Agricultural Marketing Service · Washington, DC United States

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) provides all the news that’s fit to print about commodities. A division of the Department of Agriculture, the AMS covers six commodity programs: cotton, dairy, fruit and vegetables, livestock and seed, poultry, and tobacco. Each program has specialists who standardize, grade, and provide market news services for their respective commodities. They also enforce commodity-related federal laws. Marketing agreements and orders, administration of research and promotion programs, and purchasing for federal food programs also fall under the auspices of the AMS. To read the full description, subscribe now.