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Deep Dive: Checkoff

Farmers and ranchers have beef with the checkoff. Food checkoff programs penalize independent producers of food by funneling money to the lobbying and trade organizations that boost the largest corporate producers, according to research featured in this latest edition of FarmSTAND’s Deep Dive series....

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Country-of-Origin Labeling (R-CALF USA v. USDA)

FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) served as lead counsel representing the nation’s largest organization of independent cattle producers, R-CALF USA, and the Cattle Producers of Washington, in a suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The suit alleged that USDA regulations enacted...

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