The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that pear producers in Oregon and Washington voted to continue their marketing order program.

Today, the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service announced the Grain Inspection Advisory Committee’s 2023 summer meeting.  The meeting will be held at the:

AMS National Grain Center
10383 N. Ambassador Drive
Kansas City, Missouri 64153

Aug. 30, 2023, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT, and Aug. 31, 2023, 8:30 a.m. to noon CT. 

In addition to general program updates, agenda topics include the Federal Grain Inspection Services:

Summary Information

• Meeting details, presentations, and voting summary

Certification, Accreditation, and Compliance (CACS)

• Organic Is Climate Smart Agriculture (pdf)

Handling (HS)

• Ion Exchange Filtration: Resins (pdf)

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) will meet to discuss substances petitioned for addition to or deletion from the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List), substances due to sunset from the National List in 2026, and recommendations on organic policies. The meeting will be held in person and broadcast live via Zoom. 

Docket Number: AMS-CN-22-0061
Effective Dates: August 1, 2023

Summary

This rule amends the regulation that defines two of the seven designated spot markets and changing the names of the affected markets. Specifically, market price data for cotton grown in Oklahoma and Kansas are reassigned from the East Texas/Oklahoma spot market to the West Texas spot market. This action also changes the names of these two markets to describe the markets more accurately.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published a final rule in the Federal Register that defines which cotton spot markets the AMS Cotton and Tobacco Program Market News Division will use to report cotton grown in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.