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76 FR 41048 July 13, 2011 The final rulemaking adopts a definition of the term agricultural commodity, CFTC Rule 1.3(zz), which is necessary for, among other things, the Commission's agricultural swaps rulemaking and the Commission's agricultural commodity speculative position limit rule. The proposed definition includes four categories: 1) The enumerated commodities listed in section 1a of the Act, including such things as wheat, cotton, corn, the soybean complex, livestock, etc.; 2) A general operational definition that covers: "All other commodities that are, or once were, or are derived