. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. DAVID FARRIMOND, Cranberry Marketing Committee general manager, is busy these days with details concerning the committee's summer meeting. (CRANBERRIES photo by Carolyn Gilmore) By CAROLYN GILMORE Growers should attend the summer meeting of the Cranberry Marketing Committee and famil- iarize themselves with the amendment process, says David Farrimond, CMC general manager. At this writing, the session was slated for Aug. 24in Madison, Wise. "The committee continues to work toward holding hearings on pro- posed amendments of the
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. DAVID FARRIMOND, Cranberry Marketing Committee general manager, is busy these days with details concerning the committee's summer meeting. (CRANBERRIES photo by Carolyn Gilmore) By CAROLYN GILMORE Growers should attend the summer meeting of the Cranberry Marketing Committee and famil- iarize themselves with the amendment process, says David Farrimond, CMC general manager. At this writing, the session was slated for Aug. 24in Madison, Wise. "The committee continues to work toward holding hearings on pro- posed amendments of the market- ing order, including conversion to a rolling base concept," said Farrimond. The amendment process was initiated five years ago to change the way base quantity is assigned. The Cranberry Marketing Committee, which represents the growing states, administers the Page 18 CRANBERRIES August 1989 provisions of the marketing order. "We are seeking to open up the order a little," Farrimond said. Under new changes proposed for the order, restrictive details con- cerning assignment of base quan- tity would be removed from the order and become part of the rule making process. This would give the committee more latitude in choosing how a rolling base quan- tity would be assigned. The committee could then opt to assign base quantity according to each grower's best average four out of the past six years. Or it could change the formula to another average, such as the best three out of the past five years or the highest six of the past seven years, Farri- mond explained. Also on the agenda for the August meeting is confirmation of the estimates for the 1989 crop. At the March meeting, held in Philadel- phia, the committee predicted a 4,015,000 barrel crop. "The committee has been amaz- ingly accurate in these long range predictions in the past," Farrimond said. Also to be examined is the handler inventory report summary, supply and demand estimates, the annual
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