The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) awarded the designation of the Southeast Texas area to Midsouth Grain Inspection, Memphis, Tennessee, effective March 1, 2025. The opportunity for designation applications and comments was published in the Federal Register, 89 FR 58327, on July 18, 2024.
Midsouth has been a designated official agency for over 45 years. The agency currently provides official services in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Midsouth also participates in a cooperative service agreement with the USDA to provide official services under the Agricultural Marketing Act (AMA).
As of March 1, 2025, Midsouth will be the designated official agency for the following counties in the Southeast Texas area: Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron, Chambers, Colorado, Dimmit, Duval, Fort Bend, Galveston, Goliad, Harris, Hidalgo, Jackson, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kennedy, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, Matagorda, McMullen, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Victoria, Waller, Webb, Wharton, Willacy, and Zapata. Contact information for Midsouth can be found on the AMS website.
For more information, contact Andrew Ping, Federal Grain Inspection Service Associate Deputy Administrator at andrew.ping@usda.gov.
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