(1) The owner or operator of any threshing machine or combine used in threshing, combining, or hulling grain or seed,
(2) the owner or operator of any mechanical cornpicker or mechanical cornhusker used in picking or husking corn, and
(3) the owner or operator of any cornsheller used in shelling corn shall have and hold a lien upon such grain, seed, or corn which he or she shall thresh, combine, hull, pick, husk, or shell with such machine or machines to secure the payment to him or her by the owner of such grain, seed, or corn of such charges for such threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling as may be agreed upon or, if no charges are agreed upon, for such charges as may be reasonable for such threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling. Such owner or operator of a threshing machine, combine, mechanical cornpicker, mechanical cornhusker, or cornsheller, so used in threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling grain, seed, or corn, shall file in the office of the county clerk of the county where such threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling was done a notice of such lien, which notice shall designate (a) the name and address and the social security number or federal tax identification number of such owner or operator, (b) the name and address and the social security number or federal tax identification number, if known, of the person for whom the threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling was done, (c) the amount due for such services, (d) the amount of grain, seed, or corn covered by the lien, (e) the place where the grain, seed, or corn is located, and (f) the date on which the threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling was done.
Such notice shall be filed within thirty days after the threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling was done. The failure to include the social security number or federal tax identification number shall not render any filing unperfected. At the time the lien is filed, the lienholder shall send a copy to the person for whom the threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling was done. In the event the person for whom the threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling was done desires to sell or deliver the grain, seed, or corn so threshed, picked, husked, hulled, shelled, or combined to a grain elevator or to any other person, such person desiring to sell or deliver the grain, seed, or corn shall notify the consignee or purchaser that the threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling bill has not been paid, and the lien given in this section on such grain, seed, or corn shall shift therefrom to the purchase price thereof in the hands of the purchaser or consignee above mentioned. In the event the grain, seed, or corn is sold or consigned with the consent or knowledge of the person entitled to a lien thereon, as provided in this section, within thirty days after the date of such threshing, combining, hulling, picking, husking, or shelling, such lien shall not attach to the grain, seed, or corn or to the purchase price thereof unless the person entitled to the lien notifies the purchaser in writing of the lien. The lien may be foreclosed in the manner and form provided for the foreclosure of secured transactions as provided in article 9, Uniform Commercial Code, except that such foreclosure shall be instituted within thirty days after the filing of the lien. The fee for filing, amending, or releasing such lien shall be the same as set forth in section 9-403, Uniform Commercial Code.
