---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3002"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3002"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3002"
units:
  - "Chapter 63 — Farmer–to–consumer Direct Marketing"
---

# §3002. Definitions


For purposes of this chapter, the term “direct marketing from farmers to consumers” shall mean the marketing of [agricultural commodities](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1) at any marketplace (including, but not limited to, roadside stands, city markets, and vehicles used for house-to-house marketing of [agricultural commodities](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1)) established and maintained for the purpose of enabling farmers to sell (either individually or through a farmers’ organization directly representing the farmers who produced the [commodities](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) being sold) their [agricultural commodities](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1) directly to individual consumers, or organizations representing consumers, in a manner calculated to lower the cost and increase the quality of food to such consumers while providing increased financial returns to the farmers.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–463, § 3, Oct. 8, 1976, 90 Stat. 1982.)