FV-89 Marketing Agreement (So. TX Onions)

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APPROVEDOMBNO. 0581-0178

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURALMARKETINGSERVICE
FRUITANDVEGETABLEPROGRAMS
MARKETING AGREEMENT, AS FURTHER AMENDED, REGULATING
THE HANDLING OF ONIONS GROWN IN SOUTH TEXAS

The parties hereto, in order to effectuate the declared policy of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act
of 1937 (the Act), as amended (Sees. 1-19,48 Stat., 31, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 601-674), and in accordance
with the applicable rules of practice and procedure effective thereunder (7 CFR Part 900), desire to enter into
this agreement further amending the marketing agreement regulating the handling of onions grown in
designated counties in South Texas; and each party hereto agrees that such handling shall, from the effective
date of this marketing agreement, be in conformity to, and in compliance with, the provisions of said marketing
agreement as hereby further amended.

The provisions of Sections 959.1 to 959.92, inclusive, of the order as amended and as further amended
by the order annexed to and made a part of the decision of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) with
respect to a proposed marketing agreement and order regulating the handling of onions grown in designated
counties in South Texas, plus the additional provisions hereinafter set forth, shall be, and hereby are, the terms
and conditions hereof; and the specified provisions of said annexed order are hereby incorporated into this
marketing agreement as if set forth in full herein. The additional provisions are as follows:

Section 959.93 Counterparts.
This agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts and when one counterpart is signed by the
Secretary, all such counterparts shall constitute, when taken together, one and the same instrument as if all
signatures were contained in one original.

Section 959.94 Additional

parties.

After the effective date hereof, any handler may become a party to this agreement if a counterpart is
executed by such handler and delivered to the Secretary. This agreement shall take effect as to such new
contracting party at the time such counterpart is delivered to the Secretary, and the benefits, privileges, and
immunities conferred by this agreement shall then be effective as to such new contracting party.

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Section 959.92 Order with Marketing Agreement.
Each signatoryhandlerhereby requeststhe Secretaryto issue,pursuantto the Act, an order providing
for regulatingthe handlingof onionsin the same manneras is providedin thisagreement.

The undersigned hereby authorizes the Deputy Administrator, or Acting Deputy Administrator, Fruit and
Vegetable Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, to correct any
typographical errors which may have been made in this marketing agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the contracting parties, acting under the provisions of the Act, for the purpose
and subject to the limitations therein contained, and not otherwise, have hereto set their respective signatures
and seals.

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By:
(Firm Name)

(Mailing Address)

(Signature)

(Title)

(City, State, and ZIP Code)

(Corporate seal: if none, so state)

(Date of Execution)

If one of the contracting parties to this agreement is a corporation, my signature constitutes certification that I
have the power granted to me by the Board of Directors to bind this corporation to the marketing agreement.

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The following statements are made in accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The authority for requesting this Information to be supplied on
this form is the Agricullural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, Secs. 1-19,48
Stat. 31, as amended, (7 U.S.C. 601-674).
Furnishing the requested Information is necessary for the administration
of the
marketing order program.
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