Marketing Orders
Overview
Marketing orders and agreements are legal instruments issued by the USDA Secretary that are designed to stabilize market conditions for certain agricultural commodities by regulating the handling of those commodities in interstate or foreign commerce. Read the full overview
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Major Statutes
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act – Ch. 26 Agricultural Adjustment, 7 U.S.C. §§ 601-641
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act – Ch. 26A Agricultural Marketing Agreements, 7 U.S.C. §§ 671-674
Regulations
New Marketing Agreements and Orders: Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts, 7 C.F.R. Parts 900-999
New Marketing Agreements and Orders: Milk, 7 C.F.R. Parts 1000-1199
New Marketing Agreements and Orders: Miscellaneous Commodities, 7 C.F.R. Parts 1200-1291
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: Agriculture
Federal Register Rules Open for Comment
Case Law
Case Law Index for Marketing Orders
Administrative Law Decisions
Office of Administrative Law Judges
USDA National Appeals Division
Center published USDA Judicial Officer’s Decisions
Congressional Research Service Reports
Reports– published and made available by CRS beginning in 2017
Subjects- published by CRS and made available by NALC until 2018:
Agricultural Law Bibliography
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Legal publications on Marketing Orders :
Administrative Law (Federal and State Farm Programs)
Fruits and Vegetables – Perishable Agricultural Commodities
Reference Resources
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
Fruit and Vegetable Programs
Fruit vegetable and Specialty Crop Marketing Orders
How to Create a Marketing Order
Marketing Order Commodity Index
Dairy Programs
Federal Milk Marketing Orders
Federal Milk Marketing Order Hearings
Federal Milk Marketing Order Statistics
Map of Federal Milk Marketing Order Areas
Map of Federal Milk Marketing Order Class I Price Structure
Publication: Impacts of NASS Nonfat Dry Milk on Price and Sales Volume Revisions on Federal Order Prices (2007)
Economic Research Service (ERS)
Dairy Policy Overview
Farm and Commodity Policy Briefing Room
Fruit and Tree Nut Policy Overview
Vegetables and Pulses Policy Overview
Background for 1995 Farm Legislation (Neff, 1995)
Publications: Milk Pricing in the United States (Manchester, 2001)
Agriculture Information Bulletin No. (AIB-761): Milk Pricing in the United States, 2007
Congressional Resources
Reports on Marketing Orders (Government Accountability Office, GAO)
Milk Marketing Orders: Option for Change (GAO, 1988)
The Role of Marketing Orders in Establishing and Maintaining Orderly Market Conditions (GAO, Comptroller General, 1985)
Additional Resources
Marketing Orders Posts (Ag & Food Law Blog)
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Agreements
California Department of Food and Agriculture Marketing Act
California Department of Food and Agriculture Marketing Order Agreements
Agricultural Marketing Resource Center: Overview of Marketing Agreements
Publications
Milk Marketing Orders: Winners and Losers (Chouinard, 2005)
Milk Marketing Orders and Sanitation Regulation: Re-evaluating Marketing Orders’ Welfare Effects (Balagtas, 2004)
Marketing Order Impact on the Organic Sector: Almonds, Kiwifruit, and Winter Pears (Carman, 2004)
Recommended Readings
Effects of Milk Marketing Order Regulation on the Share of Fluid-Grade Milk in the United States, Balagtas et al., 89 Am. J. of Ag. Econ., April, 2007
Federal Marketing Orders for Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts, and Specialty Crops, Powers (ERS, Rep. No. 629, 1990)
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Orders in the United States, 1937-1987, a Review, French (International Society for Horticultural Science, 1988)