Agri-view | Farmers Say Enough to Checkoffs
On the Wisconsin stop of the Enough Is Enough Tour, Farm Action Fund’s Christian Lovell spoke about the misuse of checkoff funds.
On the Wisconsin stop of the Enough Is Enough Tour, Farm Action Fund’s Christian Lovell spoke about the misuse of checkoff funds.
On the Ohio stop of the Enough Is Enough Tour, Farm Action Fund’s Angela Huffman spoke about the need to increase checkoff program transparency.
The Enough Is Enough Tour is calling for checkoff program reform to level the playing field for America’s farmers and ranchers.
Farm groups announced the launch of the Enough Is Enough Tour to call for an end to government policies that favor the largest food industry giants.
This catastrophic legislation would only benefit a few global corporations, said Farm Action Fund’s Joe Maxwell, and must be kept out of the 2023 Farm Bill.
Checkoff reform opponents are “brazenly omitting their shared conflict of interest: [they] are all recipients of checkoff funds,” says Farm Action Fund’s Angela Huffman.