Each summer, rural Colorado’s legislators host a tour of some agricultural operations within their districts so legislators further removed from production agriculture can attend, tour, and hear from ag producers in the state. Republican Sens..
Many people support the concept of letting farmers voluntarily invest their own dollars in research and promotion. A smaller, but more vocal subset of people, is passionately opposed to checkoffs.
Critics of commodity checkoffs are making a fresh run at imposing new restrictions on the programs, including a prohibition on contracting research and promotion work out to organizations that lobby Congress or federal agencies.
BILLINGS, Mont. Over the winter months, R-CALF USA hosted and attended several meetings, and numerous sale barns hosted R-CALF USA fundraisers, building momentum and support across the Midwest. “With no shortage of cattle industry.