[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53684-53685]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21509]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS-LPS-13-0066]
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 5,
2014, through May 30, 2014, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
(USDA) Farm Service Agency county offices. To trigger a referendum,
56,999 soybean producers needed to complete a valid Request for
Referendum. The total number of soybean producers participating in the
referendum was 355. The number of valid petitions received was 324.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James R. Brow, Research and Promotion
Division, Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program, AMS, USDA, Room 2610-S,
STOP 0251, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-0251;
Telephone 202/720-0633; 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
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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 (79 FR 12037) on March 4, 2014. 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, 2012, and December 31, 2013. Based on USDA data,
there are 569,998 soybean producers in the United States.
A total of 355 producers participated in the Request for
Referendum. Only 324 valid requests for a referendum were completed by
eligible soybean producers. This number does not meet the requisite
number of 56,999. 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................................................. 0
Alaska.................................................. 0
Arizona................................................. 0
Arkansas................................................ 0
California.............................................. 0
Colorado................................................ 0
Connecticut............................................. 0
Delaware................................................ 3
Florida................................................. 0
Georgia................................................. 0
Hawaii.................................................. 0
Idaho................................................... 0
Illinois................................................ 43
Indiana................................................. 48
Iowa.................................................... 56
Kansas.................................................. 6
Kentucky................................................ 2
Louisiana............................................... 0
Maine................................................... 0
Maryland................................................ 1
Massachusetts........................................... 0
Michigan................................................ 10
Minnesota............................................... 25
Mississippi............................................. 0
Missouri................................................ 9
Montana................................................. 0
Nebraska................................................ 2
Nevada.................................................. 0
New Hampshire........................................... 0
New Jersey.............................................. 0
New Mexico.............................................. 0
New York................................................ 1
North Carolina.......................................... 5
North Dakota............................................ 3
Ohio.................................................... 73
Oklahoma................................................ 2
Oregon.................................................. 0
Pennsylvania............................................ 2
Rhode Island............................................ 0
South Carolina.......................................... 0
South Dakota............................................ 17
Tennessee............................................... 0
Texas................................................... 2
Utah.................................................... 0
Vermont................................................. 0
Virginia................................................ 1
Washington.............................................. 0
West Virginia........................................... 7
Wisconsin............................................... 6
Wyoming................................................. 0
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Authority: 7 U.S.C. 6301-6311.
Dated: September 4, 2014.
Rex A. Barnes,
Associate Administrator.
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