Onions Grown in South Texas; Increased Assessment Rate

Docket Number: AMS-FV-15-0036

Effective: November 27, 2015

 

This rule implements a recommendation from the South Texas Onion Committee (Committee) to increase the assessment rate established for the 2015-16 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.03 to $0.05 per 50-pound equivalent of onions handled under the marketing order (order). The Committee locally administers the order and is comprised of producers and handlers of onions operating within the area of production. Assessments upon onion handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The fiscal period begins August 1 and ends July 31. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

 

Doris Jamieson, Marketing Specialist or Christian D. Nissen

Regional Director, Southeast Marketing Field Office

Marketing Order and Agreement Division

Fruit and Vegetable Program, AMS, USDA

Fax: (863) 291-8614

E-mail: Doris.Jamieson@ams.usda.gov or Christian.Nissen@ams.usda.gov