# Agriculture (GAG)

## Title 10. Promotion and Identification of Agricultural Products

### Subtitle 2. Discrimination Against Agricultural Marketing Associations

#### Section 10-201

No buyer, handler, distributor, dealer, or agent, who purchases or contracts to purchase, from a producer field and livestock products produced on a farm may:

(1) Use duress against, coerce, or boycott any producer of raw agricultural products in the exercise of his right to join and belong to a cooperative agricultural marketing association; or

(2) Discriminate against a producer of raw agricultural products, solely by reason of the producer's membership in or marketing contract with a cooperative agricultural marketing association.

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Md. Code Ann., Agric. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)