The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a referendum Sept. 21 through Oct. 13, 2020, for south Texas onion producers to vote on whether to continue their federal marketing order. Producers who produced onions within south Texas during the period of Aug. 1, 2018, through July 31, 2019, are eligible to vote. Notice of the referendum was published in the Federal Register on Aug. 8, 2020.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it is investing $6.5 million to strengthen and explore new market opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reopening the comment period to the interim final rule that was published on Oct. 31, 2019 and established the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program. The reopening will provide an additional 30 days for interested persons to comment on the IFR.