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Agency Agricultural Marketing Service Acronym AMS Hierarchy Department of Agriculture. Docs Fact Sheets; Regulations URL http://www.ams.usda.gov/ Notes The Agricultural Marketing Service includes six commodity divisions--Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco. The divisions employ specialists who provide standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities. They enforce such Federal Laws as the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and the Federal Seed Act. Subjects AGRICULTURE COMMODITIES MARKETING