Regulatory roadblock for revising cherry standards - Good Fruit Grower

Regulatory roadblock for revising cherry standards - Good Fruit Grower

Workers size a sample of an incoming grower lot of cherries at a Columbia Fruit Packers facility in Wenatchee, Washington, in 2024. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) Federal marketing orders allow growers and packers to raise assessments to collectively fund promotions or research and to set quality standards.  But the self-regulation of such commodity committees appears to be stalled by the Trump administration’s deregulation mandate. In January,…