Tenant
Tenant means a person usually called a cash tenant, fixed-rent tenant, or standing rent tenant who rents land from another for a fixed amount of cash or a fixed amount of a commodity to be paid as rent; or a person (other than a sharecropper) usually called a share tenant who rents land from another person and pays as rent a share of the crops or proceeds therefrom. A tenant shall not be considered the farm operator unless the tenant is determined to be the operator pursuant to this part and 7 CFR part 718.
Source
7 CFR § 12.2
Scoping language
General. The following definitions shall be applicable for the purposes of this part: