- A. A marketing order or marketing agreement applies to all producers and shippers included under the terms of the order or agreement.
B. A marketing order or marketing agreement may:
- 1. Provide for establishing standards for the quality, condition, size or maturity of a commodity marketed in or shipped outside this state. Standards shall not be less than the standards provided by articles 2 and 4 of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to those articles.
- 2. Provide for establishing, and verifying compliance with, food safety standards.
- 3. Provide for plans to conduct programs for advertising and sales promotion.
- 4. Provide for research studies to improve production, distribution and marketing.
- 5. Provide for educational programs designed to inform producers and shippers about quality improvement or about practices, procedures and methods used in production, processing and marketing.
- 6. Provide for research and educational programs concerning health, food, nutritional, therapeutic and dietetic qualities or for developing new food products or new uses for agricultural products.
- 7. Provide programs to control and eradicate insects, disease and parasites.
- 8. Provide for establishing and regulating the use of an official brand, trade name or label.
- 9. Provide programs to gather and disseminate weather data to producers.
- 10. Provide for developing and funding programs, jointly or cooperatively, with public or private organizations, including funding marketing information services.
- 11. Authorize persons to participate in hearings regarding agricultural chemicals that are used by the affected commodity.