In re Azevedo

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

JIM D. PAPPAS, Bankruptcy Judge.

Introduction

Debtor Antonio Helio Azevedo (“Debt- or”), a dairy farmer, purchased livestock feed products from vendor Standlee Hay Company, Inc. (“Creditor”) during the pendency of Debtor’s chapter 121 case. To determine the status and priority of Creditor’s unpaid claim for some of those purchases in the bankruptcy case, now a liquidating chapter 7 case, the Court must decide, as a matter of fact, whether the subject transactions occurred in the ordinary course of business for purposes of § 364(a), and thus qualify as an administrative…