Marketing orders and agreements

Marketing orders are binding on all handlers of the commodity within the geographic area of regulation once it is approved by a required number of producers (usually two-thirds).

[1] The AMAA was a piece of New Deal era legislation implemented for price stability and essential marketing functions in response to economic pressure faced by small farmers in the 1920s.

The 1996 Farm Bill required the USDA to consolidate the number of federal milk marketing orders and to revise the method by which minimum class prices are determined.

It was created after World War II by the government in order to control raisin prices.

[4] It was the subject of the 2013 and 2015 Supreme Court case Horne v. Department of Agriculture which found it an unconstitutional taking and ended it.