Bipartisan Members of Congress Call out USDA’s Ongoing Failure to Publish Dairy Checkoff Reports
The Congressional letter comes after Farm Action and the National Dairy Producers Organization exposed the missing reports in June.
The Congressional letter comes after Farm Action and the National Dairy Producers Organization exposed the missing reports in June.
His misleading return-on-investment studies prop up the legitimacy of the beef checkoff program and protect NCBA’s largest source of funding.
The pork checkoff is supposed to work for the entire industry, but Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says the research it funds only benefits the biggest companies.
Renewed antitrust enforcement will revitalize critical protections for the liberty and welfare of America’s farmers and workers, consumers and small businesses.
Our government is supposed to represent its citizens and look out for our best interests. Instead, it bows to the monied interests of big business lobbyists.
NCBA has rigged the checkoff contracting system to pour ranchers’ dollars into its own pockets.
As the U.S. ag trade deficit is forecast to increase by 45%, our research shows we could balance it by converting less than .5% of farmland to high-value crops.
Contracting with farmer-funded checkoffs gives lobbyists outsized influence, even though they “speak for a small minority of American farmers,” said Farm Action President Angela Huffman.
Our team members are hard at work growing and raising healthy foods for their communities, and they’re excited to share updates from their farms.
Checkoff programs are banned from lobbying, yet checkoff boards are engaging in behavior clearly designed to influence government policy.