Iowa Admin. Code r. 761-400.37 - Raw farm products

A vehicle may be operated with a gross weight of 25 percent in excess of the gross weight for which it is registered when transporting a load of raw farm products or soil fertilizers under Iowa Code section 321.466 except that nothing in this rule shall be construed to allow operation of a special truck on the public highways with a gross weight exceeding the maximum gross weight allowed under Iowa Code section 321.463(6). In addition, the following products are considered raw farm products. This list is not exhaustive and does not exclude other commodities that might be considered raw farm products:

Animals that are dead	Hides
Berries, fresh	Honey, comb or extracted
Blood	Melons
Corn, ear corn including hybrids	Milk, raw
Corn, shelled	Nursery stock
Corn, cobs	Potatoes
Cream, separated	Peat
Eggs, fresh or frozen in shell	Poultry, live
Flax	Saw logs
Flaxseed	Sod
Fodder	Soybeans
Fruit, fresh	Straw, baled or loose
Grain, threshed or unthreshed	Vegetables, fresh
Hair	Wood, cord or stove wood
Hay, baled or loose	Wool

This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code sections 307.12(1) "j," 321.466(4) and 321.466(5).

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Iowa Admin. Code r. 761-400.37

Amended by IAB March 15, 2017/Volume XXXIX, Number 19, effective 4/19/2017 Adopted by IAB May 14, 2025/Volume XLVII, Number 23, effective 6/18/2025