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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE

SPECIALTY CROPS PROGRAM

MARKETING AGREEMENT REGULATING THE HANDLING OF PISTACHIOS 

PRODUCED IN THE STATES OF CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO

The parties hereto, in Order to effectuate the declared policy of the Agricultural 

Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended (7 U.S.C. 601-674, the “Act”), and in 

accordance with the applicable rules of practice and procedure effective thereunder (7 CFR Part 

900), desire to enter into this Agreement regulating the handling of pistachios produced in the 

states of California, Arizona and New Mexico; and each party hereto agrees that such handling 

shall, from the effective date of this Marketing Agreement, be in conformity to, and in 

compliance with, the provisions of said Marketing Agreement.

The provisions of sections 983.1-983.92, inclusive, of the Order annexed to and made a 

part of the decision of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) with respect to a proposed 

Marketing Agreement and Order regulating the handling of pistachios produced in California, 

Arizona and New Mexico, plus the following additional provisions shall be, and the same hereby 

are, the terms and conditions hereof; and the specified provisions of said annexed Order are 

hereby incorporated into this Marketing Agreement as if set forth in full herein.

§ 983.93 Counterparts.

Handlers may sign an Agreement with the Secretary indicating their support for the 

Marketing Order. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts by each handler. If 

fifty percent of the handlers, weighted by the volume of pistachios handled during a 

representative period, enter into such an Agreement, then a Marketing Agreement shall exist for 

the Pistachio Marketing Order.

§ 983.94 Additional Parties.

After the Marketing Order becomes effective, any handler may become a party to the 

Marketing Agreement if a counterpart is executed by him or her and delivered to the Secretary.

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§ 983.95 Order with Marketing Agreement.

Each signatory handler hereby requests the Secretary to issue, pursuant to the Act, an 

Order providing for regulating the handling of pistachios in the same manner as is provided for 

in this Agreement. The undersigned hereby authorizes the Deputy Administrator, Specialty 

Crops Program, Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, to 

correct any typographical errors which may have been made in this Marketing Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the contracting parties, acting under the provisions of the Act, for the purpose 

and subject to the limitations therein contained, and not otherwise, have hereto set their respective signatures 

and seals.

 BY: 

Firm Name Signature*

 

Mailing Address Title

(Corporate Seal; in none, so state)

 

 Date of Execution

During the period from through , the firm named herein 

handled pounds of pistachios that were produced in the designated production area.

* If one of the contracting parties to this Agreement is a corporation, my signature constitutes certification 

 that I have the power granted to me by the Board of Directors to bind this corporation to the Marketing 

 Agreement.

The making of any false statements or representations in any matter within the jurisdiction of any agency of the United States, knowing it to be 

false, is a violation of title 18, section 1001 of the United States Code, which provides for a fine or imprisonment, or both.

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