@article{Pritchard:320527,
      recid = {320527},
      author = {Pritchard, Norris T.},
      title = {The Federal Raisin Marketing Order},
      address = {1964-10},
      number = {1485-2022-797},
      series = {ERS-198},
      pages = {32},
      year = {1964},
      abstract = {Excerpt from the report:  The California raisin industry  has made effective use, during the past 15 years, of the  tools available in the Federal Raisin Marketing Order and  the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 in  improving the economic position of both producers and  packers.  The marketing of raisins is more orderly, and  probably more efficient, than it was prior to 1949.   Through the Order and the efforts of forceful and dedicated  leaders, the industry has achieved some notable successes  in raising prices, reducing market instability, developing  new markets in other countries, improving product quality,  and improving levels of understanding and cooperation  within the industry that are so essential for effective  policy formation and action.  Nevertheless, the industry  could use the Federal Raisin Marketing Order more  effectively.  Some moderate revisions in the Order and in  industry policy, as suggested in this report, could improve  the industry's market and income positions in important  ways.  An immediate attack can be made on the instability  and uncertainty that pervades both the field (unprocessed  raisin) market and the packed raisin market.  The initial  steps that have a potential for more orderly marketing  include (1) establishing the free-tonnage allocation as a  fixed number of tons rather than as a percentage of an  unknown volume of total production, (2) making this  allocation in the mid-summer of each year prior to the time  raisin-grape growers must decide whether to sell to  wineries or to make raisins, and (3) eliminating the  reserve pool.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/320527},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.320527},
}