Millet marketing ballot set

    Colorado’s millet producers will decide whether funds for marketing and research will be raised through a check-off program. Producers will cast ballots in August.
    Following a public hearing in Akron on June 22, Commissioner of Agriculture Don Brown announced there will be a referendum of Colorado millet producers to determine whether there should be a millet marketing order.
    Referendum ballots will be mailed Aug. 9 and the referendum voting period will last through Aug. 31.
    A market order allows producers of a specific commodity such as millet to work together to solve marketing problems and conduct research. Market orders provide the structure and resources for programs that farmers could not do alone.

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