### Question
How is the term producer defined?


### Answer
The term **producer** is defined in *7 U.S.C. § 8702* as the following:

> an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing a crop and is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the farm, or would have shared had the crop been produced

#### Citation:
  - *7 U.S.C. § 8702*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 113-AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY SUPPORT PROGRAMS**

