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  • From: "Ava Devenport" <essenheal AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Fwd: USDA ISSUES PROPOSED VOLUME REGULATION TO ASSIST CRANBERRY INDUST RY
  • Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:48:55 PDT






----- Original Message -----
From: "Unkenholz, Becky" <Becky.Unkenholz AT usda.gov>
To: <newsrelease AT ams.usda.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:01 PM
Subject: USDA ISSUES PROPOSED VOLUME REGULATION TO ASSIST CRANBERRY INDUST
RY


> Release No. 168-00
> George Chartier (202) 720-8998
> george.chartier AT usda.gov
> Billy Cox (202) 720-8998
> billy.cox AT usda.gov
> USDA ISSUES PROPOSED VOLUME REGULATION TO ASSIST CRANBERRY INDUSTRY
> WASHINGTON, May 30, 2000 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has
> announced a proposed rule that would regulate the volume of cranberries to
> be marketed during the 2000-2001 crop year.
> The newly proposed rule offers the industry three options to
> stabilize plummeting prices due to expanded production and mounting
> inventories. The industry's Cranberry Marketing Committee met on March 30
> and recommended a producer allotment of 85 percent for the new season
> beginning Sept. 1. The allotment would establish the quantity of
cranberries
> that handlers may purchase from, or handle for growers.
> USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, which oversees the Cranberry
> Marketing Order, received industry comments following the meeting that
> suggested that the committee's proposal could inequitably affect some
> growers. To address these concerns, AMS developed two additional options
> which also appear in the proposed rule.
> "The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been working closely with
> the cranberry industry to offer a useful range of options for producers to
> consider," said Enrique E. Figueroa, deputy under secretary for marketing
> and regulatory programs. "USDA is encouraging growers and handlers to look
> carefully at the proposal, consider the options, and to submit their
> comments," he said.
> The comment period will officially open with the publication of the
> marketing order proposal in today's Federal Register, and comments will be
> accepted through June 14. Comments should be addressed to the Docket
Clerk,
> AMS Fruit and Vegetable Programs, USDA Room 2525-S, P.O. Box 96456,
> Washington, D.C. 20090-6456; e-mail moab.docketclerk AT usda.gov.
>
> The proposed rule can be viewed at www.ams.usda.gov/fv/moab.html.
>
> The eight-member Cranberry Marketing Committee, appointed by the
> Secretary of Agriculture, oversees the Cranberry Marketing Order that
> regulates shipments of cranberries grown in the States of Massachusetts,
> Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota,
> Oregon, Washington, and Long Island, N.Y.
> Cranberry production in 1999 reached an all-time high of 6.39
> million barrels (one barrel equals 100 pounds of cranberries) 17 percent
> above the previous year and a 377 percent increase since 1960. In the same
> 30 years, harvest acreage has expanded 76 percent and growers have
increased
> their yields 171 percent. Meanwhile, consumer demand for cranberries has
> leveled off, with total U.S. sales peaking in 1994 at 4.7 million barrels
> and dipping to 4.5 million barrels in 1998. Prices have suffered as a
> result. Growers have watched prices decline from a peak level in 1996 of
> $65.90 per barrel to $38.80 per barrel in 1998, and returns for the 1999
> crop year are expected to fall below $30.00, evaporating profits.
>
>
>


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