10. Department of Agriculture · Minor
Reject any return of commodity volume controls
Printed page 306 10. Department of Agriculture
“Further, the USDA should reject any effort to bring back volume controls to limit supplies of commodities.”
What has happened
- Not started
No effort to bring back volume controls arose for USDA to reject, and USDA took no position of its own. The complete AMS marketing-order docket for the window contains no new volume regulation: the amendments that issued concern committee size and terms (tart cherries, 2025-10-02; raisins, 2025-12-11), borrowing authority (almonds, 2026-03-20) and referendum thresholds and promotion authority (South Texas onions, 2026-01-23). The one surviving volume control the Mandate has in view was administered as usual and loosened rather than tightened: on 2025-06-12 AMS *increased* the salable quantity and allotment percentage for Class 3 (Native) spearmint oil in the Far West. Cluster I (marketing orders and checkoff programs) in `docs/research/ch-10.md`, round 3 ticket 09 batch 09c, records the queries.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- A boundary call: a preventive “reject any effort” ask with no triggering event. Read here as not started — the administration took no action either way. The alternative reading is done, by analogy to a “preserve” ask, which is done while the state of the world the Quote wants obtains. It is not marked Already true, because that flag is for asks satisfied before the window, and this one is a standing instruction rather than a condition.
- The Mandate itself notes “there are few active volume controls”; spearmint oil is the live example and it predates the window.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- marketing order volume controls
- ID
- 792