Also known as: husbandries · husbandman · husbandmen · husbandria · farming · agriculture · cultivation
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The practice of cultivating the soil, raising crops, and breeding livestock for food or other agricultural products. It encompasses the systematic management of farming operations to sustain productivity.
Henry Harrison cultivates marijuana plants on his small plot in compliance with state law. Federal agents seize the crop under a nationwide scheme targeting drug trafficking. The court aggregates the economic effects of such intrastate husbandry to uphold the federal prohibition.
Helena Hoffman purchases livestock from a debtor engaged in farming operations. The secured creditor claims a perfected interest in the animals. Because the buyer acquires farm products directly from the farming operation, the ordinary-course buyer rule does not extinguish the security interest.
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Harper Hill grows wheat on land subject to a security agreement. The creditor argues the wheat constitutes inventory rather than farm products. The court classifies the wheat as farm products because Harper is engaged in a farming operation and the goods are crops grown for sale.
Hector Hernandez buys feed and fertilizer for his cattle herd. A creditor asserts these items fall outside the farm-products category. The court holds the supplies qualify because they are produced and used directly in Hector's ongoing farming operation.
A life tenant clears wooded land for cultivation in accordance with local agricultural practices. The remaindermen object that the change reduces future interests. The court finds the action constitutes good husbandry because any temporary drop in market value is not permanent and does not exhaust the corpus.
Hazel Hoffman runs a live-poultry slaughter operation and resists federal codes governing hours and wages. The court examines whether Congress may impose such rules on her husbandry business as part of a broader regulatory scheme affecting interstate commerce.
Good husbandry permits a life tenant to clear wooded land for cultivation or engage in reforestation when those actions follow local agricultural practices and do not permanently diminish the value of future interests. The standard protects remaindermen by limiting changes that exhaust the corpus or reduce market value beyond temporary transition periods.
Husbandry supplies the farming operation that turns goods into farm products. Crops, livestock, and supplies used or produced in raising, cultivating, or fattening animals qualify when the debtor is engaged in that operation.
No. A buyer in ordinary course takes free of a security interest except when purchasing farm products directly from a person engaged in farming operations. The exception preserves the creditor's interest in goods produced through husbandry.
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