Dec 3, 2024USDA seeks nominees for American Pecan Promotion Board
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeks nominees for the American Pecan Promotion Board. Nominees are needed to fill six seats for members with terms beginning Oct. 1, 2025, and ending Sept. 30, 2028.
The deadline for nominations is Feb. 15, 2025, for the following seats:
- Three producer seats representing the Eastern region
- Three importer seats
The Eastern region consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, plus any U.S. state with most of its land mass in the Eastern time zone, and any U.S. territories in the Atlantic Ocean.
The board is made up of 17 industry members including 10 producers and seven importers. To serve on the board, producers and importers must have produced or imported more than 50,000 pounds of in-shell pecans (25,000 pounds of shelled pecans), on average, for four fiscal periods. Producers who produce pecans in more than one region may seek nomination only in the region in which they produce the majority of their pecans.
More information about the board is available on the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) American Pecan Promotion Board webpage or on the board’s website at www.eatpecans.com. For nomination information, contact American Pecan Promotion Board CEO Anne Warren at awarden@eatpecans.com or 817-985-3034 or USDA Marketing Specialist Matthew Collins at Matthewb.Collins@usda.gov
