- Mission [1]
- A goal of USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is to continually evolve to meet the changing needs of the U.S. produce
industry. AMS services to the industry are related to price and market information (Market News), fresh and processed product
grading and certification, food procurement for domestic schools and assistance organizations, marketing orders, generic promotion,
and the administration of a fair-trade law (the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act). Hearing from the industry in a unified
voice, that this Committee provides, enables AMS to adjust its user-fee services, which are mostly voluntary (in most cases
not required to be used by industry members) for the best value by customers.
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