Docket Number: AMS-FV-13-0065
Effective: March 5, 2014
Summary
This rule increases the assessment rate established for the Prune Marketing Committee (Committee) for the 2013-14 and subsequent crop years from $0.22 to $0.28 per ton of salable dried prunes handled. The Committee locally administers the marketing order, which regulates the handling of dried prunes grown in California. Assessments upon dried prune handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The crop year begins August 1 and ends July 31. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.
Contact
Jerry L. Simmons, Marketing Specialist, or Martin Engeler, Regional Director
California Marketing Field Office, Fruit and Vegetable Program, AMS, USDA
Telephone: (559) 487-5901
Fax: (559) 487-5906
Supporting Documents