[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 188 (Friday, September 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 51107]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-21027]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS-LP-19-0069]
Results of Soybean Request for Referendum
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The results of the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS)
Request for Referendum indicate that too few soybean producers wanted a
referendum on the Soybean Promotion and Research Order (Order) for one
to be conducted. The Request for Referendum was conducted from May 6,
2019, through May 31, 2019, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
(USDA) Farm Service Agency county offices. To trigger a referendum,
51,501 soybean producers, 10 percent of the total nationwide soybean
producers, needed to complete a valid Request for Referendum. The total
number of soybean producers participating in the referendum was 794.
The number of valid petitions received was 708.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Aswegan, Research and Promotion
Division, Livestock and Poultry Program, AMS, USDA, Room 2610-S, STOP
0251, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-0251; Telephone
(515) 201-5190; Fax (202) 720-1125; or email to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Soybean Promotion, Research,
and Consumer Information Act (Act) (7 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), every 5
years the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) gives soybean producers
the opportunity to request a referendum on the Order. If the Secretary
determines that at least 10 percent of U.S. producers engaged in
growing soybeans (not in excess of one-fifth of which may be producers
in any one State) support the conduct of a referendum, the Secretary
must conduct a referendum within 1 year of that determination. If these
requirements are not met, a referendum is not conducted.
A notice of opportunity to Request a Soybean Referendum was
published in the Federal Register(84 FR 9743) on March 18, 2019. To be
eligible to participate in the Request for Referendum, producers or the
producer entity that they are authorized to represent must provide
supporting documentation showing that they or the producer entity they
represent paid an assessment sometime during the representative period
between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2018. Based on USDA data,
there are 515,008 soybean producers in the United States.
A total of 794 producers participated in the Request for
Referendum. Only 708 valid requests for a referendum were completed by
eligible soybean producers. This number does not meet the requisite
number of 51,501. Therefore, based on the results, a referendum will
not be conducted. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, soybean
producers will be provided another opportunity to request a referendum
in 5 years.
The following are the State-by-State results of the Request for
Referendum:
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State Valid ballots
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Alabama................................................. 1
Alaska.................................................. 0
Arizona................................................. 0
Arkansas................................................ 7
California.............................................. 0
Colorado................................................ 1
Connecticut............................................. 0
Delaware................................................ 3
Florida................................................. 0
Georgia................................................. 1
Hawaii.................................................. 0
Idaho................................................... 0
Illinois................................................ 177
Indiana................................................. 97
Iowa.................................................... 94
Kansas.................................................. 39
Kentucky................................................ 5
Louisiana............................................... 0
Maine................................................... 0
Maryland................................................ 10
Massachusetts........................................... 0
Michigan................................................ 5
Minnesota............................................... 38
Mississippi............................................. 5
Missouri................................................ 31
Montana................................................. 0
Nebraska................................................ 17
Nevada.................................................. 0
New Hampshire........................................... 0
New Jersey.............................................. 0
New Mexico.............................................. 0
New York................................................ 1
North Carolina.......................................... 3
North Dakota............................................ 15
Ohio.................................................... 117
Oklahoma................................................ 0
Oregon.................................................. 0
Pennsylvania............................................ 8
Rhode Island............................................ 0
South Carolina.......................................... 0
South Dakota............................................ 18
Tennessee............................................... 2
Texas................................................... 0
Utah.................................................... 0
Vermont................................................. 0
Virginia................................................ 2
Washington.............................................. 0
West Virginia........................................... 1
Wisconsin............................................... 10
Wyoming................................................. 0
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Authority: 7 U.S.C. 6301-6311.
Dated: September 20, 2019.
Bruce Summers,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2019-21027 Filed 9-26-19; 8:45 am]
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