§ 59986 Producer Petition Termination Rules

• •If 40% of the farmers in an area who grow a certain crop sign a petition, the director can stop the marketing program for that crop.
• •The petition must be signed by farmers who grew at least 40% of that crop in the area last season.
• •The marketing program can only be stopped at the end of the crop's selling season.

A group of orange farmers in California want to stop a marketing program that controls how they sell their oranges.

If 40% of the orange farmers in the area who grew at least 40% of last year's oranges sign a petition, the director can end the program. But they have to wait until the end of the orange selling season to do it.