-
Monterey County Vintner and Growers Association Executive Director Rhonda Motil likes to remind people of that as she travels from Los Angeles to New York, selling buyers, trade professionals and wine writers on Monterey County's best "Our wines offer something new, something different," she says. "And we have lots of varietals. We have 42." (Word arrived last week that MCVGA will get a boost in its efforts as one of only 13 California recipients of the USDA Value-Added Producer Grant for agricultural producers and cooperatives via resources made available through the 2008 Farm Bill. The $276,084 grant will impact promotional campaigns between June 2010 and January 2013.)
It also a I lows the fickle Pi not grape to find lots more space to flourish than in most regions, empowering the wo...
-
... (REA), but unlike most such cooperatives, which provide power directly to consumers, appell...Public Utilities Comm'n of California, 345 U.S. 295 , 311 (1953), it nevertheless shift...Cf. Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District v. FPC, 129 U.S. App....
-
Only 1 percent to 2 percent of California's crops are grown organically, but ever-increasing consumer demand makes organic farming the state's fastest-growing agricultural sector. In 2001, farmers in the Golden State planted over 40,000 acres with organic vegetable crops -- about 57 percent of the country's total organic vegetable acreage. And because organic farmers use no traditional pesticides or herbicides, those vegetables often require hand weeding.
Just because a carrot was grown organically doesn't mean it wasn't mass-produced. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average size of California's certified organic farms more than tripled between 1985 and 1991. In 2000, for the first time in the organic movement's history, more organic food was sold through convention...
... through farmer's markets or food cooperatives. "More and more of the large corporations have bee...
-
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or the ``Commission'') is proposing to exempt certain transactions between not-for-profit utilities (entities described in section 201(f) of the Federal Power Act (``FPA'')), and other electric utility cooperatives, from the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'' or ``Act'') and the regulations there under, subject to certain antifraud, anti- manipulation, and recordkeeping conditions. Authority for this exemption is found in section 4(c) of the CEA. The Commission is requesting comment on every aspect of this Notice of Proposed Order (``Notice'').
... on, or referencing, metals, or agricultural commodities or crude oil or gasoline commodities o... of and Demand for Electricity in California, available at http://currentenergy.lbl.gov/ca/inde...
-
... claims against potato grower cooperatives in several states. In re Fresh and Process Potatoe..."persons engaged in the production of agricultural products". If a cooperative agreement includes per... Commission in In re Matter of Central California Lettuce Producers Cooperatives, 90 F.T.C. 18, at 3...
-
... claims against potato grower cooperatives in several states. In re Fresh and Process Potatoe..."persons engaged in the production of agricultural products". If a cooperative agreement includes per... Commission in In re Matter of Central California Lettuce Producers Cooperatives, 90 F.T.C. 18, at 3...
-
...Agricultural commodity. Any crop or other commodity produced, r... For example, if two grape varieties in California are insured under the Catastrophic Risk Protection... offices, banks, warehouses, gins, cooperatives, marketing associations, and accountants. You must...
-
- Saulsbury Orchards and Almond Processing, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Clayton K. Yeutter, * Individually and as Secretary of Agriculture; John Block, Individually and as Former Secretary of Agriculture; the Almond Board of California, an Administrative Agency; Peggy Leong, Individually and as Manager of the Almond Board of California; Pete Yamamoto; Roger Baccigalupi; Steve Easter; Walt Payne; Frank Clement; Sam Lewis, Col., Defendants-Appellees., 917 F.2d 1190 (9th Cir. 1990)
... Secretary of Agriculture under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act. The district court dismis... persons affiliated with agricultural cooperatives and those who are not. In the California almond in...
-
... obstruct Black farmers' success in agricultural enterprises, those groups that are actively workin... here are the Federation of Southern Cooperatives (FSC) and the National Black Farmers Association (... of Sustainability and University of California, Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Plannin...
-
...David Mayfield; and for the California Tomato Grower's Association et al. by Gerald D. Ma...17, most activities of agricultural cooperatives were already exempt from the antitrust laws. Thus,...