Increased Assessment Rates: Walnuts Grown in California

Docket Number: AMS-FV-13-0099
Effective Date: December 24, 2013
 
Summary
This rule increases the assessment rate established for the California Walnut Board (Board) for the 2013-14 and subsequent marketing years from $0.0175 to $0.0189 per kernelweight pound of merchantable walnuts. The Board locally administers the marketing order, which regulates the handling of walnuts grown in California. Assessments upon walnut handlers are used by the Board to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The marketing year begins on September 1 and ends on August 31. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.
 
Contact
Andrea Ricci, Marketing Specialist, or Martin Engeler, Regional Director
California Marketing Field Office, Marketing Order and Agreement Division
Fruit and Vegetable Program, AMS, USDA
Telephone: (559) 487-5901
Fax: (559) 487-5906
 
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