# Updates to the Popcorn Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 2026-03-10 · Effective 2026-04-09 · 91 FR 11441
## Document
- **Document number:** 2026-04694
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 91 FR 11441
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1215
- **Publication date:** 2026-03-10
- **Effective date:** 2026-04-09
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-SC-24-0038
## Abstract

This final rule implements updates to the Popcorn Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order (Order). The updates increase the mandatory assessment rate from 5 cents per hundredweight of popcorn to 6 cents to reflect the present rate, which was administratively increased in 2001 and has been charged of processors ever since. Additionally, subpart C is added to the Order, which prescribes late payment and interest charges on past due assessments.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/10/2026-04694/updates-to-the-popcorn-promotion-research-and-consumer-information-order)
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