The Organization for Competitive Markets and Heritage Foundation is supporting a pair of bills that have been reintroduced in the Senate to reform commodity check off programs. Companion legislation is being prepared for House introduction. OCM President Mike Weaver says one bill calls for more check off program transparency and the other would make those programs voluntary.
He says the reforms are badly needed so that producers paying into those programs are not having those monies used against them.
Weaver says there is a large amount of support in rural America for these check off changes.
Mike Lee of Utah and Cory Booker of New Jersey are co sponsoring the Senate measures while Representatives Dave Brat of Virginia and Dina Titus of Nevada are carrying the bills that will be introduced in the House.
