                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 3.2-300)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Agricultural operation&#8221; means any operation devoted to the bona
fide production of crops, animals, or fowl, including the production of fruits
and vegetables of all kinds, meat, dairy, and poultry products, nuts, tobacco,
nursery, and floral products and the production and harvest of products from
silviculture activity. &#8220;Agricultural operation&#8221; also includes any
operation devoted to the housing of livestock as defined in § 3.2-6500.
		&#8220;Production agriculture and silviculture&#8221; means the bona fide
production or harvesting of agricultural or silvicultural products but does not
include the processing of agricultural or silvicultural products or the above
ground application or storage of sewage sludge.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 384, §§ 3.1-22.28, 3.1-22.29; 1991, c. 293; 1994, c. 779;
2007, c. 444; 2008, c. 860; 2022, c. 487.