On February 21, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced that it is their intention to schedule a referendum on the termination petition received from STOP QIP. This petition was filed last fall and did have sufficient signatures to be considered by the Producer Review Board (PRB). The PRB voted on December 17, 2024, to recommend to the Secretary that a referendum be held, but they asked that action be delayed on the referendum until the results of the referendum to reduce the quota differential were known. Those results were released last Friday, and that referendum failed to pass. With this notice, the Department is letting the industry know that it intends to proceed with the termination referendum. The notice estimates that voting will begin in late spring. Read the notice from CDFA here.
Geoff Vanden Heuvel
Director of Regulatory and Economic Affairs
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