TITLE 45

LIENS, MORTGAGES AND PLEDGES

CHAPTER 3

LIENS IN CROPS

45-304.  Seed lien. (1) Any person who furnishes seed to a producer to be sown or planted on lands owned, rented or otherwise lawfully occupied by the producer, shall have a lien in the crop or crops produced from the seed for the purchase price of the seed.

(2)  The seed lien shall have priority over any security interest in the same crop, but shall be subordinate to a farm laborer’s lien in the same crop.

(3)  A landlord’s interest in a crop produced on premises which are leased in consideration of a share of the crop is not subject to a seed lien.

History:

[45-304, added 1989, ch. 359, sec. 2, p. 901.]