New York Consolidated Laws, Agriculture and Markets Law - AGM § 244. Statement of policy and application of article

2. (a) This article shall not apply to the sale of farm products at auction held at the premises of the owner of said farm products and where said sales do not exceed one sale a year, nor to any agricultural cooperative corporation as defined in subdivision (a) of section one hundred eleven of the cooperative corporations law when receiving, processing, and marketing farm products of its producer members, nor to persons required to file and maintain a mandatory surety under the federal packers and stockyards act with respect to their transactions regulated under that act.

(b) The licensing, bonding and stated grape price provisions of this article shall not apply to:  (i) any person whose annual dealings in farm products do not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars;  or (ii) any agricultural cooperative with respect to the receipt, processing and marketing of grapes or grape products of its producer members or non-members of such cooperative on the basis of their patronage, provided, however, that the annual purchase of grape or grape products from non-members of such cooperative shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars;  or (iii) a charitable not-for-profit organization which receives for distribution donated farm salvage, as defined in section two hundred seventeen of this chapter.