{"id":610,"date":"2016-05-06T16:27:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/?p=610"},"modified":"2016-05-06T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:27:36","slug":"federal-marketing-order-for-pecans-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/2016\/05\/federal-marketing-order-for-pecans-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Marketing Order for Pecans Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See release from USDA below:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #565656;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">WASHINGTON,\u00a0May 6, 2016\u00a0&#8211; The U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is announcing that pecan growers have voted to establish a Federal marketing order for pecans grown in 15 states.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #565656;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">In a referendum conducted March 9 through March 30, 2016, a majority of producers favored implementation of the marketing order. Of those voting, 77 percent of the producers representing 88 percent of the volume supported the marketing order. \u00a0The marketing order will authorize data collection; research and promotion activities; and regulation of grade, size, quality, pack and containers for pecans grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #565656;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">A council of 17 growers and shellers (handlers) will be nominated by the industry and appointed by the Secretary to administer the marketing order with oversight by AMS. The program will be financed by assessments collected from pecan handlers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #565656;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Notice of the referendum was published in the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #565656;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001oX0l5jmIW7dPTSbyyzEuy24oGSd2JZ3d3b3fgOUOAuggbtRStnnNukfBe-jHgpBgCfSoNosEusnjhm_hHSR-3Qz2MiCvenb_GEGETbjuezg8wF0wzhYqkgpAlsMcyEnqPWH1be6UFC0mWVVUpLbPCZ-LvA8pDw5UJie1tiI6erjFaEugRs7Ru-X5RiuHT92CBF50ffpWOb4XBJRxyd7Ec-YPxvJlcXAlwz-ohCP3oEeboMq6h6vkEJRTBeTWBCjB7HaVQzHh7uxzD1dnHGlk0rpc-0oOriezbh0zyVKZyO6SY_4Rt1Fb5OjrXAKoLKBmMAGRcWMEpXvA3-1TMT7vs-DJMoJo82uOFwD3n7l9TZ3H597H6QFgp7CiKmq4Xumkd7oqZBC3e5lnHj-hEs--HUTTv9fa7XI9-x1c0zsoAutfYWzMwggykBwpgniu9TQDFRuefbtNHaLzUbEwEBu4HGCuupcluLpMB5OQ7hPUomf86Rg1XQieXZV6Qny5jWOWU6x7WwhUmAO4O8xpHANCcg==&amp;c=m819D_q2KUDUZr41rijsykKC_QyHIxZUATHc1mAm-hfDmyVR4R6wCw==&amp;ch=o7lPx090H5iSvuzdCgI8fOr8kpKwkZBUMkbL2ty5tedWX7yD3o0Tvg==\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #155990;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 12pt;text-decoration: none\">Federal Register<\/span>\u00a0on Feb. 29, 2016<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #565656;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">, and ballots were mailed to all known eligible producers. A final rule implementing the marketing order will be published in a future issue of the\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Federal Register<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See release from USDA below: WASHINGTON,\u00a0May 6, 2016\u00a0&#8211; The U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is announcing that pecan growers have voted to establish a Federal marketing order for pecans grown in 15 states. 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