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USDA announced that New Start Produce Group LLC satisfied a $33,214 reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).

USDA has imposed sanctions on California Fresh Citrus Company, Porterville, Calif., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).

USDA is terminating Marketing Order No. 929, which regulates the handling of cranberries grown in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Long Island, New York.

USDA has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).

The Secretary of Agriculture will appoint up to 25 individuals, for two-year terms, to succeed members whose terms expire Oct. 28, 2024. 

Specialty Crops Market News reports and data sets began transitioning to My Market News in September 2023.

These expansions and other improvements build on other recent RMA efforts to better serve specialty crop producers and reach a broader group of producers.

U.S. ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar released a statement June 21 that avocado and mango inspections in Mexico would resume after their pause.  

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said June 19 that he asked his foreign ministry to speak with U.S. officials about resuming avocado and mango inspections to get shipments going again.