The secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture or the Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. Sec. 1621 et seq.), or both, to develop projects or programs that are designed to improve, expand, and correlate the work of both agencies in any of the following:

If a cooperative agreement related to federal-state cooperative market news services, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 58231, is not in effect in the state, the secretary may define grape-pricing districts in the state.

The director may also enter into agreements with federal administrative committees established by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States pursuant to the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 246), with advisory boards and program committees which are established by the director pursuant to Chapters 1 (commencing with Section 58601) and 2 (commencing with Section 59501), Part 2 of this division, with producers’ cooperative marketing associations and other producer or handler organizations to assist financially or otherwise in the development of such projects or programs and in putting the results of such projects or programs into operation within this state.

The director may receive and pay out money for the purposes which are mentioned in this article.