Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Orders
Marketing orders and marketing agreements are designed to help stabilize
market conditions for fruit and vegetable products. Marketing orders
and agreements may
- maintain the high quality of produce that is on the market;
- standardize packages and containers;
- regulate the flow of product to market;
- establish reserve pools for storable commodities; and
- authorize production research, marketing research and development,
and advertising.
Presently, there are 36 active marketing agreement and order programs
and an additional program for peanuts, that collect assessment fees
from handlers to cover operation and administrative costs of the
programs. USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) maintains
a summary
of active marketing agreement and order programs. AMS also maintains
an overview of marketing
orders.
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