§ 106-550. Policy as to promotion of use of, and markets for, farm products. - North Carolina Statutes

Article 50.

Promotion of Use and Sale of Agricultural Products.

§ 106‑550.  Policy as to promotion of use of,and markets for, farm products.

It is declared to be in the interest of the public welfare that theNorth Carolina farmers who are producers of livestock, poultry, field crops andother agricultural products, including cattle, sheep, broilers, turkeys,commercial eggs, peanuts, cotton, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peaches, apples,berries, vegetables and other fruits of all kinds, as well as bulbs and flowersand other agricultural products having a domestic or foreign market, shall bepermitted and encouraged to act jointly and in cooperation with growers,handlers, dealers and processors of such products in promoting and stimulating,by advertising and other methods, the increased production, use and sale,domestic and foreign, of any and all of such agricultural commodities. Theprovisions of this Article, however, shall not include the agriculturalproducts of tobacco, strawberries, strawberry plants, porcine animals, orequines, with respect to which separate provisions have been made. (1947, c. 1018, s. 1; 1951, c. 1172, s. 1; 1957, cc.260, 1352; 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1027, s. 1.1; 1991, c. 605, s. 2; 1995,c. 521, s. 1; 1998‑154, s. 2.)