Agricultural Marketing Service November 18, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Domestic Dates Produced or Packed in Riverside County, CA; Increased Assessment Rate
Document Number: 2010-29107
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-11-18
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
This rule increases the assessment rate established for the California Date Administrative Committee (Committee) for the 2010-11 and subsequent crop years from $0.75 to $1.00 per hundredweight of dates handled. The Committee locally administers the marketing order that regulates the handling of dates grown or packed in Riverside County, California. Assessments upon date handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The crop year begins October 1 and ends September 30. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.
Sorghum Promotion and Research Program: Procedures for the Conduct of Referenda
Document Number: 2010-29106
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-11-18
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
The Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 (Act) authorizes a program of promotion, research, and information to be developed through the promulgation of the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order). The Act requires that the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) conduct a referendum among persons subject to assessments who, during a representative period established by the Secretary, have engaged in the production or importation of sorghum. This final rule establishes procedures the Department of Agriculture (USDA) will use in conducting the required referendum as well as future referenda. Eligible persons will be provided the opportunity to vote during a specified period announced by USDA. For the program to continue, it must be approved, with an affirmative vote, by at least a majority of those persons voting who were engaged in the production or importation of sorghum during the representative period.
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