Farm Equipment

93.1. Sales of farm equipment (tractors, tractor implements, combines, seeders, thrashing machines, etc.) to persons engaged in the commercial production of an agricultural product are exempt from consumers sales and service tax. An exemption certificate can be issued by a commercial producer to obtain this exemption.

93.2. The phrase "commercial production of an agricultural product" means a farming operation undertaken for profit by raising crops or livestock. Production of agricultural products begins with the cultivation of land previously cleared for planting of crops or with the purchase or breeding of livestock or domesticated fowl. The production of agricultural products ceases when an agricultural product has been transported to the point where it will be sold by the farmer or processed.

93.3. This exemption does not apply to purchases for use or consumption in the construction of or permanent improvement to real property or to purchases of gasoline or special fuel.