Higher Assessment Rate Proposed for Riverside County Date Handlers
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The rule would raise the assessment paid on domestic dates produced or packed in Riverside County, California, from $0.05 to $0.25 per hundredweight starting with the 2025-2026 crop year. The higher rate would continue until USDA changes, suspends, or ends it. Date producers and handlers in the covered area would face higher per-volume costs that help fund the California Date Administrative Committee. Businesses affected by the marketing order may want to review the cost impact and submit comments by July 20, 2026.
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Key Changes
- Raises the assessment rate from $0.05 to $0.25 per hundredweight
- Applies beginning with the 2025-2026 crop year
- Keeps the new rate in place indefinitely unless USDA changes, suspends, or ends it
Obligations
What this law requires
If the proposed rule is finalized, domestic dates produced or packed in Riverside County, California would be subject to an assessment rate of $0.25 per hundredweight instead of $0.05 per hundredweight beginning with the 2025-2026 crop year.
Written comments on the proposed rule must be received by USDA by July 20, 2026 to be considered in the rulemaking record.