For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGRICULTURAL PROCESSING PLANT. A facility used for the cooking, dehydration, refining, bottling, canning or other treatment of agricultural products which changes the naturally grown product to consumer use. May include warehousing and packaging as secondary uses.
AGRICULTURAL SALES AND SERVICE. A use primarily engaged in the sale or rental of farm tools and implements, feed, grain, tack, animal care products, and farm supplies. This definition includes the sale of large implements, such as tractors and combines, but includes food sales and farm machinery repair services that are accessory to the principal use.
AGRICULTURAL-RELATED INDUSTRY.
(1) PACKAGING PLANTS. May include but are not limited to the following activities: washing, sorting, crating, and other functional operations such as drying, field crushing, or other preparation in which the chemical and physical composition of the agricultural product remains essentially unaltered. Does not include processing activities, or slaughterhouses, animal reduction yards and tallow works.
(2) PROCESSING PLANTS. May include but are not limited to those activities which involve the fermentation or other substantial chemical and physical alteration of the agricultural product. Does not include slaughterhouse or rendering plants.
(3) STORAGE FACILITIES. Includes controlled atmosphere and cold storage warehouses and warehouses for the storage of processed and/or packaged agricultural products.
(Ord. 11-12, passed 12-20-2011)