Agricultural use types include the planting, cultivating, harvesting, and storage of grains, hay, or plants commonly grown in the city of Bettendorf or Scott County, or the raising and feeding of livestock or poultry.
A. Horticulture: The growing of horticultural and floricultural specialties, such as flowers, shrubs, or trees, intended for ornamental or landscaping purposes. This definition may include accessory retail sales under certain conditions. Typical uses include wholesale plant nurseries and greenhouses.
B. Crop Production: The raising and harvesting of tree crops, row crops, or field crops on an agricultural or commercial basis. This definition may include accessory retail sales under certain conditions.
C. Animal Production: The raising of animals or production of animal products, such as eggs or dairy products on an agricultural or commercial basis on a site which is also used for crop production or where grazing of natural vegetation is the major feed source, or the raising of animals for recreational or educational use. Typical uses include grazing, ranching, free ranch dairy farming, and poultry farming.
D. Livestock Sales: The use of a site for the temporary confinement and exchange or sale of livestock. Typical uses include sales barns. (Ord. 35-17, 10-17-2017)