Arkansas Farm-Community Alliance has looked at 27 state labeling programs so far. Texas appears to be the oldest, starting in 1974.
Missouri and a bunch of other states began in or around 1985.

Nearly every state we've looked at has a well-publicized state labeling program.

Make Mine Mississippi started recently, in 1999, but was helping 400 companies sell Mississippi-grown products by mid-2000.

State

Name of Label

When Began

Website

Missouri AgriMissouri 1985 http://www.mda.state.mo.us/Market/c2b.htm
Kentucky KDA Country Store http://www.kyagr.com/buyky/index.htm
Illinois Illinois Product http://www.agr.state.il.us/marketing/domestic.html
Tennessee Pick Tennessee Products http://picktnproducts.org/
Oklahoma
Mississippi Make Mine Mississippi 1999 http://www.mdac.state.ms.us/Library/Marketing/MakeMineMississippi.html
Louisiana Buy Louisiana

Certified Cajun

http://www.ldaf.state.la.us/divisions/marketing/default.asp
Texas GO TEXAN (begun previously Taste of Texas begun 1985) 1975 http://www.gotexan.org/
North Carolina Goodness Grows in North Carolina http://www.ncagr.com/markets/gginc/
California Buy California http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/mkt/mkt/buycal.html
Iowa A Taste of Iowa http://www.atasteofiowa.org
Virginia Virginal Grown http://www.vdacs.state.va.us/vagrown/
South Carolina South Carolina Quality http://www.scda.state.sc.us/MktgPromo/mktgpromo.htm
Georgia Georgia. Always in Good Taste

Georgia Grown (produce only)

http://www.agr.state.ga.us/index.html
West Virginia West Virginia Grown http://www.state.wv.us/agriculture/divisions/marketing.html
Minnesota Minnesota Grown http://www.mda.state.mn.us/mngrown/default.htm
Massachusetts MassGrown http://www.state.ma.us/dfa/massgrown/
Michigan Select Michigan http://www.michigan.gov/mda/1,1607,7-125-1570---,00.html
North Dakota Pride of Dakota 1985 http://www.agdepartment.com/podhp.html
Connecticut Connecticut Grown 1986 http://www.state.ct.us/doag/business/ctgrown.htm
Maine Get Real Get Maine http://www.getrealmaine.com
New Mexico New Mexico Taste the Tradition http://nmdaweb.nmsu.edu/MD/Taste_The_Tradition/TTTtablecon.htm
Florida Fresh from Florida 1990 http://www.fl-ag.com/fapc/fapcmiss.htm
New York Pride of New York 1996 http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/AP/PrideOfNY/pride_index.html
Utah Product of Utah http://ag.utah.gov/mktcons/pou.html
Colorado Colorado Proud http://www.ag.state.co.us/mkt/COProud/CO%20Proud%20Program.html
Ohio Ohio Proud 1993 http://www.ohioproud.org
Kansas From the Land of Kansas http://kdoch.state.ks.us/ProgramApp/program_detail_display.jsp?RECNO=996846283102



According to

http://www.mdac.state.ms.us/Library/AgencyInfo/PressReleases/Make%20Mine%20Mississippi.pdf



*Georgia has increased sales of products marked with the Georgia. Always in Good Taste logo by 5%-10%. Georgia program includes 200 companies

* 70% of Tennessee residents surveyed said they would purchase a product with the Pick Tennessee Products logo as long as price and quality were similar

* North Carolina's Goodness Grows in North Carolina program has 700 producer/processors and 350 retailers participating * * Louisiana licenses 432 companies to use its Certified CAJUN



Make Mine Mississippi begun in 1999 had 400 companies by 2000