USDA Announces Actions to Lower Food Prices, Bring Fairness to Farmers, and Promote More Competitive Food Supply Chains

USDA is issuing an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to seek comment on several possible interventions to develop new benchmarks as AMA base prices and approaches to trading when using benchmarks. 

USDA Terminates Cranberry Marketing Order

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is terminating Marketing Order No. 929, which regulates the handling of cranberries grown in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Long Island, New York.

USDA Announces Appointments to the Peanut Standards Board

The 18-member board is comprised of nine producers and nine industry members from peanut production areas in the Southeast, Southwest, and Virginia/Carolina regions of the United States.

USDA Appoints 32 Members to Potatoes USA’s Board of Directors

April 25, 2024 Potatoes USA

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the appointment of 32 members to Potatoes USA’s Board of Directors. The appointees include 30 producer members and two importers, each filling three-year terms that will expire Feb. 28, 2027.