Agricultural Marketing Service
April 6th, 2009 Posted in 123 Triad
The Agricultural Marketing Service includes six commodity programs–Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco. The programs provide standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities.
They enforce such Federal Laws as the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and the Federal Seed Act. AMS commodity programs also oversee marketing agreements and orders, administer research and promotion programs, and purchase commodities for Federal food programs.
For more information, please visit http://www.ams.usda.gov