Fruit and vegetable growers can learn about the protections that the federal Perishable Agriculture Commodities Act offers them during seminars sponsored by the Washington Growers Clearing House Association and other state commodity groups. The seminars promise to tell growers everything they ever needed to know about PACA and the Washington State Commission Merchants Act. PACA establishes a code of fair trading practices covering the marketing of fruits and vegetables in the United States and overseas. It protects growers, shippers, distributors, retailers, and others who deal in those commodities by prohibiting unfair and fraudulent practices. Dan Kelly, assistant manager of the […]