Morning Ag Clips reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service is revising the U.S. Standards for Watermelon to provide a common language for trade by establishing a total tolerance for anthracnose and decay in the U.S. No. 1 and U.S. No. 2 grades.
The revisions were published in the Federal Register on August 19, 2021, and become effective on September 20, 2021.
Copies of the current U.S. Standards for Grades of Watermelon are available on the AMS website.
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