Agricultural Marketing Service careers
2 verified openings
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace created the Agricultural Marketing Service in 1939 by folding a stack of separate USDA bureaus into one agency charged with the efficient, fair marketing of American food, fiber, and specialty crops. It still works commodity by commodity, with Dairy, Specialty Crops, Livestock and Poultry, and Cotton and Warehouse each running as its own program alongside the National Organic Program and the Science and Technology Program. AMS enforces the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and the Seed Act, and in 2017 the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration was moved under it.
Grading, inspection, and buying are what put AMS staff around stored and moving crops. Cotton and Warehouse sits among the commodity programs, grain inspection arrived with the 2017 GIPSA move, and Commodity Procurement purchases domestically grown and processed food in volume for USDA nutrition and food aid programs. Agricultural commodity graders and their shift supervisors are the field side of that work.