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More than 100 farmer, rancher, consumer and labor organizations are pleading with the US House Committee on Appropriations to reconsider allowing the USDA
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.
A coalition of 102 farmer, rancher, consumer, labor, farmworker, and faith organizations sent a letter to House Appropriations Committee leaders Tuesday urging the committee to remove a policy rider from the fiscal year 2024 Agriculture.
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.