Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of May 8, 2016
Posted on May 4, 2016
Background information for “Checkoffs Go Dark”
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, May 8, 2016
2017 USDA funding bill, House Ag Appropriations Subcommittee, April 12, 2016
House Appropriations Committee approves 2017 USDA budget
5 U.S.C. Section 552, The Freedom of Information Act, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Ag Marketing Service website for federal commodity checkoffs
Beef checkoff rebellion, Harvest Public Media, January 2015
FOI action by House Ag subcommittee, Capital Press, April 28, 2016
Food Producers ask Congress for lobbying shield, The Guardian, May 2, 2016
1993 and 1997 Farm and Food File columns on soybean and pork checkoff violations:
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