Is a truck-mounted operation that removes carrots from the ground, chops them into roughly 1-inch pieces, and then places them into consumer-ready bags before transporting them off the farm for distribution required to register?

The truck-mounted operation is a farm mixed-type facility because it is a farm, but it also
conducts activities outside the “farm” definition that require registration. Removing carrots from
the ground is considered harvesting and makes the operation a primary production farm.
Chopping the carrots into 1-inch pieces is a “manufacturing/processing” activity that is outside
the “farm” definition and triggers the registration requirement. Once chopped, the carrots are not
RACs and therefore placing them in consumer-ready bags is packaging processed food, another
“manufacturing/processing” activity outside of the “farm” definition.