Jimmie Turner (202) 720-8998jimmie.turner@ams.usda.gov
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2010 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that California, Arizona and New Mexico pistachio growers will vote Nov. 1-20, 2010, on whether to continue their federal marketing order.
The marketing order requires that a continuance referendum be held every six years. To be eligible to vote, growers must have produced pistachios in California, Arizona or New Mexico during the period Sept. 1, 2009, through Aug. 31, 2010.
For the order to continue, at least two-thirds of the growers voting in the referendum or growers representing two-thirds of the volume of pistachios represented in the referendum must vote in favor of the order.
Notice of the referendum was published in the Oct. 20, 2010, Federal Register.
AMS will mail ballots and voting instructions to all growers of record. Eligible growers not receiving ballots may request them from Andrea Ricci in writing: USDA, AMS, 2202 Monterey Street, Suite 102B, Fresno, CA 93721-3129; by calling (559) 487-5901; or faxing (559) 487-5906.
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