§ 1137.10 - Producer-handler.

(a) Producer-handler means any person who operates a dairy farm and a milk processing plant from which there is route disposition in the marketing area and who:

(1) Receives no fluid milk products during the month from dairy farmers;

(2) Receives no fluid milk products during the month from any other source except by transfer from a pool plant; and

(3) Receives no other source milk for reconstitution into fluid milk products.

(b) Such person must provide proof satisfactory to the market administrator that the care and management of all the dairy animals and other resources necessary to produce the volume of fluid milk products (excluding transfers from pool plants) and the operation of the processing and distribution business is the personal enterprise of and at the personal risk of such person.