receives no milk or fluid milk products at his plant (or at any distribution facility, including routes, operated by him, an affiliate, or any person who controls or is controlled by him) from the farms of other dairy farmers nor from any other source, except receipts of not more than 50,000 pounds of fluid milk products during the month from pool plants of other handlers or from other order plants;

(c) Receives no nonfluid milk products from any source for use in reconstituting fluid milk products; and

(d) The maintenance, care, and management of the dairy animals and other resources necessary to produce such milk and the processing of such milk are the personal enterprise, and the personal risk, of such person.