Agricultural Marketing Service: Difference between revisions

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These programs provide testing, standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities, and oversee marketing agreements and orders, administer research and promotion programs, and purchase commodities for federal food programs.  The AMS enforces certain federal laws such as the [[Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act]] and the [[Federal Seed Act]].<ref name="iopl" /> The AMS budget is $1.2 billion.<ref name="cato171012" /> It is headquartered in the Jamie L. Whitten Building in [[Washington, D.C.]]

Established in 1939 by [[United States Secretary of Agriculture|Agriculture Secretary]] Henry A. Wallace (later [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]) through the merging and consolidation of various [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA) bureaus and programs, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) was tasked with facilitating fair and efficient marketing of American agricultural products, including food, fiber, and specialty crops both domestically and internationally.<ref name=Overview/><ref name=AllGov1>{{cite web |url=http://www.allgov.com/departments/department-of-agriculture/agricultural-marketing-service?agencyid=7161 |title=Agricultural Marketing Service |website=allgov.com |publisher=AllGov |access-date=July 30, 2021}}</ref>

Most functions of the new Service were later consolidated into the Agricultural Marketing Administration in 1942 before being shifted again several times in the 1940s and 1950s. The agency was once renamed back into the AMS from 1953 to 1965 before becoming the Consumer and Marketing Service. In April 1972, the current structure of the AMS was officially established under the Department of Agriculture. AMS also began enforcing parts of the 1990 [[Organic Foods Production Act of 1990|Organic Foods Production Act]].<ref name=AllGov1/> Over the decades, AMS grew to also support ranchers, importers, exporters, and other agriculture industry groups.<ref name=Overview/>

In 2017, Agriculture Secretary [[Sonny Perdue]] shifted several USDA offices, such as the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) and several program areas from the [[Farm Service Agency]] (FSA), into the Agricultural Marketing Service with the goal of better providing for farmers, ranchers, and producers while improving customer service and efficiency.<ref name=Overview/>