03/03/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"Do you agree that checkoff funds should only be used in ways that benefit all farmers paying into them?"
"Do you agree that it would be beneficial to make those programs more transparent so that family farmers... can quickly see the budgets and expenditures?"
"Do you agree that it is good to have periodic independent audits of those checkoff programs so there is a fundamental fairness?"
"I was so astonished by this; we don't really have these in New Jersey, that I actually went down to Duplin County to see, firsthand, what was going on."